On This Day, I Married MY Best Friend..........(revised)....

Forty four years ago today; at two o'clock in the afternoon; August 29, 1964,

Grace United Methodist Church.

MY BEST FRIEND AND I WERE MARRIED

THIS WAS MY HANDSOME PRINCE CHARMING

The cake was beautiful, but if you look closely you will see it tilting. Because the air conditioning system was turned off for the ceremony (it would blow the candles out), the cake started to slide.

Just a memory of a beautiful day in my life.

One of only three snapshots I have of the wedding in color.

Gary was 23 and I was 20

It was a long time ago, but yet it seems like yesterday.

It was a hot hot August Saturday,

I laugh when I think about that day now. I needed a new

pair of hose, and so we stopped to buy a pair. The netting under

the dress ripped them to shreds. Guess I didn't need new ones

after all. Gary worked at Boeing and I was a hairdresser. We

were dirt poor. By the time the preacher was paid, the hotel bill

paid and the $5.00 bottle of champagne we had less than $20.00

for two weeks. It was the best time of our lives in spite of the lack

of money. I sit and I am totally amazed at how far we came in thirty

four years. We worked hard, and worked together to have a successful

marriage and life. I think some just don't know how to do that anymore. Those

vows you take in marriage are powerful words and absolutely should

not be taken lightly or for granted. The Lord lived in our home and

IT WAS BLESSED!