OUR LIFELONG CONVERSATION (PART 14)...

PART 14: GROW OLD WITH ME, CONTINUED

at first when the speakers fell silent and the lights went out no one knew what to do. so evan and his mom just kept dancing without the music. but soon it became clear that this wasn't a temporary situation and we were going to have to figure out an alternative plan.





as it began to sink in what was happening around me i didn't freak out or panic. i didn't do anything at all. i just went into a daze. i remember watching everyone around me working to find solutions. i on the other hand just plopped down on ballroom floor. i guess that was my survival mode.










it turned out we weren't in the only downtown building without electricity. a transformer blew and the whole block was without. the first area of concern was the guests stuck in the elevator. not every wedding album includes pictures of firefighters at work, but ours does. thankfully they freed the 5 guests who were traveling upstairs at just the wrong moment.






the next priority was figuring out what to do about the heat. without the air conditioning our reception was beginning to get hot. it was the middle of summer and there were entire walls of windows. it was hot, but it also could have been worse. all of this was happening in the late afternoon so we knew eventually the sun had to go down. at the same time we knew until it did go down at least we had natural lighting to light up the event!


as guests tried to decide whether they should stay or leave a spontaneous plan came to be. i didn't find out until much later that while i was sitting on the floor in shock my aunts and uncles were spreading the word that i had wanted dancing so we should find a way to have it even if the band could no longer play.




so that's just what they did. they started singing acapella versions of songs by the gatlin brothers, oak ridge boys, alabama, and even a version of the chicken dance complete with harmony. it was just awesome. it was also just what we needed to get the party and the laughter started!








although there were some surprises along the way we have wonderful memories from our wedding day. the end seemed to come so soon. but yet we knew it was also just the beginning. we tossed the bouquet and garter, changed into our leaving outfits, and were running off through fistfuls of birdseed before i knew it.

i can't make a decision to save my life. i have spent hours debating which socks to wear or what to order for lunch. but when it came time to make the decision to marry evan i was unwaveringly sure. and it is one of the only decisions i made without so much as a second guess. i am thankful everyday that evan chose to grow old with me.

next thursday, the final installment of "our lifelong conversation"
PART 15: AFTERWORD