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One year this weekend...

05:36, Friday, May 2, 2008 .. Posted in Just Thinking .. 1 comments .. Link

I married my best friend.

A few quick wedding memories:

'Twas the night before the wedding, and the bride's mother's house was alive,
with worry and anguish...
because the bride's foundation garments to be worn under her dress
had never arrived! (An emergency trip to a bridal shop was made, which was expensive and inconvenient as the shop only carried one type of bridal slip: an enormous hoop-skirt type thing! Many alterations were made. Mostly by hacking away at the slip with scissors.)

We had a small wedding of about twenty people, all immediate family relations, except for our Minister and his wife. It was a compromise between my husband's wish for a more traditional wedding and my wish to elope.

We did not hire a professional photographer for pictures during the wedding, but instead met at a studio before the wedding for a studio sitting. It turned out to be a smart idea.

We spotted a yard sale on the way to church and stopped to make a purchase!

There were no flowers at our wedding other than my bouquet of peach roses and a rose on my husband's lapel. It was quite plain. An Aunt surprised us by bring bubble liquid for everyone so they could blow bubbles at us as we left the church.

My husband wore a neck tie (a traditional no-no among Mennonites) for the second time in his life. Later I saw he had printed instructions on how to tie it. It struck me as cute.

Our "reception" was at a nice restaurant nearby, and the food was excellent. We ordered right off of the menu, and the staff went out of their way to throw in some unexpected extras.

One Aunt kept asking our Minister if my husband would have to grow a beard now that we were married.

We actually had two cakes- one was a smaller, gluten-free cake made for a family member with celiac disease. The "anniversary cake" was boxed up and given to us to take home. Completely unaware of the tradition where you save a piece to eat on your first anniversary, my new husband took the little cake into work two days later to share with his co-workers, to thank them for the pre-wedding party they had thrown him. My initial reaction of horror evolved into laughter...eventually.

And after the celebration, we went back to moving our belongings into our house!

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03:39, Monday, May 5, 2008 .. Posted by MyThreeDaughters
Happy Anniversary! I guess the cake could have come in handy right about now.

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