Bells Were Ringing

I have mentioned before when I remember it is Tuesday, I try and play along with with Anne@Tuesday 4 by answering the 4 questions she posts each week. This week is all about weddings and such.

TheHubs name is not Bill but this is the first song about getting married that popped into my head and I always go with my first impulse. I had a friend when I was young who had a huge crush on a guy named Bill and she played or sang it all the time. I guess that is why it stuck in my brain. But now, years and years removed from her school girl crush, I like the instrumentation of the song and love Marilyn McCoo's voice.

1. If you are married would you share how your husband proposed to you?

We were married long before the big production proposals. He asked me to marry him and I said yes. I honestly don't even remember where we were. 

How long were you engaged before you got married? About 5 months

2. Did you receive an engagement ring? I am a southern female__of course I did1

Would you show us or describe it for us? I can't show it to you, but I wish I could. It was stolen from a hotel room years and years ago.  I can describe it though. It was a marquis cut solitaire diamond on a plain gold band with my initials engraved on the interior of the band. (We did replace the ring but it is different). Someone either removed the stone or someone, somewhere is wearing a ring with ASH engraved on it. Maybe whoever took it gave it to someone named Ashley? 

3. What kind of wedding did you have?  I had wonderful help with the wedding. I drew the dress I wanted on a napkin because I could not find anything that I liked. Mom and I made it from a sheet first because there was no pattern anywhere like what I wanted for a dress. After all the adjustments were made, Mom made the dress, then hand beaded it. In addition to all the buttons Mom covered for the back of the dress, I had 15 buttons from my grandmother's wedding dress. Mom's next door neighbor made the Juliet cap I wore, and my aunt made poie de soie roses to cover where the veil attached to the cap. 

My aunt had worked as a florist at one time and she did all the flowers for the church, reception and the wedding party. Like everything she ever did they were gorgeous

We were married in my home church with both a minister and a priest officiating. The church has a huge pipe organ and the organist played Baroque music before and after the ceremony. 

I had four attendants, my sister, my cousin, and my two closest friends. TheHub had his brothers, brother in law, and best friend as groomsmen. I guess that would be considered a small wedding by todays standards. There were about 230 guests which sounds like a lot, but both TheHub and I had large extended families, so we were related to many of them.  The wedding itself was simple but it was formal. We had your basic protestant ceremony which lasted maybe 20 minutes, then had a small reception following the ceremony.

 

4.Was there a honeymoon? Kind of. We were very young and still in school. We got married on a Friday night of a bye football weekend. (Yes, we actually planned our wedding based on Alabama's football schedule.)  Monday morning classes meant a very short getaway. In hindsight we probably should have waited until the winter break or even after the spring semester, but we didn't. I am glad we did not though, because it would have totally changed the trajectory of our lives. 

Where did you go how long did you stay?  Atlanta, for a short weekend, then we drove home Sunday night and began our life in married student housing (which is code for apartments slightly larger than a hamster cage). Our place was so small that if you were cleaning the bathroom and someone opened the bathroom door you would be knocked into the tub. Ask me how I know that! To this day I have no clue why anyone would design a teeny bathroom with an inward swinging door.

Thank you for these questions! I dug our wedding photo book out and looked through it. I had not looked at those photos in years. The wedding was lovely but it was just one day compared to the lifetime we have lived together since then.