I just read this article on CNN about Wedding Traditions. It is hilarious.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/06/27/wedding.traditions/index.html
It is no secret that as we grow-up, girls start to visualize that fateful wedding day. Thanks to fairytale stories, we have dreamed up demanding expectations for our wedding day. It is not clear until the first boy breaks our heart –that our knight in shining armor will not be riding up in a black stallion or christen our heads with jewels. Yet, when that day is to arrive, we continue with our mission to re-create that one time childhood dream. I am very familiar with planning weddings; it took two engagements to make me run for the mountains and ride off into the sunset solo or the next dumbass….
Fast-forward to college, I was done with males. I had let every “dick” of all shapes and sizes dominate my life; and the last one ripped up every ounce of self-confidence I had. Slowly that dream of ever finding Mr. Right was vanishing into thin air and I was contemplating a life dedicated to serving God. I had given up and decided to take my developing career serious and stop finding the “person” who would make my life worth living…at the time I had no idea I was just searching for love – accepted love.
My senior year in college, I met Jimmy- a completely different person than I had ever met. I was lost, broken, and confused but moving along with the motions. I still had a telephone connection to the previous “ass” in my life and I could not sever the tie. I don’t know what it was about Jimmy that made me awaken a bit and contemplate that there was hope in my life. But he did. My heart bloomed and my ego smiled.
Fast-forward again to a year later…the wedding. I married Jimmy in 2001. I never thought this moment in my life would happen – I was destined to be a bachelorette for a very long time. I guess those green eyes captured my heart and mind…okay, okay, his intellect was the real turn-on.
What I find so hilarious about this article is that it touches on every ‘tradition” that we had at our wedding. It was a traditional Catholic wedding – some new traditions, El Paso style. We made sure that every one of these traditions was part of our wedding. I find the mention of saving the top tier of our cake for our first year anniversary extremely hilarious – I got pregnant in 2002, three months shy of our first year anniversary…
I could only imagine if our entire wedding party had to watch as we consummated our marriage….
Friday, June 27, 2008
