The wedding announcement carries with it the beaming, glowing face of a beautifully blushing bride. It wasn't until I read the announcement that I was shocked and amazed. I considered contacting them to say, "Whoa, Nellie! Slow it down a bit there, buckaroos. You're making the rest of us married folk look bad."
Apparently, the bride designed her own dress, worn while she and the groom recited personally written vows. I think she also baked the cake, decorated the reception hall and picked each song on the DJ's 500-item playlist. She also hand-sewed her bridesmaids' dresses, including creating the guilded thread. The groom wove his own tux on a family heir-loom. He and his groomsmen actually built the reception hall from scratch. The Bible from which the preacher read a few hand-picked love scriptures was written in longhand by the bride's cousin (both Old and New Testaments – King James version). Rose petals tossed in front of the happy couple were grown by the groom's aunt. The groom's uncle restored a 1962 Corvette for the couple to drive away in, which the groom hand-waxed the night before.
After a honeymoon to the southern tropics, to which they piloted their own homemade airplane, the couple built a four-bedroom honeymoon suite from bamboo and wired it for electricity and high-speed Internet. On their return to Texas, the couple renovated a late 19th-century Gothic Victorian castle by themselves, milling lumber and recreating miles of intricate trimwork.
Besides working as a kindergarten teacher, mortgage broker and scenic river guide, the bride enjoys reading books in one day and cooking complicated meals from recipes in their original Greek. The groom is a plumber, electrician, landscape artist, lion tamer and poet. They intend to raise 12 children, donating their spare time to a life of giving to charity. Good luck, buckaroos. Don't move to my neighborhood!
What I enjoy even more is reading the anniversary announcements. You can't really tell how happy a couple is by the snapshot in time accompanying photos represent. But sometimes they offer hints. Are the husband and wife genuinely smiling? Are they touching each other, close together and comfortable? The text offers some clues as well: How many years have they been married? How many times did they move? What do they do now that the kids are grown and gone? It becomes clear that it's not about money, or material accomplishments, that keeps people together. It's love, and so much more. And sometimes the things left out of our lives are just as important as what we put in them.
In the same Sunday paper, there was an anniversary announcement to give the newlywed overachievers some hope for a solid future. After 50 years, a couple renewed their vows – and the bride wore her husband's grandmother's wedding dress previously used in 1900. Only an overachiever could pull off something like that!
Wow..if I can fit into my grandmother-in-law's wedding dress when I'm 70+ years old, I will die happy.
Yikes...I'll second the teahouseblossom.
That's not over-achieving. That is mentally ill and having too much time on your hands.
If the newlyweds were Amish, the only things there that would really be all that shocking would be the honeymoon. And maybe the Corvette.
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