Wow! it's been 34 years since Kim and I got married. Hard to believe that it's been that long. We haven't always had it easy, ok, we never really had it easy. But it has been a satisfying journey and I believe we are happy.
We were married on Friday the 13th in January 1989. It felt like the universe was conspiring against us. First, my car was not ready when it was supposed to be. Then 2 days before the wedding, I sprained my ankle at the top of the Hill Cumorah. My wedding dress was not ready until the morning we were to leave for the temple. We were driving down to the Washington DC temple from Syracuse NY. That morning there was an ice storm delaying the departure. Then in Pennsylvania, we were stopped for over an hour due to fog.
We finally made it down to the Temple in once piece. We were one of three couples scheduled to be sealed that day. The other two couples canceled so we were the only couple sealed that day. There was a little error with my husband's address on one of the documents but the temple workers got that fixed. I had misplaced my purse in one of the temple's offices. Which had me in a bit of a panic as we would be leaving Sunday to drive Utah and I would need my license. But the Temple workers were able to locate it quickly.
But once we left the temple as man and wife things settled down. We stopped by Gettysburg on the way back to Syracuse. Then we dropped by my parent's house before heading to the hotel. It was a memorable day. One I am happy to remember.
Some might say that our troubles on our wedding day were of our making for choosing to be married on Friday the 13th. But we understood that Friday the 13th was considered unlucky because the Templars were betrayed on Friday the 13th. We don't believe that Friday the 13th is unlucky and in fact we celebrate our anniversary on every Friday the 13th, not just January 13th.
Silly I know, but we love each other and celebrating our love when every we can keeps it alive.
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