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Posted by
bettie_x on Wednesday, February 27, 2002 - 04:02 AM PST
Well, we did it. We finally did it.
As of sunday at 3:30 pm I made an honest man of michael, and we got married.
It was far more than I ever expected, toxically overwhelming, stressfull, and the best thing I could have ever done with my life.
My day started off by getting up early to get my nails done and find a pair of shoes. I spent $20 and 1 hour of my life on a nail job that I had to go home and fix with an acrylic emery board. I bought cute clear acrylic shoes, and ran around in a daze and panic. I cried, I spazed, I screamed "I'm scared! They're all gonna be STARING at me!"
I got my husband dressed and we showed up much later than intended, I was assaulted by my favorite photographer from the gay bar and her assistant, and prepared for the fateful moment.
My poor maid of honor is 7 months pregnant and her feet had been swelling to the size of footballs, but for me, the poor dear had been wrapping her feet to keep the size down just so she could wear shoes. I love her.
As I searched frantically for an escape route for one last secretive cigarette before the fatefull moment, I was called downstairs to do the deed.
My father is as nervous as I was, and as I lurched down the stairs tripping on my dress, he said "so what do we do" I said "just smile and move fast"
I grabbed his arm and dragged him down the isle in a record breaking sound barrier smashing wedding procession. The shawl slipped from my shoulders. He got his first look at the tattoos on my back. He made a face, my mother smacked him, kicked my maid of dishonor and she pulled it back up. I shivered and twitched and acted much like a suffer of turrets syndrome. Michael was impeccably still, and I envied his composure as I twitched and struggled to keep my composure, speaking his vows in his envied "radio voice", I blurted out my vows, struggling not to stutter and be comprehendable. Then it was done. I grabbed him and dragged him out as fast as possible, got to the saftey of the foyer and gave him a solid, nervous, and tension and comic relieving high five. We did it.
We did our toast, and I had two glasses of champagne because I drank my first one before the toast started, to which my mother said quitely (but I heard her) "I thought you had to sip champagne, not guzzle it".
we had a vegan buffet (*hooray*) and the vegan wedding cake from cafe flora in seattle was beyond my expectations, topped with the little black car with the bride and skeleton groom in it that I got for my wedding shower (along with a box of 64 black crayons) from my friend melissa.
To my suprise, my "brother" scott (whom I was told was in eastern washington the day prior) showed up. He drove all the way here for our wedding, and I was very glad and suprised that he went out of his way to be there.
I changed back into my jeans and "I was a teenage zombie" tanktop, while michael opted to stay in his very sexy monkey suit (I think he likes it), packed up our loot, got home to unload and went out drinking and had possibly the best night of our lives.
This is all very corny and very surreal to me, but I had to share.
To all the ladies, sorry, he's not a swinging bachelor anymore...and I'm stingy and carry thumbscrews in my glovebox.
I can't wait for the pictures to come back....and believe it or not, my mother was in black, and not ME for a change...now how odd is that thought?
But it's all over now....and I exchanged the FIVE VEGGIE/RICE STEAMERS I recieved..*snort*
and after all these years, we've done the deed.
When I met him four years ago, that first glimpse of the pale sexy college man with the little red streak in his bangs, I never thought I'd ever get to speak to him let alone that some day I'd be marrying him.
Wierd how things go, isn't it?
If my anthropology class handn't been cancelled, and if the german class I chose hadn't been full, I wouldn't have taken the radio class, never would have gotten the opportunity come face to face with the only perfect person for me. Don't throw in your chips on luck...sometimes it strikes when you least expect it, nor when you are looking for it.
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Meranda_Jade (scurtis510@home.com)
on Feb 27, 2002 - 05:26 AM
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Congratulations! Best wishes and hopes for a happy and long marriage to you!
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by jadedraven (smithsm@alfredstate.edu)
on Feb 27, 2002 - 08:16 AM
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so do we get to see a picture of you all weddinged up? (weddinged=wearing all the wedding garb and crying, laughing, hitting people, guzzling vodka and chain smoking)
your braver than I, I just don't think commitment is fun...
