The Beginning of Wednesday: 10/10/09 The Ceremony

Saturday, October 17, 2009

10/10/09 The Ceremony

I look around me and sometimes it's so hard to believe that this is my life. I know it sounds so cliche but it's what I've been thinking about lately.

My wedding (our wedding) was absolutely perfect. Everyone had an amazing time. It was such a blast to sit back and look at all the people who love and adore us, all there to celebrate with us. I saw old friends who I hadn't seen in years, constant companions, and significant others of friends who I met for the first time. It was a whirlwind, but so enjoyable (I hear the food was good too.)

Highlights of my wedding (and we'll start with just the ceremony) include:

The ceremony: The weather was perfect; it was beautiful. My brother-in-law spread the aisle with flower petals and pine cones. Our bentwood arbor was a dream, one of my best friends performed the ceremony, and my Pepe was there. He made it!! He even said "I hope you didn't think I'd let you run off and get married without me being here."

Walking down the aisle and seeing the sunlight peek through the multi-colored leaves, seeing my family waiting for me, I looked at Aaron and thought "How does this happen? How did I get so lucky? This is everything I could have ever wanted."

Per my request, the DJ played Creedence just as we had our first kiss, I remember thinking, "Jessi, remember this moment."

Once we were inside people told us how beautiful and original it was; exactly the look I was going for. What we found adorable was that people also said "We couldn't hear your vows?" Hahaha, yes, we know! Those were for us only. We made promises, secret promises, to each other. I think you all know that if I want to project my voice, I have no problem doing so.

There is so much I want to share, my bachelorette party, the rehearsal dinner, the reception, and the honeymoon but alas I want to spend time with the man I married. Not to fear, I'm back to my old blogging ways (now that 14 months of planning is done, I don't know what I'm going to do with myself.)

Many more pictures, thoughts and details to come.

1 comment:

Stephani said...: Cant wait for more!; October 17, 2009 at 6:50 PM

Quotes that define my life:

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -- Rudyard Kipling
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Unknown
"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." -- E. Lutzer
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and the music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.” -- Lord Byron
"There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help." -- Mr. Rogers
"If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." -- Persian Proverb
"Real peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mountains we climb

+ Currently: Life
+ Magalloway Mountain: Pittsburg, NH: 3,350 ft. Fire tower @ summit
+ Uncanoonuc Mountains: Goffstown, NH; Elevation: North Peak 1,324 ft. South Peak, 1,321 ft. *Indian Translation: "woman lying down" or "breasts"*
+ Mt. Major: Alton Bay, NH: Approx 4 mi. round trip; 1,100 ft. @ summit.
+ Monument Mt., Berkshire Area, MA: Approx 3 mi. round trip; *Beautiful waterfall* 1,735 ft @ summit.
+ Welch-Dickey- Loop Trail, Waterville Valley Area: 4.4 mi. round trip; 2,605 ft. @ Welch summit, 2,734 ft. @ Dickey summit.
+ Mt. Kearsarge- Barlow Trail, Winslow State Park, Wilmot: 2.8 mi. round trip; 2,937 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Monadnock- White Dot Trail, Jaffrey: 4.2 mi. round trip, 3,165 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Layafette- Old Bridle Path, Franconia Notch State Park: 8 mi. round trip, 5,260 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Cardigan- East Side Loop, Alexandria: 5.3 mi. round trip, 3,121 ft @ summit. * some of the mountain was left bare from a fire in 1855
+ Mt. Morgan & Mt. Percival- Squaw Mountains, Holderness & Center Sandwich: 5.1 mi. round trip; 2,220 & 2,212 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Osceola- White Mountain National Forest: 6.4 mi. round trip, 4,340 ft. @ summit

Mission Statement

This blog is much like my home. When you click on my blog you cross a boundary into my world; what I would like to be a judgment free world. You’re in my house now. Don’t come in if you want to pollute my environment with negativity.

As a guest in my home would you pick apart my style, critique my furniture, or want me to spend your entire visit complaining about my life's trials and tribulations? No. The same goes for my blog. You’re a guest here. The virtual world is a "boundary" between what I am going to post here, and what goes on in my “real life.”

This is my forum. Much like if you were a guest in my house, I would scurry around cleaning up, presenting to you my best self. I do the same with my writing. You come here for a smile, an anecdote, a laugh, or a oui. You don't come here to hear about the bad parts of my life. Just because I don't post about them, doesn't mean they don't exist. That part of me just happens to be none of your business.

I choose to blog about things that make me happy, things I want to look back on and relish. I am constantly recovering (on a daily basis) from things that are unpleasant, I need no reminders via written word. That is what my diary is for. If that omission makes it appear as though my life is easy, then you are more than welcome to turn back now, don't waste your time. I have an amazing group of people who I can vent to and get feedback in regards to those matters, I don’t have an overwhelming urge to hang my dirty laundry out to dry in front of strangers.

My greatest fear about blogging is that someone, anyone, would rob me of this right. To instill in me a need to gauge my every word, for me to feel intimidated to speak, to share, or to write. I would never take that privilege, liberty, or luxury from any one person. It’s not mine to take. If you're here for the taking, I hope you come up empty.