Getting Married
The ceremony and reception both took place in the Stained Glass Hall of the Bolger Center in Potomac, MD. It was a perfect and beautiful setting, perfectly fitted to the 130 guests who attended.
There were 5 Bridesmaids and 1 Matron of Honor and 5 Groomsmen and 1 Best Man.
The Bridesmaids chose their own floor length dresses from David's Bridal in the color Holly Green. The Matron of Honor did the same except that her color was Cognac. The Groomsmen wore cutaway tuxes from Men's Warehouse with matching green vests and bowties, the Best Man wore his father's tux with a vest and bowtie that matched the Matron of Honor's dress.
DH wore tails, from Men's Warehouse, and I wore a dress that I bought from I Do I Do Bridals in Rockville, MD.
There were 5 Bridesmaids and 1 Matron of Honor and 5 Groomsmen and 1 Best Man.
The Bridesmaids chose their own floor length dresses from David's Bridal in the color Holly Green. The Matron of Honor did the same except that her color was Cognac. The Groomsmen wore cutaway tuxes from Men's Warehouse with matching green vests and bowties, the Best Man wore his father's tux with a vest and bowtie that matched the Matron of Honor's dress.
DH wore tails, from Men's Warehouse, and I wore a dress that I bought from I Do I Do Bridals in Rockville, MD.
The look on DH's face as I come down the aisle pretty much says it all.
We were lucky enough to be assigned an Intern Photographer (for free!) through the photography company we used and he managed to get some AMAZING shots and cadids while the lead photographer was concentrating on the traditional and big picture photos.
We were lucky enough to be assigned an Intern Photographer (for free!) through the photography company we used and he managed to get some AMAZING shots and cadids while the lead photographer was concentrating on the traditional and big picture photos.
Our first reading: Excerpt of a Quote by Rosemarie Urquico
"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You'll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She's the one lovingly looking over shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants.
She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she's kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book. Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce's Ulysses she's just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or if she would like to be Alice.
It's easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality, but by God she's going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things will come to an end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 am clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for awhile, they are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she's sick.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn't burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat and the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours, and half-baked proposals, then you're better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who read."
"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You'll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She's the one lovingly looking over shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants.
She's the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she's kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author's making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book. Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce's Ulysses she's just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or if she would like to be Alice.
It's easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality, but by God she's going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things will come to an end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 am clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She'll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for awhile, they are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she's sick.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn't burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat and the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours, and half-baked proposals, then you're better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who read."
Vows
Adam - Jennifer, in the name of God, I take you to be my husband/wife from this time onward.
To join with you and to share all that is to come, to give and receive, to speak and to listen, to inspire and to respond, and in all our life together to be loyal to you with my whole being, as long as we both shall live.
To join with you and to share all that is to come, to give and receive, to speak and to listen, to inspire and to respond, and in all our life together to be loyal to you with my whole being, as long as we both shall live.
I love the look our reader (one of my best guy friends) is giving DH here.
2nd Reading - From the Exiles Trilogy by Melanie Rawn
Wear me not as a ring on your finger -
Your hand needs no adorn.
Wear me not as a circle of jewels at your throat -
To jewels and wealth you were born.
Wear me not as a song on your lips by night -
For such are forgot by morn.
No, not as a ring on your finger -
Removed for washing and lost.
No, not as a circle of jewels at your throat -
So others may see the cost.
No, not as a song on your lips by night -
To still with the dawn's cold frost.
Wear me instead as a woolen cloak,
to keep you safe and dry.
Wear me instead as a Saint-forged sword,
and keep me always by.
Wear me instead as this vow on your heart:
"Yours until I die."
2nd Reading - From the Exiles Trilogy by Melanie Rawn
Wear me not as a ring on your finger -
Your hand needs no adorn.
Wear me not as a circle of jewels at your throat -
To jewels and wealth you were born.
Wear me not as a song on your lips by night -
For such are forgot by morn.
No, not as a ring on your finger -
Removed for washing and lost.
No, not as a circle of jewels at your throat -
So others may see the cost.
No, not as a song on your lips by night -
To still with the dawn's cold frost.
Wear me instead as a woolen cloak,
to keep you safe and dry.
Wear me instead as a Saint-forged sword,
and keep me always by.
Wear me instead as this vow on your heart:
"Yours until I die."