However, I do have a scanned pic of our wedding day on my laptop, so I thought I'd share it.
It was Christmas Time 1992 - the church was already practically decorated so all I had to do was have a florist put up a few candles and burgandy bows! :) I love deep red roses, and they fit in with the Christmas colors (burgandy & forest green - not so much RED and GREEN) that I chose.
Sadly, you can not see the GREAT BIG BOW that is sitting on my rear end! I have no idea what we were thinking but so many of my friends during this time had the SAME BOW on their behinds too!!! My dress is so typical early 90s! Sequined top with lace and I loved the scalloped edges of the dress. My veil had little pearls scattered all over the tuille. My best friend wore the same veil for her wedding 6 months later.Even though we are Baptist, we got married in my aunt's pretty little country Methodist church by a preacher named Kim (yes, he was a man!) in a tiny town in East Tennessee. I was in transition at the time (just graduated college in May, was living with my grandma after my grandpa had died - and Dan had just gone active duty with the Army and was living in California), and my "home church" had just called a new pastor who I didn't really know. It was a perfect arrangement for the time.
We look so young! I had just turned 22, and my husband was going to be 25 in few days after the wedding. We were also SO thin!!! Ha! This was the least I had weighed ever in my life - I think my dress was like a size 6 (that's thin for a sturdy, German girl!), and my husband had like a 30 inch waist! Alas, it is no longer so. BUT we are happier now than we've ever been - and I wouldn't trade thin for the years of experience and love I have lived since our wedding day!
4 comments:
i think your dress is beautiful..
I think you both look dashing, beautiful dress Conny :)
Conny, that picture is so sweet. :) Sweeter still is the fact that y'all are still happily married! :)
What a beautiful wedding picture. The decorations and dress are both beautiful. I always liked the puffy bow on back though if I had put one I my backside... well there wouldn't have been much room for my brother to walk me down the isle :)
That's cute, "sturdy German girl"... I have always said of myself I was like a workhorse built for endurance, not for speed... but I must say I don't think I have ever been in clothes smaller that size 14... at least that I remember buying. My father's family was German/Russian and I take after his side of the family. If I were shorter I'd be the spittin' image of my Gramma.
Married later in life to my present husband after my first husband died. I didn't have a waist :)
Many, many happy years to you!!!
God bless you today and have a great week... thanks for commenting on my blog.
Mrs. Doug
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