Complete Him Challenge – Until Death Do Us Part

 

I take you, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God’s holy ordinance; this is my solemn vow.

This weeks challenge is simply to Remember.

Remember the day you entered your sacred vows. If you are a blogger, please join us by posting pictures from that day and sharing your story. Then  link up at Women Living Well.

 

Here’s a little about our wedding day:

As I said in my first challenge post, we were married over my Christmas break from college.

I travelled home with my maid of honour on December 19th, just ten days before wedding day.  That trip was the most eventful I’d had travelling back and forth from home to school.  We hit some ice and buried the car.  Thankfully I was able to drive out of the ditch with some help from passersby.  We stopped to visit my MOH’s grandmother in  a hospital that was on the way and picked up the wedding cake at my aunt Gwen’s.  We stayed to visit there for a bit as well to let the car dry out some in the garage.

The heater in that car never worked properly, ever.  And wouldn’t you know it but we ran into a storm after leaving my aunt’s home.  The whole trip from school to home should have taken 6 hours at the most.  I think we took 12.  Once we got there though, I got my engagement ring!  I find it hilarious that the wedding was planned and in place before I even received my ring.  But I’m different like that.  A ring is a symbol and I didn’t need the ring to know he and I were serious about this.  I used to think I was a romantic but I’m not.

The week of Christmas was FULL of shopping and planning and decorating and organizing.  I  remember the day J went to get his brother from the airport.  I wanted to go with him so badly, but Mom wanted to hem my dress right then.  So J went without me; I put the dress on and we decided that the dress didn’t need to be hemmed after all, so I begged to borrow the vehicle and catch him.  I never did.  I finally came to my senses and turned around and returned home.  (Now when I think back, that dress should have been hemmed; I remember tripping on it or kicking it out of my way to walk across the floor.)

Wedding day arrived.  My parents did an amazing job of organizing and planning and “hiring” family and friends to fill in each spot that needed a special person to do the job.  I couldn’t have been more pleased.  A couple other things I remember, an aunt telling me to smile as I was walking down the aisle, my cousin Dale playing and singing “Other Side of Me”.  I remember J waiting for me at the front of the church.  My best friend, who was unable to attend, sent a message and a song that my uncle sang at the reception.  J having to break the icing on the cake with the butt of the knife so we could cut and share our cake!

We spent a couple of nights in hotels (gifts from guests) before leaving for the Bible Camp where J had worked that summer.  We stayed in one of the staff cabins and spent three days, just the two of us.  The rest of our honeymoon was spent settling in to our new home before school started the first week of January.

There have been many times in our marriage where we have come back to our wedding vows and evaluated whether we living those promises in our day to day life.  I think this is important to do, even on a casual basis, to bring us back to reality.  Life gets hard and tempers rise.  Work and kids “get in the way”.  We need to remember the covenant we entered that day in December 2000.

 

I take you, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God’s holy ordinance; this is my solemn vow.

 

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