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It wasn't the wedding of the century. Six people in all arrived at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York to watch the young man and woman exchange their vows. Two more had been invited but as they were running late ? and this was before the easy communication of mobiles ? too bad for them.

The very young and very attractive bride was fetching in her suit of midnight blue with a matching hat trimmed with leather ribbons and buckles.

For their honeymoon the groom had chosen a near by hotel where the two celebrated so enthusiastically that they were thrown out of their hotel not long after their arrival. Undaunted Cheap Da'Shawn Hand Jersey , they picked themselves off the sidewalk, registered in another hotel, and continued to celebrate.

In one of his more lucid moment, the groom realized that as much as he adored his wife, she was not exactly a fashion plate. Leather ribbons and buckles were fine in Alabama, and may have won her the award of the most attractive debutant alive Cheap Tracy Walker Jersey , but in New York they were very suggestive of country bumpkin.

"Sweetie, you must do something about those Southern Belle clothes you've got. I'll talk to some of my New York female friends. I'm sure they'll be delighted to put you on the right track. After all, this is New York, and we are on our honeymoon."

"But honeybunch, can we afford it? Don't forget we've already trashed two hotels and our honeymoon has barely started."

"My dear girl," he said indulgently Cheap Kerryon Johnson Jersey , "haven't you ever heard of credit?"

"Credit!" she gasped. "Why my daddy would simply die if he heard me say the word less run around asking for it."

"Baby doll," he answered with a smile. "For a judge he's not a bad sort, your daddy. But when it comes to modern living, your daddy hasn't a clue. Didn't you tell me that he's refused to take out a mortgage on his house because it would put him in debt? I mean to say, it is 1920. Or hasn't he heard?"

"I don't know."

"Look! I absolutely insist! Go out on the town and come back an unflappable New Yorker. We'll be the talk of the town."

And so began the story of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. And their love affair with credit. A love affair, like most love affairs Cheap Frank Ragnow Jersey , that ended in tragedy and tears.

But despite the mark that they have left behind, all too many couples are only too ready to embrace a similar affair, fueled to an even higher pitch by the advent of credit cards.

For them it will be different, they think.

But as the man said, first comes the wedding and the credit card, then comes the honeymoon and the credit card. Then come the bills and the divorce.

Vlady Cheap Austin Bryant Jersey , a Civil Marriage Celebrant, is an author of "The Complete Book of Australian Weddings", "The Small Organisation Handbook", and an ebook "Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle?" which you can see on her website
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Assimilation vs Accumulation
The practice of getting full nourishment from everything in
your life.

Western culture has reached a level of material wealth greater
than at any time in history. We include in this material wealth,
wealth of information as well. Currently Cheap Will Harris Jersey , at the pinnacle of our
ability to manipulate our environment and produce all the things
we need, and many that we don't, it's entirely possibly that many
of our ills are arising as a result of our inability to handle
this incredible glut of input, in all of its forms.

Prior to the recent age, when resources and information were
scarce and hard to come by, we would never think of turning
either of these away. The arrival of this incredible abundance
is relatively recent Cheap Jahlani Tavai Jersey , in the past 50 years or so, with the
refinement of industry and the emergence of the information age
and the Internet. It has come upon us so quickly that many of us
haven't learned or prepared ourselves to handle this new level of
abundance. If indeed it is possible to adapt and prepare
ourselves for the onslaught at all.

We haven't asked ourselves the questions, "How much is enough?"
"What do I value over everything else?" We just cannot say "no"
to available "things" and information that meet our fancy. And,
in some ways, we crave each new thing with the hope that it will
somehow set us free. Consequently, we are literally dying from
over consumption in one form or another.

More than half the US population is now considered "obese Cheap T.J. Hockenson Jersey ," while
people are starving for renewal of "spirit" and "soul" in their
lives and work. People are busier, have less time, and often feel
overwhelmed, surrounded by "too much stuff" and stressed out under
the growing burden of "too much information."

Application

How do we cope with the temptation to consume ourselves into
oblivion? Our proposal is simple. We suggest two th