originally posted on Jona’s New Life
July 20, 2008 at 3pm, finally is the day that me and Andy had always been waiting for, our wedding day.
It was a fine sunny day, usual day here in Texas. I got out from the
house early morning to at least follow the tradition that the bride and
groom would not see each other on the day of their wedding until the
wedding ceremony. Well, it didn’t happen coz Andy woke up before I was
able to get out from the house.
Me and Yvonne, Andy’s sister and my maid of honor, left the house
and went to their parents house. Then we brought the cakes together
with the foods that would be putting on the fridge at the reception
place and made the final touch-up so that we don’t have to worry about
it later. After we ate our lunch, Yvonne started to work on my make-up.
Then we went to the parlor to have our hair done. I ended up curling my
hair coz when I saw it from their catalogue, I immediately fell in love
with the hairstyle. Me and Andy’s Mom was done at the right time but
Yvonne’s hairstylist had problem doing the hairstyle that Yvonne
wanted. Finally, she’s done at 2:10. Yes, 2:10pm and the wedding is
3:00pm.
It was so nerve-wracking! We hurry up that I was able to put on my
gown and shoes for I think less than a minute. I don’t want to be late,
of course. Thank God, we already have everything we wanted and Andy’s
mom made sure that she got everything: the bouquets, ring pillows, etc.
By 2:20pm, we’re on our way to the church. Yvonne is overspeeding
already, but we need to take risk than to be late on my wedding. Oh
God! That was so exciting. Honestly, with that experience, it finally
sank into me that I am getting married at that moment. LOL. We did a
great job with that. We arrive 5 minutes before 3pm on the church. I
went straight to the rest room to have a quick look at the bride. Oh
God, I know I am beautiful on my wedding gown. "This is it!", that’s
what I keep telling myself. And I can’t believe how the butterflies got
into my stomach. LOL.
Finally, my acting father, Brother Ran, a deacon from the church,
called me coz the ceremony will start. Then I heard the organ play. It
was a different hymn for the wedding party though until my way was
clear and all I could see was Andy waiting for me at the end of the
aisle. I can’t really tell what his facial expression was coz I was too
far from him that time and I don’t have that clear vision. I didn’t
realize that I was tensed that time until Brother Ran kept telling me
to relax. I tried to relax myself but I couldn’t help it, it’s my
wedding day, but I am very sure that I was smiling while I walk down
the aisle, but once I came face to face with Andy and saw the tears of
joy that wanting to drop down from his eyes, I couldn’t help myself but
cry. I couldn’t believe how happy I am that day. Though my wedding was
not complete coz my parents were not there, but just marrying Andy made
my day complete, and I know my parents are happy about that.
After the processional was the preaching which was the most
important part coz it tells our role as husband and wife, as parents to
our son and our future kids, and as individual Christians. Then the
exchanging of vows followed which made me cry more. It was a very
wonderful feeling to hear Andy promise his life to me and I to him in
front of his family, some Church friends, and most especially in God.
We also have our own personal vows written on our website, Love in Distance.
After that, we wore our rings to each other and then the minister ,
Brother Dennis, finally announced us as husband and wife. Of course,
one of the highlights of the wedding followed, "You may now kiss the
bride", as the minister told Andy and I can clearly hear our audience’s
applause, but the cameraman (I think) made a joke on us, by letting us
repeat the kiss about 4 times coz he didn’t got it with his camera coz
he’s not a professional, which kinda entertaining to our audience too.
Finally, we had the signing of contract together with our primary
sponsors as our witnesses.
After exchanging of Hi’s and Hello’s
in the Church and some picture taking, we proceeded not to the
reception place yet but to Andy’s parents house to have our first dance
there since we can’t dance on the reception as one of the rules in the
Church which we understand and respected. We danced with David
Pomeranz’s wonderful song, "On this day", at Andy’s parents house’s
front yard.
Then
we went to the reception place. At 6:30 in the evening, the food was
served and Andy’s Dad made a great job with the food. He did the
cooking with the help of his brother, Uncle George. Then we had the
slicing of the cake where we follow their so-called family tradition.
See it for yourself on the following picture:
After
the stuffing of cakes on our face (LOL), the bestman, Tyson, Andy’s
workmate when he was still working at Domino’s, gave his speech. I
can’t remember the exact words that he said but it goes like Andy has
been telling him about me eversince we met and he had never talked
about anything else but me. Then the maid of honor, Andy’s sister,
Yvonne, gave a short but touching speech. She said, "I wanna thank Jona
coz my brother had never smiled like how he smiles now". And guess
what?! It made me cry again. Then it’s time for me and Andy to say our
speech. We didn’t want it to be another sentimental one, so we just
simply thank everyone who came into wedding and celebrated that very
important and special day of our life as couples now. Then we went out
of the reception hall to do the catching of garter and bouquet. It was
such a surprise that there’s only one single man on the wedding
reception, Clay, one of the groom’s men so he got the garter. Then
Faith, one of the bride’s maids caught the bouquet.
The
bird’s seeds was then threw at us as we ran to our car to escape from
it, then waved to everyone as we headed our way to the our honeymoon,
San Antonio TX.
That
was our whole wedding day and I would always remember that for the rest
of my life, I hope until beyond death. I may never remember the whole
detail of it again, but good thing I got them all on our website, Love in Distance.
Andy
was one of the wonderful things that happened in my life. He’s
everything I wanted for a husband. You may say that I am saying that
this soon but I know what I believed in and I’ll stick to that coz our
relationship is not just about physical or emotional, but it includes
spiritual which what made us found each other and made each other’s
lives complete.
This is the bride, signing off. Happy reading!! Buh-bye! 
