It was a miserable day, let me tell you: 107 degrees and no working air conditioner in any building where I spent time all that day. I was hot and tired and grouchy as hell, esp. after the old fart of a preacher snuck in the “obey” part after I’d told him, specifically, to leave it out. Plus it was in a church, and no one I knew showed up except my Matron of Honor, who flew in from Dallas.
Me. A church. A long, hot, sticky white dress. It was not a recipe for joy.
But! It was the best thing I ever did, and I’d do it again, sweat and itchiness and grouchiness and stiflingly hot church, if I had to. All worth it.
My gift to him? A trip to Portland. His gift to me? Driving me there!
So here’s an old Anniversary Photo from two years ago:
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Oh, happy day to both of you!!! I hope the evening is very special...you are two very good people.
(hey)Jude
Blessings to the both of you for understanding and acting on your capacity to make one another happy. I wish you many more years together.
awwww, happy anniversary! I wish you at least another thirty two or thirty three years of happiness together!
Happy Anniversary!
thank you, sweeties!
Happy Anniversary- hope it was a great day!
Great photo!!!!
Congratulations on your 33rd anniversary !
love
peggy who is not "picky"
Happy Anniversary, Ricë and Earl!
My husband and I will also be married for 33 years this year in September. Would I do it all again...some days yes, but some other days I doubt it. I envy your steadfast certainty in the perfection of your relationship.
Your love for each other just shines through whenever you write about the things of your life together (and that you call him the EGE after all these years says it all too!)
Happy Day and many, many more years of happy days ahead.
shelley, i surely don't hold our relationship up as perfection for anyone else. i know it wouldn't work for many, many people--hell, 99% of the population would have killed me within the first year. but it's perfect for me: hard enough work that i have to pay attention, lovely enough that i've never regretted my choice.
and just in case anyone might think that means we never argue? oh, please. we both grew up honing our argumentative skills and have not let those lapse.
just in case anyone thought we sat around feeding each other bonbons and cooing, "oooh, my little snookums" at each other or something. icky!
oh, and one more thing: he IS The Ever-Gorgeous Earl, but i didn't start that as a compliment: i started it as a gritch because he hasn't visibly aged since i met him, while some of us (ahem) have--i groused that if we were the same color, people would think i was his mother, for pete's sake. and why is nature so cruel that way? huh?
Happy Anniversary! I wish you both much much more happiness and many many more years together!!
I love that photo! Any man who can make you that happy is definitely a keeper!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!! Here's to many many more wonderful years!!!
That's a GREAT photo of you two!!!
Happy Anniversary! I hope this has been a much better day for you two than that wedding day.
Happy anniversary! May you be hot and sticky together many more years.
happy anniversary to you two lovebirds ;)
32 or 33 years is awesome, and here's hoping you have many more wonderful years together ahead of you.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! You posted a cute photo, but I really would like to see the one of you in the itchy dress with or without the EGE.
Happy Anniversary.
38 for me this August. Some say that is a lot of work. Well, it wasn't. He is wonderful and we are devoted to each other, considerate of each others feelings, and any creative critizism is made between us for no one else to hear. And we laugh together and I can see that you do too. Very Important.
That's very cool that y'all have been married that long. Congratulations!
I'll be 25 years for us in September.
By the way, regarding your comment that people would think you were his mother if you were the same color... someone said to me one time that black people age much better than white people. I know, that sounds kind of racist, and I try not to lump people together like that, but I wonder if there's some truth to it.
So if you were black you might look younger, or if he were white maybe he would look older. But then you wouldn't be the same people that you are now, and maybe you never would have gotten married. Something to think about.
Happy Anniversary... and Happy Trails on you upcoming trip.
Darla
Ricë said: "hard enough work that i have to pay attention, lovely enough that i've never regretted my choice."
That is a great description of a good marriage!
PS ~ At least you and the EGE will never start looking like each other the way some of us folks do after 30 or 40 years together... What's up with that anyhow?!
yeah, isn't that weird? and then they start looking like their DOGS, too. makes you wonder about living in the same house with snakes. . . .
Happy Anniversary yesterday. Great shot of the two of you.
That is a wonderful photo. Here's to many many more wonderful years together.
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