Friday, July 10, 2009

Miracles...

When I said we were babies on our wedding day, I wasn't exaggerating. We were 19. We have a daughter who is almost 19 1/2. We've been married 20 years. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why we planned our entire wedding in 8 days. Yes. 8 DAYS! Of course, MC was my maid-of-honor. Monte, Michael's best friend growing up, was his best man.

It was a small wedding. (duh?!) Mostly family. Aside from MC, I had only invited 2 other friends, J & KW . I've been friends with these girls since junior high. To this day, MC, J & KW are my best friends. I love them so much.

On my wedding day, MC stood up for me. J & KW performed a miracle. You see, when Mom & I ordered our wedding cake, we told the woman at the bakery grocery store that we were expecting 34 people at the wedding. (See? I don't exaggerate...we WERE babies & it WAS a small wedding). Somehow the baker random employee misunderstood...

...and we ended up with a cake for 3-4 people.

that didn't really uphold the Precious Moments cake topper my grandmother bought for us... see how it collapsed? After we ceremoniously "cut the cake", J & KW got to work...

and SOMEHOW managed to serve EVERYONE a piece of cake (we even had the top layer to freeze until our first anniversary my in-law's moved to a new house 15 years later).

Miraculous, huh?! Almost as miraculous as two 19 year-old kids making a marriage work for 20 years...


4 comments:

Joanne said...

Awwwww.......that's a love story for ya!!!

Scarlet O'Kara said...

It is wonderful to see that the two of you are still in love like you were in high school.

Unknown said...

Firstly, y'all were 12. I mean, seriously, those faces!!! Babies! Secondly, hats off to you for having good taste at that young age to marry a guy that you could stand for the next 20 years (not to mention the tons of years left to go together)! When I was that age, I dated a guy with a mullet and a bad attitude. I would hate to have thought what THAT marriage would have been like...Congratulations, seriously. Y'all are precious!

Ben said...

That's a sad cake. Lol...