Monday morning after my first class I checked my messages and had a urgent one from Josh, "Call me when you can, its important." I immediately called, assuming something bad had happened. The opening lines were, "I have good news and bad news." He proceeded to tell me about the eye surgery and the date and how it was the last opportunity, and I proceeded to get mad and say mean things and act irrationally. I think I even hung up on him. We had already decided that we were going to get married on Friday, the 18th at noon, and Lucas and Laura would be there, so when that had to change my feelings were obviously hurt. I calmed down about 5 minutes after the initial hang up, called back, and apologized. What's one day anyway right? Josh said, "We are lucky that we get to spend one more day married than we initially thought," and its true. Its not about the day, its about us...
So, we went to the courthouse in Killeen around 2:30 on Thursday, and were married by Justice of the Peace, Garland Potvin. In true Amanda style, I laughed the whole time. In true Josh style, he starred into my eyes lovingly and said every word perfectly. Was reminded how lucky I am to have found him, and now get to spend the rest of my life with him. Afterward we tried to celebrate with sushi at the restaurant we went to on our first date, but it didn't open until 5 and Josh had to go back to work (I'll get that in a minute). Instead, we had Red Lobster, where a toddler at the table beside ours flirted with me the whole meal. Then we came home, attempted to call our immediate family members, were unsuccessful, and Josh went back to work.
Josh is amazing, and I'm such a lucky woman to be his wife. Looking forward to an amazing future together.
Oh yea, Josh had some drama at work this week, so he had to spend our wedding evening taking care of that. What better way to start my life as a Company Commander's wife, right?
I read the blog late last night, but was too tired to comment. Thanks for posting pictures (and taking them)!
ReplyDeleteI told Jason your story about being mean to Josh on the phone reminds me of how I erupted into tears of anger when Jason left me for a very long afternoon at his apartment (with just a little homework) and came back hours after he said he would on a very pretty Saturday that I would have liked to spend with him. His excuse was something so trivial and came across as not caring at all. Little did I know that he had secretly been shopping for engagement rings with his mom, and I didn't find that out for over a month! He just had to act very sorry that day. Oops!
Anyway, I think you'll like this wedding day story better, because it was truly spontaneous, moreso than the Friday wedding day would have been.
And, always ask for the bad news first!
Congrats again!
There are more pictures, but Josh wants to crop them and "work" on them before I release them to the public, lol. Josh is right, its just a day, an important day, but we started our lives together months ago.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to officially be a Range. I spent yesterday at the Social Security office and DMV :)
What a great wedding story!! So happy for you guys...congrats!
ReplyDeleteI think its a good story too! Thanks!
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