Today Julie, I wish you and your husband nothing but the very best.



I can offer two small bits of wisdom.

First for the Bride, never go to bed angry---always stay up and argue.

Second for the Groom, always remember those three magic words that will keep your marriage strong and your wife by your side---You're right, dear.

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A small pearl of wisdom for the groom...



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Congratulations, have a wonderful time, and thank you for the very cool invite!

well the big day is over & boy what an "interesting" day it was!! everything began great - beautiful weather, reception all set up, beer keg ready, food cookin, we head to the chapel. get in our fancy clothes, get a few pictures taken, watch the guests arriving, & suddenly i realize...the preacher isn't there yet. it's still 30 minutes til the wedding starts so i'm not in complete panic mode at this point. take a few more pictures, look out the window, pictures, window...no freakin preacher yet. now it's 15 minutes til & i am officially panicking!!! i finally get in contact with him on his cell phone & i ask him where he is?? this is what i hear on the other line...
'OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!' dude completely FORGOT about the wedding & he's an hour & a half away!!!!!! he's my hometown preacher in the church i've belonged to my entire life & he forgot my wedding???? way NOT cool!!! so, my maid of honor who knows the mayor of a small town in the area called him to see if he could help us find a minister in the area. his words were "I'M ON IT!!!" so, we have to announce that there's a delay to everyone - totally embarrassing!! and we wait for about 25 minutes, get a call from a minister who's within 5 minutes of us, & the next thing i know, he's rescuing us!! he had another wedding at 3pm so he ran in the back door of the chapel, said "i need to know your names", signs the wedding license, & marries us in about 5 minutes!!

not once did i fall apart, cry, or freak out - amazing!! and yes i know the most important part is that we got married but my preacher best keep his distance for a few day...mont...years!!!

tomorrow around this time, i'll be in mexico with a margarita in my hand, laying on the beach - trust me, we need it!!!

Lol. Quite hectic. At least it all worked out in the end.

And now to have some fun in Mexico. Have a great holiday!

Congrats 4PG. I wish you and your Vikings hubby (The dirtbag that he is) all the happiness in the world.

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Aww Illy......try to look at it this way......you have WAY more then a "normal" wedding memory! In the future you will be able to laugh about this!
It might not seem like it now, but you WILL laugh!

I bet your Dad was looking down, laughing, and saying "THAT will teach any daughter of mine for marrying a VIKINGS fan!!!"
Lots of love to you Illy!!!

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Congratulations on your big day and what a story you have to tell!!!!

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and the stories continue!!...man what a honeymoon we had!
monday - flew into mexico, got sent to the wrong resort, 3 hours later, we get checked in to the right resort. we were promised ocean view, honeymoon suite - didn't happen!

tuesday - we're informed we have to sit thru some bullshite sales deal becuz we got such a 'great' deal on our rooms. never sat thru a high-pressure sales thing - it sucked, we didn't buy, we went from being loved by everyone to instant hate - it was REAL fun!

wednesday & thursday - relatively uneventful, hit the beach, the ocean, went into playa del carmen to shop, came back to the resort for dinner. went to this brazilian place - food was inedible, left in the middle of the meal. (i've NEVER done that before)

friday - rented jetski & head out into the ocean, flipped it over, lungs, nose, mouth FULL of salt water - couldn't breathe. man that was 'fun' too.

saturday - nightmare getting out of the resort & to the airport. we get on a full plane only to have some psycho woman pitch a fit because she couldn't sit by her children. it's a frickin plane with a couple hundred people on it - wtf's gonna happen to her kids?? she delayed us at least 15 minutes with her nonsense. hit major turbulence during the majority of the flight.

i need a vacation from my vacation! 😞 😞

dang.....nice way to start out a marriage,it has to get better from here on out after all that

GL 🙂

Glad to hear you had such a "good time".

My wife and I sat thru that same damn sales pitch down in Orlando 27 years ago. They hated us too. We told the salesman no, he went and got his boss. No again. He went and got the dude running the whole show. No yet again. They were yelling so I yelled back. All three of them working me over at the same time. They were selling some dumb gimmicky thing called timesharing. I never heard of it and never thought it would last. I told them it made no sense for me to buy rental place before I bought a house. I told them we most likely wouldn't be back to Disney until 1) we had kids and 2) they were old enough to enjoy the experience so why buy property there instead of some place else.
We had to sit on a bus with the driver for at least a half an hour before he was allowed to take us back to our hotel. Actually we had him drop us off at a restaurant near our hotel. Everyone else in our group bought a timeshare so their real estate agents not only drove them back, they bought them lunch too.

4PG, I am sure that there were "moments" on your trip that made it all worth while.

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