Happy Thursday everyone! Since tomorrow will mark mine and my husband’s 16th wedding anniversary, I thought I’d do a post about our wedding day. (In other words, I couldn’t think of anything else interesting to post about this week. LOL)
1. My husband was 19 years old when we got married. (I was 23). His Mom had to go to the courthouse with us and sign papers allowing him to get married since he was under 21 years old. He was kind of mortified.
2. My husband almost passed out when we had our pre-wedding blood tests. He is deathly terrified of needles. I had to keep his attention on me the whole time, and he was as pale as a ghost.
3. We were the first couple to get married in our church after it had been almost completely destroyed by a tornado fourteen months prior.
4. We had to have our reception in one of the Sunday School classrooms, since the Fellowship Hall, located in another building beside the church, was also destroyed by the tornado. Yeah, it was pretty cramped.
5. It rained for a solid week, but the sun reappeared on our wedding day.
6. I was afraid my husband was going to smoke himself to death. He kept a cigarette in both hands all morning, until it was time to meet me at the church, because he was so nervous. (He hasn’t smoked since 1998. YAY!)
7. Because of the nerves and smoking, he lost weight before our wedding, and his ring almost slipped off his finger several times that day. We ended up spending our wedding night going to the jeweler to exchange it for a smaller size.
8. We wanted to elope to Tennessee and get married in one of those little chapels in the mountains, but since my Mom was a wedding co-ordinator at the time, that made it impossible. She threatened my life if we ran away. LOL
9. Our napkins have January 28th instead of January 29th on them, because the 28th was ’supposed’ to be our actual wedding day. We had to change it at the last minute because one of my brothers, who was also a groomsman, couldn’t make it home from Florida in time. Grrrr … brothers!
10. My husband proposed to me while we were slow dancing to Open Arms by Journey. The pianist played it during our wedding when the groomsmen and bridesmaids walked down the aisle at the beginning of the ceremony.
11. A few minutes before we were supposed to take pictures, someone splattered mud on my dress. ACK!! Fortunately, we were able to conceal it enough to get the pictures done.
12. For several weeks beforehand, we had trouble deciding on what music we wanted, and a few days before our wedding, I asked one of my Uncle’s to sing for us. He sang Wind Beneath My Wings and I Cross My Heart. He passed away eighteen months later at the age of 49. I’m so thankful I made the right choice. I still watch our wedding video from time to time just to see and hear him sing. He was an amazing man.
13. We spent our honeymoon in Natchez, MS. We had an antebellum home all to ourselves for the whole weekend. (See the picture below). The only time we saw the owner was when he cooked us breakfast each morning. Most of the rooms were roped off for visiting tourists, but we were given free reign to do what we wanted. (But we didn’t, because we were too afraid we’d break something. LOL)
