Dave C.
Dryer sheet wannabe
My 22-year old Daughter is a U.S. Marine, stationed in Virginia. She joined up three years ago, served 18 months in Japan, and now resides off-base near Fort Lee. She is also a single mother with the most wonderful little girl, Sophia (that would be my granddaughter)! She is planning to marry a Marine Sargent now serving in Iraq. She met him while in Japan, and he is not the father of Sophia.
I am not planning to pick up the tab for the wedding she is beginning to plan. I could understand providing a wedding celebration for a young women leaving her family home for marriage. But this girl has done a lot of living, crossed the globe, joined the military and started her own family.
She is very good at living up to her responsibilities, and I think her wedding is just that, her and her guy's resposibility.
What do you think? Am I pinching pennies (lots of them with her plans), or am I looking at this realistically?
I am not planning to pick up the tab for the wedding she is beginning to plan. I could understand providing a wedding celebration for a young women leaving her family home for marriage. But this girl has done a lot of living, crossed the globe, joined the military and started her own family.
She is very good at living up to her responsibilities, and I think her wedding is just that, her and her guy's resposibility.
What do you think? Am I pinching pennies (lots of them with her plans), or am I looking at this realistically?