Today is the 37th Anniversary of our wedding day. Dave and I got married in the courthouse in Rockford and it provided plenty of material for funny stories. Ten years ago I posted this on Facebook and it popped up today.
In 2012 I posted a memory on Facebook on our anniversary
Here’s what it says in case the image doesn’t show up:
Today is a funny, happy memory day. 27 years ago, Dave and I stopped in a courthouse and got married. We had planned to do that for 4 years running during that week of vacation, but one or the other would get cold feet.
We had a suite reserved for a honeymoon, but when we stopped at home, the cat was in labor so we cancelled and stayed. Nothing would do but she had the kittens in a box at the foot of our bed and woke us up all night long to show us each new baby.
We could hardly ever remember the exact date of our anniversary, so all those years we had together we celebrated this whole week and any time we wanted to make an extravagant purchase, we would bring it home and say “wedding present!”
Time to revive an anniversary tradition
I used to love bringing frivolous things home and claiming they were a “wedding present”. The purchases were usually household things like fancy cocktail glasses or fun dishtowels. I’m trying to remember a few of the more extravagant buys, but nothing impressed me enough to remember I guess. But this story has made me feel like a trip to Home Goods to revive a feel-good anniversary tradition.