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Anonymous-Coward on Feb 27, 2002 - 08:46 AM
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Phalkon13: very beautiful story, I hope your honeymoon is very..... fulfilling ;)
I cried, I spazed, I screamed "I'm scared! They're all gonna be STARING at me!"
Dear, we all already stare at you!!! Just in a different way, and inthe (late) picture gallery!
Congratulations! just don't get any little house on the prairie with a white picket fence,okay? You'd scare the hell out of all of us! ;)
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by callei (plyn@plynlymon.com)
on Feb 27, 2002 - 09:45 AM
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welcome (again) to the the black clad and married crowd!
strangly i met mine because of an anthropoloy as well.
His mom and i sat in the back of the room talking about all the things we wanted to do to this tastey guy that sat in the front of the class.
then she introduced me to her son.....
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Fergshmuck on Feb 27, 2002 - 11:40 AM
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Kickin! I'm glad yall are finally hitched.. congratulations and bestest of the best wishes.. ^.^
`rik
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Rae (darkness_embraced1@yahoo.com)
on Feb 27, 2002 - 12:01 PM
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Oh my, When you was telling me about a wedding the other night, I had no idea you was talking about YOUR wedding..lol
Congratulations to the both of you.
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Poison on Feb 27, 2002 - 12:23 PM
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I'm so happy for you and I don't even know you. I know it sounds stupid but it just makes me feel so good and confident in "love concures all" when I hear stuff like this. You're so lucky to have found eachother.
"And they lived happelly ever after"
Congrats,
Poison
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by VladII (vladII@seznam.cz)
on Feb 27, 2002 - 10:53 PM
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What can i say ? CONGRATUATIONS!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by pAris (dparis@columbus.rr.com)
on Feb 28, 2002 - 06:08 AM
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Congratulations! My grrl and I have been engaged since Halloween of 2000 (we're not in any hurry obviously). We keep changing our minds as to how/when to do it - in Las Vegas, in New Orleans, on a boat, on roller-skates (not kidding), at an art show.... Best wishes and good luck.
I like your story of how you met too. We met in class too (although I was working in her life drawing class - a fact she felt she just had to share with her father right after he showed me some of his gun collection...).
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Arthegarn on Feb 28, 2002 - 12:38 PM
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May God bless you for I already do. May you be as happy as you deserve, and your love last as long as heaven and earth. May you never have to suffer for lack of health or wealth. May no external force affect your matrimony. May you get as many children as you wish, and may you raise them to become the kind of people that you are.
My most sincere congratulations.
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Sailor-style...
by Dolorosa on Mar 01, 2002 - 04:56 AM
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Fair winds and following seas...may your voyage be a long and fufilling one...
*Sigh* One day...one day I'll get to walk down the aisle myself...I just hope I can find a dress in my size ;)
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Schizo on Mar 03, 2002 - 08:22 PM
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Heaps and heaps and heaps of congratulations to you, dearest Bettie! I am just sooooo overwhelmingly happy for you!!!!
*sighs and wipes away tear*
You didn't have a black wedding? And here I was picturing you in a midnight graveyard releasing bats across the full moon (instead of doves)! After all, this is the Bettie whose black is blacker than even Dracula's black! But then again, maybe it is even more Bettie to defy expectations and just get plain married in the semi-old-fashioned way!
God, I WISH I could tell you what warm fuzzies the news gives me! I hope you are HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!!
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Anonymous-Coward on Mar 05, 2002 - 09:46 AM
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the ever-lurking kitty-kat: I'm so happy for you and i don't even know you. *huge grin* 'and they lived gothily ever after'
only one more thing to say....
FEEL THE LUUUUUUV!
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Re: For whom the bell tolls....
by Battery on Mar 28, 2002 - 06:55 PM
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Men of five still alive through the rageing glow, or so the song goes, well now 4 because they say marrage is the end of a mans life heheheh Jk, Have a great life you to love birds
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