Anniversary Anthropomorphism Runs Amok!

[dr_pretentious]

Sixteen years ago today, Dan and I got married. Coincidentally, sixteen is also how old I was when Dan and I first met. There were several years in between, of course, but the symmetry has my attention today. If our marriage were a person, it would be prepping for the SAT and going on college tours.

Our marriage is actually a lot nicer than I was as a teenager. It's sometimes temperamental, of course, but it's more resilient, better able to tell what's a big deal and what's not, than the average sixteen-year-old is. And parenthood at fourteen has been surprisingly good for it.

So Happy Birthday, marriage. You're doing great.

Comments

[spindlewand.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on what sounds like 16 relatively happy years!

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I was just thinking about your wedding day the other day. I remember driving like a crazy thing to get there, and getting lost and going the wrong way on the Beltway (remember back in the days before we had Google maps?) and your beautiful dress, and trying to put your makeup on as quickly as possible before the ceremony...fun times!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

What a complicated, wonderful day that was. Following up the reception with a mass exodus to Putt Putt in our wedding finery produced some of my favorite photos of our old crowd.

[showingup.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary!

I'm so proud of your teen pregnancies :D

[annathepiper]

Congrats to you both. :)

[onyxtwilight.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, dear ones. Clapping, joyous singing and much celebration!

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

I remember forgetting my lines. :)

Felicitations to all of you.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I remember being beset by bees who wanted to investigate my bouquet and the wreath of flowers on my head. A wedding, even a good one where everybody has fun, is actually an accumulation of near misses and minor calamities, in some cases punctuated by a major calamity (Dan's grandmother needing to leave the reception by ambulance, in our case), and if everyone is very lucky, the bride and groom have a chance to get married at some point before the day ends.

The felicity, however, is holding up pretty well.