Flashback Friday: honeymoon in Disneyland

I'm participating in Flashback Friday!

Flashback to 1994...

My dad's a little old fashioned, so even though Husband and I had lived together for over 7 years, my dad still wished we would get married. To coax us toward matrimony, Dad even offered to give us a trip to Disneyland if we would wed!

Oddly enough (or should I say suspiciously?), not too long after that, Husband proposed to me.

It was the morning of my 26th birthday, a Saturday. Husband was acting very mysterious and asked me to go for a ride in the car with him. When I inquired about our destination, all he would say was that it was a surprise.

Husband drove to a registry office and parked in the parking lot. Then he turned to me with a serious look on his face and blurted, "Let's get married."

"Sure," I laughed. "When?"

Quite honestly, I thought he was joking. We had been together for a total of 9 years and for 7 of those we were living in sin. So this seemed a little ... unreal.

"How about Wednesday?" he answered.

I, of course, burst into tears and accepted.

Things moved very quickly. We got the marriage license that day at the registry. On Monday we contacted a marriage commissioner. On Tuesday we bought wedding bands. On Wednesday afternoon we asked a couple of friends to be our witnesses (we were newbies at the wedding thing and didn't even realize we needed witnesses until that day).

On Wednesday evening we were married in the commissioner's office. Husband wore jeans and I wore a chambray dress. It was casual and it was beautiful and we both cried like babies through the whole ceremony.

Afterward, we took our witnesses out to dinner at McDonald's (which is where we first met).

Dad kept his word and gave us the trip as a wedding present. And Husband and I honeymooned in Disneyland four months later. Like two giddy children, we rode every ride (at least twice), we saw every site, and we experienced every experience we could possibly cram into our visit to the happiest place on Earth. We were the happiest couple on Earth!



Many months later, Husband confessed to me that his original plan was to present me with a surprise marriage license to go along with his suprise marriage proposal. When he went to the registry to apply for one, however, the somewhat puzzled clerk explained to him that in order to apply for a marriage license you kind of need to have a bride with you! :o)