July 14. ( Just – just – shut up. I always confuse June and July. And when I looked up the date in Wikipedia, I thought, I swear to you I THOUGHT “Huh! I never knew that. I thought Bastille day WAS IN JULY. Guess I’m wrong!”)
At the time, I didn’t know I was scheduling my wedding for Flag Day, much less Bastille Day.
On this day in history:
1789 — French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille and free seven prisoners.
1939 – My favorite artist, Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860) died
1969 — The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
(TRUE) 1985 — TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed …
And I got married, blissfully unaware. My in-laws were unaware, too, and Gary and I got on a plane to Hawaii the next day.
We didn’t have a professional photographer, so Mom’s friends took the photos, and they really captured the moment.
Disco, disco wedding.We also did the Hokey Pokey.
Don’t kiss me. I must keep my eye on everything. Are your relatives drinking in church?
What the hell? Are you fucking kidding me? They brought in a keg? Of BEER?
You! Over there! What’s in that brown paper bag? I will KICK your ASS.
The final station of the cross: Jesus meets the three buxom bridesmaids and probably offers them sacremental wine.
Good Lord, I don’t even recognize that couple. The man looks happy anyway.
17 responses to “July 14, 1985 – Damn! JUNE 14, 1985”
You got married in a Chinese church?
Happy 25th Anniversary, Ellen and Gary! Here’s to 50 more. (Can’t wait to read the diamond anniversary’s og-blay entry.)
Should I say something about Flag day being June 14th and Bastille day being July 14th, and what’s the deal with you switching months on me?
Nah. You get a pass because it was your anniversary, and you were skinny when you were younger. I envy you that.
Those bridesmaid dresses look exactly like my 1985 prom dress! But I didn’t have fingerless lace gloves. They kinda make the dress. Shoot.
I seem to have had a visit from the confusion fairy. Or you have. Flag day and Bastille Day are not the same day. This is June, not July. *(Checks these facts again just to be sure.)
Anyway you look lovely but stressed in your wedding pics.
Hard to believe that portrait shot of you is not professional. It’s gorgeous!
Do you confuse up and down and left and right too?
Wow, you were so pretty and slim and it makes me wish that I had lost weight for my wedding instead of just buying a dress for the giant size I am. Geez…. On the upside; the pictures of your bridesmaids reminds me what I miss in modern weddings. No-one tries to torture their maids anymore by drowning them in pastel taffeta.
Oh my goodness you were baybeez!What great photos!
AW, HELL NO! That bridesmaid picture made me laugh at loud at work. (embarrass and slinking down in my chair) This is a super fun entry. Happy Anniversary! 🙂
Becs – Hah! The signs of the cross do look like chinese symbols.3 – I’ll probably look back at recent photos of me and think, “aww, I was pretty at 47.”Tami – To be fair, see that skinny waist? Each thigh was the same measurement. And I seem particularly skinny because I designed and made and sewed that wedding dress all by myself.Wendy – I didn’t measure the hands before I made the gloves for everyone, and my sister-in-laws barely fit. Zayrina – And I don’t remember being stressed at all. Gary says I was a wreck, though. ~~Silk – Someone with a steady hand took that one. Zayrina – I confuse May and March too.Amy_in_Stl – Okay, not only did I make my dress, the bridesmaids made theirs and the materials cost thirteen bucks. So, there you go.RockyCat – I know. I was … 22. That should not have been allowed. Erin G – Someone’s sister said they looked like great pumpkins coming down the aisle. Shrimp pink looks orange on a maroon rug. FYI.
…they’re silhouettes of Jesus walking with a cross on his back. I never would have figured that out if you hadn’t said that they were the signs of the cross. Just wasn’t seeing it.
In my head, I’m still the girl who took “Sociology of Religion” and said that the arrangement of dots
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looked like “a lower-case t”.
Darn it, the spacing didn’t work.
Wow, you made that dress! That’s pretty awesome.
Tami – the spacing didn’t work but I would have called it a sword.Amy in StL – never sewed another article of clothing for myself since then. It did me in.
I bet! Is that ruched elastic in the flutter-sleeves? !
Tami – I dont even know what that is. Just a piece of elastic sewn in with a home sewing machine. Also, no buttonholes.