In honor of our anniversary, I'm re-posting something I used for a blog tour last summer, with a few changes. It was a dark and stormy night...no seriously, it was. We got married on November 1, 1975 at an eight o'clock candlelight service. It was snow/raining and cold, although the church was beautiful, sigh. My dress cost a whopping $55.00, the veil was $27.00 and I borrowed the shoes, giant crystal platform shoes so I wouldn't look too ridiculous standing next to Bill, who had to wear his 'dress boots'. Is there even such a thing? The flowers Keriann and I got after hours on Friday night, dumpster diving at all the local florists, her idea by the way. Keriann played her guitar and sang for the service, which was one of the nicer touches. The Bridesmaids were my nieces, wearing used dresses remade from my other sisters wedding and they were butt ugly. I would worry about saying that, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't read my blog. Bill's suit cost more than my dress, $110.00 from Anderson Little and when he and his groomsmen went to pick it up the morning of the wedding, they stopped for a little bar hopping. For some strange reason, Bill told them that I would cook a spaghetti dinner for them all if they just came to my house. NOT! I was busy playing beauty parlor and it didn't take me long to toss their drunken asses out with stern orders to sober up. By the end of the argument, Bill and I weren't even speaking. I wasn't sure if he would show up at the church or not, but I trucked my pretty little ass there, just in case. We had previously decided that instead of my walking up the aisle to him, we would walk up together and boy was I glad to see him waiting there for me when I came upstairs from the Brides Room. "Are you sure you want to go through with this?" I asked, not bothering to conceal my attitude. "I wouldn't be here if I wasn't" he shot back, sticking out his arm for me to hold, and away we went. I'm not sure I know of another bride and groom who weren't speaking when they got to the church, but we managed to say 'I do", and he really did kiss me, lol. The reception was at the fire barn and we were supposed to go away for a night, but by the time it was over and we went home we were both so tired he carried me over the threshold, we ordered subs and watched a monster movie on TV. Last night as we were snuggled on the chaise watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bill leaned over and kissed me. "I'm glad we've had all these years together," he said nuzzling my ear. "Me too." I don't know what it is with me and weddings. All of my books either have them, or plan them. Seriously, it's not like mine was so great and in fact if I hadn't been so in love with the groom, I probably would have skipped the whole thing. I guess that's why I put so much thought into my fictional weddings. I want my girls to have beautiful weddings to go with their love stories. We went all out when our daughters were married. My youngest had eighteen attendants! Our oldest wore a dress that made me cry the first time I saw it, twenty foot train, cut out hearts trimmed with seed pearls, well you get the picture. Thank God fictional weddings are so affordable, lol.
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Lori Levy
11/1/2014 09:47:38 am
Thanks for the laugh by sharing the start of your marriage life. Sounds like it was well worth the fiasco.
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Stevie
11/1/2014 11:14:27 am
It was Lori, I'd marry him again in a heartbeat. Thanks for reading my blog.
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Stevie
11/2/2014 12:36:48 am
Thanks Jan. he's definitely a keeper.
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11/1/2014 05:27:12 pm
That was a really sweet story! I am cracking up that you weren't even speaking during the wedding. "You sure you want to go through with this?" haha!
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Stevie
11/2/2014 12:34:19 am
I know lol. Looking back I remember how I felt when I came up the stairs and he was waiting for me. In the Brides room I'd been composing what I was going to say to the guests if he didn't show. "There's been a little hitch...". I guess if a man shows up to marry you when you're not even speaking, he's pretty serious.
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