Memories Cycle 2 - WINNER ANNOUNCED

Assignment 7 - Wedding Day - Final
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It was inevitable that the marriage between us would eventuate, we just didn’t know when. Mike was a stickler for ensuring we had enough money. At one time the bride’s parents would pay for everything but not so in more recent times. If we were to have the wedding we wanted, a certain percentage would be coming out of our own pockets even though Mike’s parents helped out. But being Mike, he would be sure to manage the money side of things and put as little pressure on our parents as possible.

He’d suffered a job he hated for years but wouldn’t get out of that business, no matter how much I tried to persuade him. He had to be sure I went through my university course first, we had a house or at least a piece of land to build a house and enough left over to pay for the wedding we wanted. I left it up to him as I trusted that he would get us through no matter what.

For something old, Mike had turned his grandmother’s pearl necklace into a bracelet of pearls with earrings to match and presented it so I could wear them on our day. For something borrowed, I wore my mother’s wedding dress with a few adjustments. For the blue, my garter, which he enjoyed taking off during the reception, and the ring of course, for the new.
When the day did come, we knew it would be perfect, it had an outdoor area, with trees, water around us by ways of a gorgeous fountain in the middle of the guests’ seating area. Inside, a piano and bar, with a dance floor. A banquet of food and drink fountains. The venue in fact was perfect.

The only down side to the day was that in the wedding cars on the way there, we struck busy traffic and became banked up at most stop lights. At one stop light no cars could move for ages, Mike and I were sure we’d be late for the reception after all the photographs we’d had taken at a lakeside rose garden before heading there. Whilst banked up, a car whizzing into a driveway across from where we’d stopped, caught our eye. A man jumped out and raced inside.

“Ha…you think he’s forgotten something?” Mike and I laughed.

“I think so, he’s in an awful hurry.” I looked over to the house again and saw the car he’d jumped out of start to roll backwards and it was coming straight for our wedding car. “Mike look!” I yelled.

As it came the poor driver could do nothing to avoid a collision. It came out and caught the back corner of our wedding car. It happened in a matter of seconds. Fortunately for us it moved slowly and because our car was stationary, it didn’t cause too much damage, and more importantly none of us were hurt. It delayed us that much more though, but the driver was wonderful and rang to let people know at our reception venue what had happened.

The rest of the day, however went off without a hitch.

Most of all I wanted the fairy tale, a balcony overlooking the whole area, where he’d climb up with a rose in his mouth to give me. He chose a pink rose because I had a friend at uni, that could see auras and she said pink was the colour of mine, which meant I exuded a lot of love and, of course Mike under all that serious logic, showed the true romantic side of him that day. He actually climbed the balcony and did exactly that. This shot was taken on that very balcony. Everything we’d talked about wanting on the day came through with few glitches.

The photographer after hearing our story, had Mike and I pose like he was my knight in shining armour and I was the damsel in distress he’d just saved. To begin with Mike didn’t like the idea, he thought it to be ”corny”, I think was his exact word, but he did it for me and the shot here is a result of this.

We had many more shots taken on this balcony, in front of the fountain, dancing the bridal waltz and just about everywhere we could.
Even after all this time I remember our wedding day like it was yesterday. I read in the paper just the other day that a couple, both over 100 years old celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary. Mike and I have a goal to beat those odds and I have no doubt we will.