Well, nineteen years ago tomorrow I had one of the busiest, yet most wonderful days of my life. I walked down the aisle and said I Do to the man I love. Nineteen years, do you believe it? Sometimes it seems like yesterday and sometimes it seems like twenty-nine years ago. My memory is so bad that I often wonder if I will ever remember a lot of details from my wedding. I remember spending the night before at my in-laws house (The Hubs and I lived together so we decided to spend the night before apart). If I remember correctly, The Hubs went to an informational meeting in north town for a police department hiring fair. I remember waking up and having breakfast. I remember at some point during the afternoon taking my bridesmaids to a salon I frequented and getting nails and hair done.
After that we headed to the church and started to get ready. I remember my stockings were the wrong kind and we had to scramble to find a different pair. Taking pictures was next. With my mom, dad, bridesmaids etc. I remember heading up to the foyer of the church and my daddy was there. I was worried that he was uncomfortable, he wasn't much for being out in public with strangers and he wasn't much for dressing up in monkey suits, but on that day he seemed fine. He even seemed fine with my mom being there (they didn't talk since the divorce).
I remember walking down the aisle with my daddy at my side and seeing The Hubs waiting for me. I was nervous about being up in front of tons of people, but not about getting married. My memory skips through most of the ceremony but I do remember a little kid saying something that made The Hubs and I laugh through some of our vows. It really helped me break the ice with my nervousness. All in all it was the perfect wedding ceremony for me.
I remember my new BIL driving us to our reception destination. It was in the gorgeous, huge backyard of a friend of MIL's, on a golf course. (It is this house I think of when I write about a big house on a golf course in my second novel Alaskan Ambush). The food was flown in from the east coast by The Hubs' uncle and it was the most delicious barbecue ever. My daddy was able to sit with friends from my hometown so I knew he was okay.
We threw the garter and I don't remember who caught it. My friend Tammy caught the Bouquet and at some point we changed clothes because my long train got in the way. I remember opening gifts and then heading to the hotel.
And guess what I remember most from the wedding night? Yep, trying to get the pins and hairspray out of my hair. I'm pretty sure The Hubs and I did more honeymoon activities the night after the wedding than the wedding night. But that was okay because we had lived together for a long time before the wedding.
A highlight of our honeymoon was going in to Vegas (we spent it locally to visit with family members we hadn't seen in years) and seeing the dinner show at the Excalibur. The Hubs' whole family was there and it was a great show!!! I don't know if they still have it, but if they do and you are in Vegas, go see it!
We pretty much settled back into our normal lives after that and we haven't had a boring year since. We've had a few moves (Oregon, Back to Nevada, Wyoming, Within Wyoming) and I feel like I am forgetting something.... hmmm Oh yeah, in those nineteen years we had five kids. Five crazy, wonderful kids over nineteen years. We've had rough times - a fire that destroyed our business and life as we knew it, a midlife crisis for me, financial problems, meddling relatives, job problems etc....but we somehow made it through and it seems that we get stronger every day. Our marriage has recently rekindled some of the spark and I can't wait to see what happens when I lose weight and get healthy! ;)
Until Next Time....Good, bad, ugly -
work hard and you can get through it all. Relationships are far from easy, so if you aren't willing to work your ass off, don't bother getting involved in one.
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