Finally!!!

This Saturday, under a beautiful blue sky and a canopy of fall leaves, The Boy and I finally did it: We got married.

It's true that some days I didn't think it would even happen. We have certainly shared a lifetime worth of troubles already. But I like to think we are just getting it out of the way early. It's a niave and hopeful thought, but I am sticking with it.

As I said my vows a huge wave of realization passed over me. We were getting married. And it was everything I hoped it would be. I wanted to say 'Yes, I do' and I wanted to never turn back. I wanted to be with this man, for better or for worse, forever. Crazy.

I didn't wear the wedding dress I bought back in January - it just didn't feel right. We are planning on having a 'real' wedding with a cermony and reception in about a year when we (and all our guests) have recovered a little financially and can celebrate the day we had hoped to have in September.

At the restaurant about five hundred feet from us someone else was having a wedding. The music from their reception echoed through the leaves as we exchanged rings. Kiss tenderly set the tone for "I now pronounce you man and wife". As we kissed and held each other close a sweet and low "Mmm hmmmm" passed over us.

No Diggity, will forever be "our song."

 We were married!!! Finally!