I Was An MSN Bride: July 2005 Archives

We had a very simple wedding. I found the girls dresses with two hours in one day. I put their little bouquets together myself. The flowers in the foreground came out of our front yard. We got married by the clerk of courts with my mother, his parents, his brother and sister-in-law and their children looking on. Our children stood with us, two beaming, one crying and trying not too (I have to find that photo, it is a beautiful portrait of complete happiness). My wedding band is plain and simple and plantinum. My engagement ring is a 5.63ct pink star sapphire that came from Burma and white sapphires from Sri Lanka, not a jewelry store and because I do not care for diamonds. Steven's wedding band is titanium, inlaid with silver. It is scratchless and has developed a beautiful rich luster over the year. It is hard to tell it from platinum. We chose the titanium because I am allergic to gold and some other metals. Sometimes just touching my skin the metal will leave a blister, like a burn. The titanium is what is used in the body to piece bones back together and is non-reactive. We can hold hands without my skin reacting. We picked up our marriage license, walked to the courthouse and got married. After our nuptuals, we went home, had cake and champange then went out for Peking duck and Jeo-Yan Shrimp. This year has been one filled with changes and surprises. Steven never planned to marry or have more children. He has done both. I never planned to leave the state of Georgia or to marry someone who had been married before. I have done both. We both have learned to consider the needs of five people not just the 3 or the 2. We both have learned that just because you screwed up the first time and married the wrong person it doesn't mean you won't get a chance to have a life with the right person. Do not marry the person you can live with: Marry the one whom you can not live without. Yes, I really did meet him on the internet. We married 11 months after we met online. It is the best thing I have ever done in my entire life. Happy Anniversary, Steven. I love you.

One year ago today I baked a cake. This batter is french vanilla. I was too cheap to buy 2 pans of each size so it took a little longer to bake the cake one layer at a time. That's ok. I was in no hurry. I had all night to bake. This is a 12 inch pan and a 6 inch pan. French vanilla buttercream icing in the old kitchaide stand mixer. Nothing makes buttercream icing better than a heavy duty stand mixer. The crumb coat. Between each layer of cake is a layer of raspberry filling. Look how perfectly level that cake is. Piping the icing. This is the part the took the longest time and the most patience. It took about 6 hours to do the decorating. And more piping of the icing. BTW, the cake is not lopsided. Steven took a crooked picture. The cake topper is ceramic. (Missing photos are due to having move and take down photos because some asain chic keeps linking to them and eating my bandwidth. I have had to make place holders so she iknows I am on to her. Maybe she will stop soon and I will put the finished photo back up here.) Our wedding cake. I made it myself. Total cost with pans and plates about $75 and 8 hours of my time. The top layer is in my freezer. Tuesday we will have it for dessert along with a bottle of champagne we saved from our wedding day. I haven't got Steven an anniversary gift yet. I have no idea what to give. Any suggestions?