Mary's Married.
You can find my picture album for this, here.
Yesterday, along with about 70 other people, I witnessed the marriage of someone very near and dear to me and someone who I believe will cherish and love her for the rest of his life. Congratulations Mary and Richard Ameredo. (sp?)
I used to think that only women thought about things like this, but I then started thinking about my own marriage. Who would it be? How would the wedding be? Who would be my best man? Would Pastor Bill do the sermon? Where would it be? If I plan to get married, then I better find a church here to call home, else I’ll be looking pretty out of place having the marriage in my house, because I’m not a member of any other church.
In any case, I realized that I was thinking too much and by that time the wedding was over and Sonny came out from behind us playing bagpipes, indicating that the ceremony was over and that we were supposed to get to downtown for the reception.
The reception was one of the most fun I have had in a very long time. It started off with an open bar. (And it ended with taking a bottle of champagne and going to Zeitman central (where I find myself now) and talking all about Europe and my adventures there.) There were a lot of Landmark people there and of course, we were all VERY self-expressed and later owned the dance floor. I found myself very tipsy at the beginning from two bottles of wine and no food in the last 6-8 hours. I was enjoying myself very much, but very cautious every time I walked near the beautiful cakes, afraid that I would become the token clumsy fool that tripped into them after paying more attention to a beautiful woman walking by me than my own feet walking in front of me. Even in my “more than tipsy, less than drunk” state, I was able to avoid disaster and certain embarassment.
I will admit that I look forward to my wedding. I look forward to meeing the person that I will intently look at with both eyes in front of an audience of about a hundred people and say, “I do.” and then know that for the rest of my life, this woman will light me up, turn me on, make me do the “Dance of Joy” for as long as we both shall live. Yes, I know that like any relationship, my marriage will go through hard times. It will go through REALLY hard times. Hell, it’ll go through times where I will wish that I had that device in Men in Black where I would forget the about everything; however, I KNOW that I have the tools to make the relationship work. And if I can find someone with tools of her own, I think we’ll be set for life.
Marriage…How ‘bout them apples.
NOTE: I finally wrote down my My Theory of It. Please read and comment.