Countdown

The weeks before our Wedding was so busy and rushed...most nights after I got home from work, and Irvin came over, we either would take something over to our apt., or sit and plan...I remember one night,we were both so tired,..we just sit down on the couch, with the television on, and it was cold, ..my Mother and Father had a wall furnish installed in our hall way wall, the latest thing at that time, up until then, we had used a space heater in the Living Room, and everyone would stand in front of that heater to "warm -up"...well, this wall furnish was sort of like what we have now as central heat, except, actually, it didn't exactly warn the entire house, and it is a good thing, our house was small..the living room was always "toasty warm" on cold nights..anyway, on that night, I think it was turned up on high as we sit there, watching the t.v...(we usually didnt watch much television), too much to do, and too many places to go, but I think that night, we were just too tired to move...we both fell asleep...and Mother said, she kept thinking, we were still watching some show, and thought, that it was getting so hot, til finally she got up, put her robe on, and come in to turn down the furnace, and there we sit, sound asleep in the wee hours of the morning..she woke us up, and Irvin jumped up and still sleepy, seeing the time, said he better be on his way home, he was sure, his Mother would be worried , it being so late or rather early in the morning.....one Saturday, my Mother and I went downtown to buy last minute things, one being my Wedding shoes...I had my Wedding dress made, I was still what we called "skinny", at 89 lbs...It was a sky-blue Taffeta with a "Peter Pan" collar, 3/4 sleeves, small covered buttons to the waist, with a V gathered full skirt, and was what was called then, "Ballerina Length", a popular length those days...now I had decided to wear pink shoes, with a pink hat (the hat, I had already found earlier in the month of January, and back then, your hat and shoes and handbag , we thought had to "match") and I had bought pink gloves to match...another accessory that we wore then, gloves...just watch any movie, made in the 50's and you will see the style of that decade..well, we looked in every store, downtown, and finally we thought, one store left...now, this store was very "high -end", not one we would usually shop at , at all...we went into it, and headed for the shoe department, and in those days, there were many people on the floor, to "wait" on you, " asking , "May I help you", ....we sit down, and I told the salesman, I was looking for pink high heels, and he said , "I have one pair of pink heels", (another thing, in those days, if you couldn't find a color , you wanted in a shoe, you could have a white pair dyed , the color you wanted, which a lot of women did for wedding, especially for Bridesmaids shoes..), which i thought I was going to have to do, but really didn't want to , as there was usually just the 'pumps" ..the only style then , you could dye...he brought out the box of shoes in my size...they were a bit higher than I usually wore, as I wore heels every day to work, and usually on our dates, unless we were just going to the drive-in, etc...but, I loved these shoes, they were BEAUTIFUL, and I was SO tired of looking for shoes...I thought, this is a good sign..my poor Mother was so tired too, and about to just give up,...we were both tired and hungry, as we didn't even stop to have lunch, just a coke , in between looking for those pink shoes.,...the shoes were a perfect match for the hat(which had tiny, little flowers around the front, (looked so much like a Wedding hat), I was so happy, to finally complete my Wedding clothes...when we finally got home, it was early evening...and my Daddy and Irvin were sitting waiting, and having coffee, about to go and look for us..of course, (being men), they thought we should just be able to go into the first store, and find those shoes...
         In the last few days before our wedding, we moved our clothes over to the apt.., and everything else that we needed..I just kept what I needed for work, etc, and slept on the couch in the living room , and Irvin did the same , taking his clothes , except what he would need...we were on the Countdown, counting every day, hour and minute...