On this date 19 years ago I married the love of my life, and became Mrs. John Charles Mark. It started off the night before when I slept over at Luanne's house and we were playing jacks on the floor of her kitchen. I'm sure alcoholic beverages were involved at some point :) We finally managed to get some sleep (after the talking & giggling of course), but it wasn't a real good night's sleep, if you could imagine. The next morning I awoke to the smell of Egg's Benedict which Lucy (Luanne's mom) was making for us in the kitchen along with mimosas! Yummy! Shortly afterwards I ran around town looking for just the right sexy undergarments to wear. There's nothing like waiting until the very last minute! I ended up having to borrow a beautiful bustier from Jennifer (Luanne's sister-in-law) for under my dress. Believe me, it was definitely sexy and did the job. After that, I was off to the salon for makeup. I hired a professional makeup artist who apparently worked on several celebrities over the years, so I knew I was in good hands. As soon as she finished we raced home for Chris Bradley to do my hair for the big day. Chris had always cut my hair at that point, but didn't feel comfortable doing it for my wedding for some reason. I begged him and he finally said that he would. It was the afternoon at this point and the wedding started at 5:00, so I was starting to panic. Once my hair was done, the photographer showed up to get some pre-wedding shots, but he didn't look anything like who John had described. He then goes on to explain that he wasn't the photographer that John had hired because apparently our guy had to have an emergency root canal and couldn't make it. Had we known at this point that he would have ruined half of our pictures, been rude to the children, and skipped town before we could purchase our video and get our order complete, we would have somehow had somebody else step in for our big day. The limo showed up and drove us to The Hikoni Japanese Gardens in Saratoga where we had my cousin Harold marry us outdoors in front of all of our family and friends. What a wonderful day. It was beautiful outside and I was marrying the sweetest, most loving man in the world. How could I possibly ask for more? Well I am. I'm hoping for one more year with this amazing man, for then we will have made it to the 20 year mark. I know our love story is unfortunately going to be cut short, but what's one more year I ask? It's everything.
I ask that you please pray for me to hang in there at least one more year, if anything, to be with my sweetheart. Thank you.
Peace to you all ~ Love, Genie
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As I wipe the tears away, I am praying for 5 more.....10 more.....
ReplyDeleteI love you both and remember that day like it was yesterday.
Happy Anniversary.
Dearest Genie: I look forward to at LEAST 10 or 15 more years, BUT what ever the Lord allows us will have to do!!! Thanks for the most touching replay of that BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the visual sounds like you have great memories of a very special day. I'm praying for you to have many more years with your husband. You deserve it, and so does he. See you soon!
ReplyDeleteLove you, glad you had fun at the family reunion too!