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Twenty one years ago...
Twenty one years ago, this past Monday, the 5th of June, I walked into the office where Misty worked and asked "So...you wanna get married?" She looked at me like I had just walked in off a spaceship..."Yea...right! Oh. You're serious? YES! YES! YES! When?" As soon as possible.
We drove up to the courthouse, got our marriage license, then took a couple of days to get things ready. Found a guy in the phone book (remember those?) who was a minister and a JP, made an appointment, called my sisters and a couple of friends and told them when and where to meet us.
Then Friday, June 7th, (D-day plus one I told her..."I'll be able to remember our anniversary because I never forget D-day.") We all met up. We were two broke puppies back then, both of us coming off divorces. I stopped at Wal-Mart and got her a $6.00 wedding ring. She told me she didn't need it. "Nope...a girl needs a ring when she get's married." Stopped at Food Lion and got some flowers. Same thing. A girl needs flowers. Our wedding cake was a box of Hostess Cup Cakes to pass around. I suspect never have two 17 year olds gotten married on such a shoestring. I was 50...she a few years younger.
(That tie was not really THAT ugly...it just photoed poorly.)
The actual "ceremony" took a few minutes. My sisters cried and laughed. We jumped in the pickup and took off for the Skyline Drive, and drove down through the mountains. We made each other a promise. This was number three for each of us. We were too old, and too lazy to go through this again, plus this time when we stood in front of God and witnesses and swore "'till death do us part" we really understood what that meant. No walking away from this one. We would just have to get along no matter what.
We've been together since, almost never out of each others sight. I've been through cancer, and open heart surgery. She's had both knees replaced, her back operated on, and suffered a ruptured aneurysm in her brain that left her, IN HER WORDS...not mine, "brain damaged." We spat a few times a day but never actually get "mad" at each other.
Twenty one years ago today...it seems we've been together forever, and it seems like yesterday. Maybe we'll go to the range. She wants to shoot HER Python.
Hooda thunk a "Yankee girl" from Chicago and a Redneck like myself, who had almost never been out of the state of Virginia would have met up and stuck together this long?
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Congratulations!
And many more years together!
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Sounds like you each got a good one!
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Good ones are hard to find. Congratulations on a good one!!!
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And I thought my wife and I had a cheap wedding!
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Congratulations to the both of you. Good story.
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Quote:
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"So...you wanna get married?"
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When you proposed to her, did she chastise you for starting your sentence with "So"? 
Should the two of you decide to renew your vows at some point, perhaps you could have a more fancy ceremony. Might I suggest the Denny's in Las Vegas? They offer a $199 wedding special, Together Like Bacon And Eggs.
Seriously, congratulations and God Bless. A nice story and written from your heart.
https://www.dennys.com/sites/default...?itok=vNyWOxRF
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Quote:
Originally Posted by johngross
When you proposed to her, did she chastise you for starting your sentence with "So"?
Should the two of you decide to renew your vows at some point, perhaps you could have a more fancy ceremony. Might I suggest the Denny's in Las Vegas? They offer a $199 wedding special, Together Like Bacon And Eggs.
Seriously, congratulations and God Bless. A nice story and written from your heart. |
Not at all. I had already been told we were going to get married.  The only question was when. When I walked into her office, I had just gotten off the phone with my lawyer, who had told me my divorce was final. So I figured "Why not now." 
The Denny's idea is a good one. She had worked at Denny's a couple of times before she met me. Maybe they have a former employee discount.
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Congratulations!
And great story.
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Why's and wherefores excluded, sometimes it just works.
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"Bliss" is such a wonderfully descriptive word.
It appears that you two have discoved it.
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A great read. Congratulations and thanks for sharing
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This is excellent.
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Third times a charm!!!!!!
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Congratulations and Happy Anniversary. Wishes sent that y'all enjoy another twenty-one healthy and happy anniversaries. Thanks for sharing a great story.
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Congratulations to you and your bride!
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CajunBass, reading your post made my day! Congratulations to you both, and may you have many more years of happiness together...
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Sometimes you just know. I had been divorced for two years. I met a beautiful nurse and asked her out. Three weeks later we were engaged. Married one year after our first date, she was 22 and I was 26 when we wed, and we will be married forty years this December 17th.
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We are 40+ years into a wonderful relationship.
Hypnosis helps.
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21 years ago was too late already. I had been married 10 years.
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