Anniversary

[ellenkushner]

Today is the 13th Anniversary ofdeliasherman's & my first ("illegal") wedding in Cambridge, MA. "Lace Anniversary." She's in a big house in a small town in Mexico on writer's retreat. I hope they have lace there. I'm going to dinner with a friend at our fave Chinatown noodle dive. Bliss.

Also bliss that this is the first night I am coming home without a serious deadline hanging over my head (except packing for WFC, I guess. But that doesn't involve getting words to line up and do tricks). I will Skype Delia, and maybe watch something stupid on TV.

It's hilarious that we seldom observe our anniversary anymore - after all, we have so many: the Legal Event (August 24, 2004, officiated by Rabbi Cherie Koller-Fox in our backyard after our annual clothing swap/barbecue); the First Kiss (after years of circling each other, being friends . . . this is a Moveable Feast, as it occurred on the first night of the Lowell Folk Festival. Yes, Cambodian street food, a Zydeco Marching Band and roots music under the stars can drive you to undreamed of feats of romantic daring as you sit in the driveway preparing to say good-night) . . . . The original wedding was a huge do, at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, a former records room with a marble floor & carved archways & a balcony. We had nearly 300 guests from all corners of both our lives. It was a perfect blue clear New England autumn day - very much like today in NYC, actually! We handed out press-on tattoos with our wedding sigil (oak & ivy intertwined, like the ring in this UserPic, my wedding ring). There was a great deal of food and music and dancing - we called it a "Party with a Ceremonial Interruption" on the invitation. And so it was. I remember smiling so much and for long that my face actually hurt at the end of the day. I'm smiling now.

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[17catherines.livejournal.com]

Thank you!