Anniversary
Oct. 26th, 2009 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerToday is the 13th Anniversary of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deliasherman'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.
deliasherman'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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Date: 2009-10-26 08:38 pm (UTC)Your descriptions make me smile, too.
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Date: 2009-10-26 08:56 pm (UTC)And there's a folk festival in Lowell? Sheesh.
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Date: 2009-10-26 09:32 pm (UTC)So happy you got your Legal Event as well. The illegal one sounds like a wonderful party. I'm smiling just reading about it.
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Date: 2009-10-26 10:15 pm (UTC)May you have many more of the happy events!
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Date: 2009-10-26 10:55 pm (UTC)I still have the tattoos that you kindly sent to those of us who couldn't come to the wedding. I was trying to finish a book. I still look at it sometimes and think, "I missed Delia and Ellen's wedding for you."
Happy anniversary.
P.
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Date: 2009-10-26 10:59 pm (UTC)I hardly dare admit this, but the two of you have given me wild hopes that maybe someday I will meet my own lesbian fantasy writer soulmate.
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Date: 2009-10-27 12:01 am (UTC)(yours is three days before ours, though we are only at 5 years)
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Date: 2009-10-27 12:46 am (UTC)That is so sweet. (And I always did wonder when and how you guys figured it out.)