Reply #83: I got married

[BlackVelvet04]

on a beautiful spring day on a mountain in Arizona. We were married outside on the deck of an historical building. Flowers lined the deck and the birds were singing and it was a beautiful day. We had a "best dog" who sat quiet as a mouse during the ceremony beside the best man. Everyone was encouraged to dress as pleased them and to be comfortable and have a party. The only music we played was "I Want to Know what Love Is".

The ceremony ended with the magistrate reading:

Now you will feel no rain,
for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there will be no loneliness,
for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons,
but there are three lives before you: his life, her life and your life together.
Go now to your dwelling place to enter into your days together.
And may all your days be good and long upon the Earth.
(Apache Wedding Prayer)

What made the wedding most poignant was the fact that this was the same man I had married 21 years earlier, divorced after a miscarriage and after years apart had found again. We both realized how unhappy we had been without each other and are living happily ever after 10 years later.