Ladies and gentlemen,
and all those inbetween ... I am getting married ... again! Although I will leave out a LOT of personal (and tragic) information, here's the short story: Back in 1986 I met the most beautiful woman in the world. We had a relationship for nearly 2 years that was intense both mentally and physically. Let's just say she taught me things I
thought I already knew, minus the distant sultry saxaphone of course.
Unfortunately we split due to very personal issues and lost touch over the following year. Life went on and we met and married other people. 20 years later, during the midst of my divorce we got in touch again through Classmates.com. The funny thing is, a year prior to this she had apparently come accross my name through a friend of a friend and sent me a message asking if I was the guy she had dated all those years ago. Because I had really never paid attention to Classmates.com after signing up, I had no idea that anyone had sent me a message; until one day I just happened to check the Inbox. So yeah, a full year after she sent me that note, I responded. We were now living 80 miles from each other, she had been seperated from her husband for 2 years and I was freshly divorced from my 'practice wife'. We decided to meet again and from there, 4 years later, things moved forward to today. I love her so much; I missed her all those years as she missed me too. I have been through Hell with her and back; and will continue to do so because she's worth all the fire and brimstone. We are rejoining the institution to reclaim what was rightfully ours on February 14th ... her idea.
But as we venture into our wedded bliss, expect no big shin-dig like the first time around (believe me, my 1st wedding was huge and $$$) ... this time it's just for us, and no dog-n-pony show.
... We met in 1986 originally. We met again 4 years ago.
Local and national press was there to cover it in both video and story - CBS12, NBC5, Palm Beach Post, Sun Sentinel and the Associated Press are the ones I knew about. In the video from CBS Channel 12, the couple sitting next to us were highlighted in the newsreel and had an eerily similar story to ours! Really nice people. We made it into some of the highlights too, but no 1-on-1 interview. My son took the pics below (except the group shots from The Palm Beach Post), and I must say they are very good considering he was about 50 feet away under the shaded pavilion. All-in-all it was a beautiful day (72 degrees and sunny) and a really unique way to wed; obviously we were/are thrilled!
