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It's amazing what your mind can do when you let it run with something.

Last night before my shower I was thinking about the flowers for the wedding. A family friend is a florist, and it's a foregone conclusion that they'll be doing the flowers. Now, we haven't discussed price or anything with them (in fact, we haven't discussed it at all). But my dad seems to think they'll do it for free.

"No way!" I said. "That's their livelihood. If they want to give us a discount, that's their business. If they bring it up, fine. I'm not going to ask them for free flowers, though."

"Maybe they'll give us the flowers for cost," said my mom.

Blah. (Now, don't go sending me any mail about making sure they want to do it before assuming they will. I'm way ahead of you. In fact, I budgeted the full price for flowers. If they give us a discount, great. If not, it's already budgeted in.)

Anyway, while I was getting ready for my shower, I had a thought. If we put a little ad for them in the program (something along the lines of "Flowers by Friendly Florist - call them at 555-5555") they might be more likely to give us a discount.

But is that tacky? After all, if they did do the flowers for us, and other people liked them, they might want to know where the flowers were done. And I'm not all hung up on tradition and whatnot.

Then my mind took the idea and ran. It was rather amusing, seeing what it could come up with when I let go of the reigns.

Hey! How about getting sponsors for other things, too?

But then the program would be filled with ads. That would look strange.

If you get free stuff, do you care?

No. Hey. Maybe we can give out little programs at the reception, too. "Music by Music Man DJ." "Table decorations by Lynn's Linens."

Yeah, now you're getting the idea. Hey, if athletes do it, why can't you?

Maybe we can put stickers or appliques on all the tuxedos. "Men's' Fashions by Tuxedo Junction."

The bride's dress could be full of stuff. There's lots of room for ads on that train. We could get Kodak in on it, and Sony, and maybe some laundry detergents... Tide or something.

And the limo could be covered in ads like race cars. It might be fun getting into a limo that'' emblazoned with the Oldsmobile logo.

You could get Intel to sponsor the cake. It could be shaped like their logo. An "Intel Inside" cake would be cool.

Yeah. But not Microsoft. People might not want to eat that.

How about getting Bic to sponsor the favors? Everyone could get a neat pen for a favor.

Mabelline could do the make-up.

You know, this entire entry is filled with copyright violations.

Hmm. You're right. No one sue us, ok?

Gotcha. Prenuptial agreement by Lawyers R Us.

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