Question: If two people who adore each
other marry but neither write about it that day, does it still count?
Answer: Oh yeah!
Katie and I were married in the rotunda of San Francisco's City Hall last
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 1:11pm. Our witnesses were Katie's Mom and Dad, Cher
and her daughter Skye and my friends Scotty and Jill up from LA. Our flower girl
was Anya, a part she was born to play! The ceremony was brief but not rushed (my
goal, nearly met, was to not blubber like a baby throughout) and a good time was
had by all. It was intentionally a quiet, low key event but we promise you (and
you know who "you" are) an upcoming night of drinking and dancing at the
Fairmont Hotel's Tonga Room, date TBA.
Tuesday was three years (and four centuries) to the day since we first met and,
albeit very romantic, it wasn't the first date we chose. I moved north from Los
Angeles with the intention of marrying my beloved on Valentine's Day but do to
some "unintentional" and continuing mix-up with her divorce papers, we had to
reschedule the date. Three times. I put the word in quotes because I really want
to believe that no one could be so petty, so vindictive, so infantile as to try
and screw up our wedding plans on purpose. But regardless or whether it was
intentional or not, the importance of keeping our plans to ourselves seemed to
increase with each added delay. In fact, over the last couple of months I have
become so accustomed to keeping our marriage and wedding date a secret that,
even though it's five days after the fact, I'm still waiting for the other shoe
to drop, the latest legal email to appear, the next in a long series of
miserable surprises the dark forces have planned in order to forever keep us
apart.
I look down at my ring, the one Katie slipped on my finger five days ago. It's
platinum, beautiful, with the inscription "I love you best" inside (she really
does) and I smile. For as each minute passes it becomes more and more clear to
me, to Us, that no shoe, no email and no dark surprise can change the fact that
we are today and forever more
Katie and Sandey Grinn.
Thank the heavens!!!!!!!!!