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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums44 years ago...about right now...I was pounding down Martinis or Rusty Nails.
I don't remember which.
Maybe both.
It was my last night of bachelorhood and I was observing the time old tradition of getting shitfaced.
My buddies and I had reserved rooms at Martinetti's Motel in Crystal lake, Illinois and we were at the bar. I had been forced out of the cozy apartment that I had shared with the future Miz t. by her Matron of Honor, the wife of my Best Man.
"Honey, you can't spend the night before your wedding with the bride-to-be."
Fair enough, I guess.
It was next to an elopement.
We were engaged and I had met her family, but the decision to 'do the deed' was kind of spur-of-the-moment. They were fine with that and (I think) relieved not to have to travel from Houston to Chicago. My father-in-law had already married off two other daughters.
We had their blessing.
To say that I was hungover during the nuptials the next day would be a gross understatement.
I had the mother-of-all, thermonuclear-starburst hangovers.
Dropped the prayer book during the ceremony and was afraid to bend over to pick it up.
But I did.
Anyway...this inauspicious beginning led to (so far) 44 years of a warm, loving, enjoyable partnership; one wonderful daughter; a much loved son-in-law; and two fun grandchildren.
Who could ask for anything more?
mokawanis
(4,435 posts)44 years together, a daughter, a grandchild, a son-in-law you love...doesn't get any better than that!
(My wife and I will celebrate 31 years together in Aug.)
trof
(54,256 posts)Sources of constant delight.
Congratulations on your 31st anniversary.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)44 years is a true blessing in this day and age! May you have many, many more anniversaries to celebrate!
trof
(54,256 posts)In_The_Wind
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^^^ My newest wonderful feeling saying!
trof
(54,256 posts)This place is pricey as hell, but once a year?
I can do it.
http://jessesrestaurant.com/index.php/menu-wine
babylonsister
(171,029 posts)That's sweet, and you are both lucky! Mazel 'trof'!
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)but it's kind of sad that you don't love your other children.
trof
(54,256 posts)I didn't know.
I didn't realize you cared that little.
panader0
(25,816 posts)My "buddies" took me to a strip club and got me hammered.
I woke up the next day on the floor of a friends house.
It was an omen.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)Nice to hear about a happily married couple for so many years. Hope you have many, many more together.
siligut
(12,272 posts)You are a good role model for how to have a happy marriage and it seems more than a few grooms suffer from hangovers.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)damn, that must have been the way out country boonie sticks back then.
the sprawl ends a little past Route 47 now.
congrats!
trof
(54,256 posts)A year later we bought our first house in Lakewood, about 2 blocks from the lake.
$35,000.
Two bedroom, bath and a quarter (toilet and sink off the 'master' bedroom).
When I signed that first mortgage I was scared shitless.
"Oh. My. God. I have just signed my life away."