Monthly Archives: June 2008
Honey, it’s been the best 7 years of my life, and I wouldn’t change a thing. I love you with all of my heart, and I can’t wait to marry you again tonight!
As a wedding photographer I’ve shared my client’s special days with you, but I don’t believe I’ve ever shared the story of my marriage to Hot Husband.
We got married on June 27th, 2001, on the beach in Jamaica. I wore a white bikini, and Hot Husband wore a white shirt and his swimming trunks, lol. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)(Thank God our photographer shot film and I don’t have a scanner, or I’d feel obligated to post a picture, lol.)
Anyway, we’d always planned to renew our vows in front of friends and family, but we lost Hot Husband’s parents within 18 months of our wedding, and for a while I don’t think we wanted to do it without them there. We also couldn’t make any decisions as far as planning went…we never wanted it to be a “big” thing, but I did feel that I wanted to wear a dress this time. That brought up more questions…should Hot Husband wear a tux? Should the boys? Should we have a cake? Where will this all take place? How many people do we invite? Who will take pictures?
Rather than answer all of those questions, we’ve kept putting it off. That is, until, we bought the Charger.
See, when we returned from Jamaica I tried to get a new driver’s license, but they wouldn’t accept our Jamaican marriage certificate as a form of ID. I was able to change my social security card, and with that purchase 3 houses, file tax returns, open bank accounts, etc., but my driver’s license still does not say Lisa Walsh. Now the DMV is on my case and won’t let me register the car in my married name. After 7 years I’m finally tired of it, so yesterday Hot Husband and I went down to the courthouse and got a home-grown, USA marriage license.
Tomorrow, on our 7 year anniversary, I will marry Hot Husband all over again. It’s going to be slightly bigger than our last ceremony, but it will just be the boys and Thelma’s family in attendance. Her father is a minister and will be performing the ceremony in her Mother’s garden. I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to wear…Thelma and I are going shopping tonight.
I don’t have a photographer on such short notice, so I’m going to do the best I can. I’ll be sure to post up pictures as soon as I can!
Hot Husband had a list of things he wanted to do for Father’s Day, and it included sleeping in, having a yummy breakfast, going hiking/fishing/canoing, a possible nap, and a yummy dinner. So while he was sleeping in Sunday morning, The Youngest and I decided we were going to take him to Watkins Glenn State Park for a hike.
We woke him up at 8 am so we could head out (Sleeping in. Check.) and we stopped at Dunkin’ Donuts along the way. (Yummy breakfast. Check.)
The Youngest hadn’t been to the Glenn before, and Hot Husband and I realized we hadn’t been there since before we got married, which also means I hadn’t shot there before.
I didn’t expect to get anything spectacular since it’s always so crowded, and I don’t have some tools I need for landscape shots with mixed lighting conditions, but I did the best I could and ended up with a few keepers. I can’t wait to go back in the evening when I can get some silky waterfall pictures!
Hot Husband had prepped some short ribs the night before, so I threw them in the oven when we got home, whipped up some mashed potatoes and baked beans, and opened up the last bottle of beer for him. (Yummy dinner. Check.)
He never did get his nap, but all in all I think it was a great Father’s Day.