Okay, so all we did was change our Facebook status from engaged to married yesterday and that set off a barrage of congratulatory emails that was simply overwhelming.  Neither of us know how to truly thank everybody for their good wishes, funny comments and especially the big curiosity question of who was the photographer!

If nothing else I want to share the background of what happened yesterday.   Sheila and I had been dating for a year and a half, when we decided to move in together at the end of last April.  We’ve known each other since second grade, but were never friends through high school.  The friendship started up when I attended a high school reunion three years ago.

We had decided to get married in late August and even had invitations printed up for a backyard wedding.  We wanted very badly to have my folks here with us, but knew with their health problems that was unlikely.  So, we really started thinking about what most important to us.  We’ve both been married before, so it wasn’t our first rodeo!  The more we thought about it, the more we wanted to find a way for my folks to be a part of the day.

Yesterday was my parent’s 63rd wedding anniversary and it just made sense to take advantage of the great karma and get married on their anniversary date.  So at 7:00 am yesterday morning, Sheila’s friend Karen, the Chaplain at Akron Children’s Hospital where they both work, married us on our back patio with Molly the Wonder Dog as our witness.   The “wedding” could not have been more wonderful or had more meaning for the two of us.

So, thank you for your good wishes.  Thank you for continuing to show that social media is faster than the “grapevine” ever was.  And thank you for being such an important part of an industry I love so much.

Oh, and the answer to who was the photographer – oops, we didn’t have one.  But I did have a Flip set up on a tripod that captured the moment and the rest of the event was all shot on “neuro-chromes”!

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Happy Wednesday everybody – make it a great one!