You got that one right. Life’s not fair at all
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We marched out to the Duncan Johnstone Set, played by my friend the local Pipe Major. It was gloriously loud! 
Funny thing about our wedding: We planned to have it in the mountains, on the edge of the wilderness, but it didn't work. Unusually for Wyoming, it rained for two solid weeks leading up to the big day, and the road into our wedding spot was a mud bog. (It still makes me sad: Imagine the pipe tune above echoing through the Wind River canyons...it would have been beautiful!)
Anyway, we had a backup spot lined up in a local church building. So the morning before our wedding, we made the decision. I drove over to our backup venue to start setting stuff up, to find that they had forgotten all about being our backup venue, and decided to paint all their doors. The auditorium was completely full of saw horses, doors, and enough paint fumes to get the whole town high.
So, instead of spending the day before our wedding as planned, gathering wildflowers and otherwise frolicking in the mountains with our friends, we spent it frantically calling local churches to ask, "May we please get married in your building...tomorrow?" It raised a few eyebrows, but I tell the truth, all was proper.
It really wasn't funny at the time. My three groomsmen were amazing help getting all the bazillion last-second details put together. But eventually all was sorted out. When the preacher finally said "Man and Wife," the pipes started playing that victory song, and I finally got to give my sweetie that magical first smooch of marriage, all the groomsmen turned around and high-fived each other. For those of us who knew the whole story, it was pretty funny.
Funny thing about our wedding: We planned to have it in the mountains, on the edge of the wilderness, but it didn't work. Unusually for Wyoming, it rained for two solid weeks leading up to the big day, and the road into our wedding spot was a mud bog. (It still makes me sad: Imagine the pipe tune above echoing through the Wind River canyons...it would have been beautiful!)
Anyway, we had a backup spot lined up in a local church building. So the morning before our wedding, we made the decision. I drove over to our backup venue to start setting stuff up, to find that they had forgotten all about being our backup venue, and decided to paint all their doors. The auditorium was completely full of saw horses, doors, and enough paint fumes to get the whole town high.
So, instead of spending the day before our wedding as planned, gathering wildflowers and otherwise frolicking in the mountains with our friends, we spent it frantically calling local churches to ask, "May we please get married in your building...tomorrow?" It raised a few eyebrows, but I tell the truth, all was proper.
It really wasn't funny at the time. My three groomsmen were amazing help getting all the bazillion last-second details put together. But eventually all was sorted out. When the preacher finally said "Man and Wife," the pipes started playing that victory song, and I finally got to give my sweetie that magical first smooch of marriage, all the groomsmen turned around and high-fived each other. For those of us who knew the whole story, it was pretty funny.
You make our wedding sound boring
45 years ago, marriages could only take place in the register office or a church which had a wedding licence. Nowadays all sorts of places have a wedding licence, but not back then. It was also the custom to have a sit down meal or perhaps a buffet following the marriage ceremony, and the bride and groom left on honeymoon straight from the reception. Nowadays couples also have a dance in the evening, but not when we got married. So no first dance for us. Mid afternoon we were on a train going on honeymoon.
However, you could say we had our first dance 3 years before we got married. My husband and his brother wanted to go to ballroom dancing classes at the university where we were postgrad students and they asked me and my friend if we would like to go so they would have partners. My friend backed out but I went and the rest, as they say, is history.
45 years ago, marriages could only take place in the register office or a church which had a wedding licence. Nowadays all sorts of places have a wedding licence, but not back then. It was also the custom to have a sit down meal or perhaps a buffet following the marriage ceremony, and the bride and groom left on honeymoon straight from the reception. Nowadays couples also have a dance in the evening, but not when we got married. So no first dance for us. Mid afternoon we were on a train going on honeymoon.
However, you could say we had our first dance 3 years before we got married. My husband and his brother wanted to go to ballroom dancing classes at the university where we were postgrad students and they asked me and my friend if we would like to go so they would have partners. My friend backed out but I went and the rest, as they say, is history.
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