For Garrett & Yolanda, on their anniversary
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of Yolanda and Garrett’s wedding. So, in honor of this milestone event, I offer 10 memories I have of their wedding (and preparation for)…
1. The perfect weather
2. Spending Halloween carving pumpkins (as many people did), except ours weren’t Jack-o-lanterns, they were bases for the table centerpieces.
3. Your matching outfits
4. The anachronistic mix of modern formal wear for the wedding party and your Renaissance-based clothes.
5. The honor I had of helping you select your music for the ceremony.
6. All the apples we cored for floating candles and centerpieces.
7. The kindness of strangers: when the supermarket lost your produce order (of pumpkins, on Halloween!), a perfect stranger at the pumpkin patch purchased your pumpkins upon learning that they were for your wedding.
8. The beauty of the setting – from the Spanish architecture and surrounding hills to the floating-candle-lit fountain that separated the on-lookers.
9. Yolanda’s voice over the phone when she told me Garrett had proposed and that she’d accepted.
10. How in love you both looked.
11. (for good measure and the future) How in love you both look.
Congratulations you two! I wish you many, many, many more happy years together.
*hugs*
Tags: Yolanda, Garrett, anniversary, memories
November 5, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Aww. Thank you so much for that. I hate that I didn’t catch it on Friday. And your memory is better than mine. I had COMPLETELY forgotten about #7.
November 6, 2007 at 8:37 am
Thanks lynne, its nice to hear other viewpoints. My mind was so busy , I have few memories of the wedding not set around what was in my own head.
November 11, 2007 at 12:08 pm
@ Yolanda
No worries…I figured you had better things to, um, do
@ Garrett
I can imagine!