Post by Garys_Girl on Dec 16th, 2008 at 10:32pm
A week from this Friday, the day after Christmas, Gary and I celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary!
We met in 1979. I was a Jr. in high school. He would have been a Sr. if he was still in school, but he and school parted ways two years earlier. I didn't know then we were meant to be together. He did.
We dated until I left for college. I went to a Quaker College. He joined the army.
12 years later he tracked me down. He was in Seattle. I was in NY. We talked on the phone every night for hours and hours for three months. I got on a plane on Christmas day and flew out there. He asked me to marry him, and I said yes without any hesitation. OK. So our first wedding wasn't technically the legal one, but we said our vows and made our commitment. I flew back to New York. He packed his things and drove cross country in the worst Winter storm of the 90s. He made it in three days.
Gary is my one true love, my soulmate, my best friend, and my partner in life and for life.
We've spent the last 15 years making up for the 12 we missed spending together. We are also partners in business; we spend 24 hours a day together. We've never spent the night apart and hope we never have to.
We get to celebrate our legal 15 years on July 26. :)
Sadly, we don't have any pics from December 1993.
But here we are on our July wedding day. (In the 7 months, we got rid of the apartment and most of our stuff, bought an RV, drove from NY back to Seattle, then from Seattle up to the Alaska Highway, fishing and gold panning. We got married again at mile 0 of the Alaska Highway - Dawson Creek, BC. We let family know 2 days before, knowing full well they'd never be able to make it up in time. We love them dearly but it was a glorious day!)
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Laurie *grinning like crazy with such happy memories*
We met in 1979. I was a Jr. in high school. He would have been a Sr. if he was still in school, but he and school parted ways two years earlier. I didn't know then we were meant to be together. He did.
We dated until I left for college. I went to a Quaker College. He joined the army.
12 years later he tracked me down. He was in Seattle. I was in NY. We talked on the phone every night for hours and hours for three months. I got on a plane on Christmas day and flew out there. He asked me to marry him, and I said yes without any hesitation. OK. So our first wedding wasn't technically the legal one, but we said our vows and made our commitment. I flew back to New York. He packed his things and drove cross country in the worst Winter storm of the 90s. He made it in three days.
Gary is my one true love, my soulmate, my best friend, and my partner in life and for life.
We've spent the last 15 years making up for the 12 we missed spending together. We are also partners in business; we spend 24 hours a day together. We've never spent the night apart and hope we never have to.
We get to celebrate our legal 15 years on July 26. :)
Sadly, we don't have any pics from December 1993.
But here we are on our July wedding day. (In the 7 months, we got rid of the apartment and most of our stuff, bought an RV, drove from NY back to Seattle, then from Seattle up to the Alaska Highway, fishing and gold panning. We got married again at mile 0 of the Alaska Highway - Dawson Creek, BC. We let family know 2 days before, knowing full well they'd never be able to make it up in time. We love them dearly but it was a glorious day!)
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