I'm feeling a little nostalgic today and thought I'd make this week’s triple tangent about our wedding.
1. The only people that saw me in my wedding dress (or even pictures of me in the dress) until our wedding day were my mom and sister. That was something special for the three of us, it meant a lot to me keeping that detail private.
2. D's youth Pastor J married us and he really made our ceremony. He told personal stories about D and I as well as him and D. It was a good mix of personal, funny and serious all the while keeing it short and sweet! His wife K has an amazing voice and sang our first dance song. It meant a lot to us (especially D) to have them be such an important part of our wedding.
3. I was planning on doing a "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" (old - my parents wedding bands, new - my wedding dress, borrowed - my veil and a hair comb, blue - I was going to have my flowers wrapped in a light blue ribbon), but a few things changed and I ended up not really doing it. I had my something new and something borrowed, but I was to nervous something could happen to my parents wedding bands so I didn't have them wrapped into my flowers. My flowers ended up being wrapped in pink ribbon in honor of my grandmother. She was diagnosed with breast cancer that March and couldn't be at the wedding so it was my way of having her there with me.
I didn't realize that your grandmother was unable to make your wedding, that is really too bad. I hope she is doing well and had a strong fight through breast cancer. I love the way you tied her in and had here there with you.
ReplyDeleteShe had just started chemo and the doctor didn't want her to be in airports or big groups of people since her immune system was so low. I had a picture taken of just my left hand (so it had my rings) holding my bouquet for her. She is doing great now, all done chemo, radiation and another medication and her follow up appointments have been good.
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