Kinda creepy!

When I was a child, there was this building used as a mortuary in town. I guess it had been the town mortuary for YEARS. About 15 years ago, they switched the mortuary to another location (by the cemetary) and this buiding has been vacant off and on since. Whatever business goes in, does not stay there for long. I have heard stories that an outbuilding (to the side of this one) is haunted, but I can neither confirm or deny that.

Anyways, the business currently in there is a wedding chapel. Yes...a wedding chapel. Can you say gross!?! I remember seeing my great grandfather in a casket, at this place...and now people gather there to watch people say their vows? Geeze! Why the business couldn't pick a better building is beyond me. Anyways, since this wedding chapel has been there...whenever Mark and I drive by it, I always comment that people who get married there are crazy!

Open mouth, insert foot. I just found out that a couple in our family are renewing their wedding vows, and of all places, they chose this place to do it. Now, I have several problems with this. First off, they only got married a year ago, in a chapel in Vegas. WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THEY WAIT IF THEY WERE GOING TO GET REMARRIED A YEAR LATER????? Everyone was there, but they didn't wear a dress or tux, or have a best man/woman, and now they want to do the whole thing right. O...K... Again...why didn't they wait (or just do it all the first time)? A year is NOT that long to wait! Especially when they already failed to do it before a grandparent died. Anyways, as "Dear Abby" says...no one's obligated to give gifts for a second wedding, so whats the point in having it??? It's not like they can be any more married than they are, or have the "before wedding" parties. It's not even like they went from tacky Vegas wedding to a nice ol' place. An old mortuary?

I have a feeling that I won't be attending this wedding even though Mark was asked to be the best man. I love the couple getting married, but there is another family member that will probably be invited, and well, I refuse to be around her anymore than I have to be. It's hard to explain, but long story short, she murdered her child and tried killing her infant child, did 10 years in an institution and is out amongst us. I think it is fucking crazy that family members act as if she did nothing wrong, and even worse, they allow their children to be around her. Isn't that considered child endangerment? I lost a lot of respect for the parents who chose "her feeling involved" over "the well being of their children".

I swore when Mark and I got together that I would never have anything to do with her, and out of 9 years, I've seen her three times (once at the hospital when a family member was dying, at the funeral, and at this couple's wedding last year). I've already witnessed them getting married, and I don't think I should have to subject myself or my safety to being in the midst of a murderer. I even refused to attend another wedding because she was going to be there, and if that couple sees that I attend this couple's wedding for a second time? They may disown me. Oh well...