Here comes the Bride

Who knew that you could get on the Internet and 15 minutes and $30 later you can be an ordained minister. Well I found out this week that there is an ordained minister living in my home. Tuesday we had a wedding ceremony in our front room. I know, when you think of a weddings you think church or park, candles, flowers and decorations. The wedding at my house was like everything else in my life ... very different. We start with the bride and groom who i have met twice and as far as I can tell they had only met five times before the ceremony. The bride's thirteen year old son, who lived with us for several months. The groom's eight year old grandson. The bride's sister who is the Internet minister. The bride's nieces, one of whom is my granddaughter, me and three dogs. The bride and groom stand facing each other in the front room with the boys standing up for their parents. A beautiful background of our breakfast dishes on the dining room table, luckily I received a few vases of flowers when I was in the hospital that were sitting on the table, so we did have flowers . The minister standing in front of them with her spiral notebook, the dogs running up and down the hall barking and playing and me and the girls sitting on the couch. And the ceremony begins. Do you take him ... do you take her ... they are staring into each others eyes, the girls are looking at the bride and groom with odd looks on their faces, probably wondering why every young girl gets all worked up about getting married if you are just going to do it in the front room and when can we turn Mickey Mouse Club house back on the TV. The boys were having a hard time standing still and not laughing but the love birds were in their own little world. They repeat their vows and Shirley announces "I would like to introduce you to Mr and Mrs .... Kurt and Rachel ....." She looks at me and shrugs her shoulders and says "I don't know his last name." I chuckle to myself and wonder, is this really my life and where is the cake? After I thought about the happenings of the day, I decided that if we had it to do again, I would make a couple of changes. I would have let the bride hold my hospital flowers and instead of the dining room they could stand in front of our cucumber archway in the garden, they could have cut the zucchini bread that my mom made and feed that to each other and we could have all washed it down with a mug of best choice diet root beer. The ceremony ended, the TV came back on and it was like it was just another day.