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Oh, mom.

My mom used to be a florist, so when I mentioned that we were thinking about using a lot of paper flowers to fit into our origami theme, she was not happy. Conversations would go like this:

"And then we'll have paper flowers as part of the centerpiece!"
"You'll have real flowers on the tables."
"But we wanted paper flowers, to go with our theme."
"But you'll have real flowers."

So we finally hashed it out this weekend, with me showing her pictures of what I meant, and found a compromise - cute, origami boxes that real flowers can sit in, and mini-bouquets in paper cones for decoration/favors. (I want the mini-bouquets to be paper flowers, she is under the impression that they'll be real. We'll see!)

And finally, finally, she started getting excited about my vision.

I came home today to my facebook inbox full of messages from her linking me to different origami websites for ideas, 9 links total, and I'm sure she's expecting me to look into all of them thoroughly. I'm so happy she's enjoying being involved,but I wish we could come to a level of involvement somewhere *between* "Disapproving" and "Exasperatingly Enthusiastic."
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