Wow,
Sam and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary on 5/23. I can’t believe that my wedding day was over 10 years ago and we have known each other for over 12 years.
It’s amazing how some things I can remember very vividly
- Getting my hair done with Mary that morning
- Uncle Les speeding to get us to Mom and Dad’s
- Watching Gramma C. put the icing on her last cake
- Giving dad back the bracelet he gave me many years before
- Getting ready with mom in the dressing room
- Wondering how mamy people were getting soaked as the rain poured down
- Quickly giving dad my engagement ring I forgot to take off right before walking down the isle
- Seeing Sam for the first time when the doors opened
- Watching the lights flicker from the storm
- Watching Dad’s chin quiver as he held back tears before giving me away
- Watching my brothers and Dad pat each other back while they cried
- Cameron taking a seat
- Barely getting through our vows without breaking down
- The first time I heard “Mr. and Mrs. Sam Martin”
- The cake
- The toast…”What was my name?”
- The Peurto Rican Exchange
- The Italian Exchange
- Waiting for the Limos
- The Martin Conversation
- Riding in the Limos….too many to list here, but, “it was Mountain dew”, ”Viva Gordidas”, “OOO, cleavage”, ”I’m not just cute, I’m sexy”, “You didn’t want to be a groomsman?, You didn’t get asked to be!” “It was a bee-sting”, “50 slab”, “How does it feel do be away from the TV?”
- At the Fox and the Hound…again too many shall we say…Eddieisms….”Sam, will you be my best man?”, “How about before you ask Sam to be your best man, you ask me to be your wife?” “Sam, you are not and aquaintance, you eh a friend, and as long if you live, you a a friend. And if you don’t show us this tape, I gonna come up and kick boffa you a$$e$.” “Cuz you got it like that, you gotta do it, you gotta take care of it, and that’s the bottom line!” “Frank!”, “To Sam, we love him, we love his woman, and we hopes him lots of happiness”
- Also at the Fox and Hound…Pat making a friend, The bump sign, Mike and Noel breaking up at Sam’s wedding, “No, cause you keep drinking Ho.”
- The second reception…Mike, splitting his chin open and spraying champagne everywhere, Mike in the pool, Durwood punching Jason, Ralph driving up with the weed-eater in the miata, Uncle Brian’s Dancing, Learning the salsa, dad singing to mom
- Mom taking us to the Farrington
Other things we heard about later…The flamingo through the window and Jeanette parking her car in her bedroom.
There were many other memories from that day that have slipped into the deapths of my baby bumbled brain, but needless to say, it was a day to remember.
Never again will those same people be together in one place at one time…in fact it seems as though some of them we may never see or speak to again even separately.
And never again will Sam and I feel that same exact feeling…actually, it only gets better.
Today, Tommorow, Always
