“20 minutes, Door to Door, No One Sings” was my one requirement for our wedding ceremony. In retrospect, this is a little too bad, because I do enjoy some good music (also too bad: I forgot to pick ANY music for the ceremony itself, prompting Mike’s ex wife to shuffle through her iPod frantically looking for an instrumental and plugging it in literally as my dad and I walked into the building) (Thanks Kristen!) (For those who are new here: yes, she was there. Her boyfriend’s band was our wedding band. It was lovely to have her and him involved, especially so they could be a part of Sammy being a part of our wedding. I married into a family, y’all.) (I over-explain this too much, always.)
Anyway! 20 minutes, door to door, no one sings! That makes it sound like I didn’t CARE about the wedding ceremony, which is…maybe true, but also not accurate. I did care, and I loved our ceremony. My godfather was the officiant, the readings were meaningful to me, and I loved loved loved our vows. (Speaking of readings: DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO PICK READINGS FOR A SECOND WEDDING? Considering most wedding readings come down on the side of “one true love for every one person, forever and ever” and, well. That’s a little AWKWARD. There are VERY FEW sentimental wedding appropriate readings that go something like “well, people find each other when they need to, and isn’t that lucky, and in no way invalidates that love that was once shared by two people who had a child together but then decided to mutually go their separate ways”, ya know?
I have completely lost the plot of this entry, which was not intended to be about our wedding ceremony (recap: I dug it) or the wedding itself (recap: I also dug THAT). It’s that today is our anniversary, and I’ve been musing about our wedding.
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This weekend we test drove a Tesla. It’s an all electric sports car, and one of the only showrooms is in the mall by our house, and Mike’s a car geek and a pilot and likes things that go vroooom (even though, ironically, because it’s electric, it does not go vrooom.) Not because we have any intention of ordering a Tesla (do I need to clarify that we’re not buying a $90,000 car? Internet: we are not buying a $90,000 car), but because it’s cool, it was there, and it’s nice to dream. And so for our anniversary, I got Mike a Telsa t-shirt, as just a little hat tip to him, and to us, and how much fun we have together future planning and dreaming and living our lives.
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Speaking of living our lives:
Looks like we’ve done gone and fucked it up. Or made it more awesome. Possibly – probably – both.
Littlest Teubner, coming at the end of the year. Later than we ever planned, but also entirely too soon.
InnerTeub 
That wedding plan makes me anticipate with great pleasure your birth plan.
CONGRATULATIONS!
(And I love hearing the married-into-a-family stuff. I never get sick of it. It gives me happy feelings to see people being so sensible and nice in a tricky situation.)
Haaaa, Swistle, here is the entirety of what I have considered for a birth plan:
“20 minutes, door to door, no one sings”
Actually, that’s a joke, but now that I’m thinking more about it, it doesn’t sound too shabby.
Ok, all jesting aside, birth plan!: I would like to have a baby at the end of the birth, and if at all possible would like to avoid any situation in the process that would make a medical student go “oooh, that’s really fascinating”.
Oh, Liz. I love this post. Happy anniversary and happy… baby-cooking? Er.
You know, sometimes I’ll be going about my business of being a creeper on Twitter and I’ll get kind of excited and think, “LIZ IS PREGNANT!”
Strange? Yes. Happy for you? A million times over.
Heeee NOT strange. I love it. Thanks for being excited for me/us. It’s… well, it’s starting to feel exciting 🙂
Excellent birth plan. (And wedding plan.)
I love “20 minutes, door to door, no one sings” as a birth plan. Sounds excellent. And congrats again! So exciting!