Remembered Essay

A Day That Will Never Be Forgotten It was the morning of what was about to be a one the most significant days of my life, the date was December 11, 2010, my wedding day. I was still tired and jetlagged from the flight home from my deployment overseas just a couple days prior. It was about to be a busy day due to the fact that I had returned home a week later than planned and everything was going to have to be done at the last minute. Both my wife and I had a lot to do before we were to be wed that day. In an effort to save money since we were on an extremely tight budget both my wife and I had decided to plan and set up everything for the wedding ourselves. I got up early that morning in order to start cooking some basic and simple food for our wedding reception. As the house filled with smells of a savory roast and mashed potatoes, smoked sausages, teriyaki chicken and scalloped potatoes, my wife and I were planning out the rest of our day. After all of the food was prepared we headed over to decorate the reception hall. We set out all the food and began setting up tables and decorating. My wife being the creative woman that she was, had gone to Wal-Mart and bought icicle lights to hang up for decoration and lighting of the dance floor. It was beautifully decorated; we had the tables set up in the shape of a U leaving room for a dance floor in the middle. It was one of the most beautiful things I had seen. The dining area and dance floor were lit up like a bright starry night with white and blue lights twinkling overhead. The tables had white table cloths with vases sitting on them with white and blue flowers and blue glass beads in the bottom. After we were finished at the reception hall my wife met up with her bride’s maids to get their hair done and go to the chapel to get ready for the wedding. While my wife was getting ready I met up with my groom’s men at the cabin that my parents were staying at to get changed and ready for the wedding. While everything else was going on that morning my mother was busy making one of the most amazing wedding cakes I had ever seen. It was a white 3 tier cake with blue ribbon around it and white and blue butterflies all over it like a swarm of butterflies all over a field of beautiful flowers. After getting dressed and ready I headed to the chapel where I would be standing and the alter waiting for the love of my life to walk down the aisle. As I was standing there watching my wife to be walk down the aisle I was as nervous as I had ever been. Everything that had happened so far that morning was leading up to this moment. We stood there staring into each other’s eyes while the chaplain proceeded with the ceremony; this was one the few moments in my life where I had ever started crying because of how happy I was. We exchanged rings and I was finally able to kiss the most beautiful woman in the world who was now Mrs. Spitzer. The ceremony concluded and my beautiful wife and I headed to the reception hall followed by our closest friends and family. Once arriving at the reception we all enjoyed the company of each other as 2 families became 1. There was a lot of fun and laughter as everyone gave their toasts and told everyone how they felt about each other and how they felt about my wife and I as a new couple and the addition of each of us to the others family.