We Eloped!

July 23, 2009

6:00 PM

Dallas LDS Temple

The ceremony was blissfully simple and short and got delayed a few hours so that our surprise witness, my son Dane, could make it. I was grateful that he was there and that it was over so quickly; my new husband was grateful that we were not asked to perform the "look into the mirrors and see yourselves going on into eternity" trick, which he labeled maudlin and unoriginal. I wouldn't have minded the mirror trick--probably wouldn't have even remembered it, since I remember little else. I can't believe how nervous I was! All I remember for sure is that it felt right. And how we both suppressed giggles when we were admonished, at ages 55 and 53, to go forth, multiply, and replenish the earth!

Choosing a Temple

Trying to choose the temple to get married in went kind of like this:

Which temple do you want to go to?

The Houston temple, it's my temple (this is EASY, I'm thinking).

But you won't be living in Houston when we get married.

Oh, yeah.

Nobody in your family will be living in Houston. You will be living closer to Dallas at that time.

But Dallas is the ugliest LDS temple in Christendom! And nobody in YOUR family lives there.

But you and I will live near it.

Well, what if we had a destination wedding and flew to the temple nearest the most members of the family?

OK, how about Orlando? You have a sister and a daughter there.

But then we'd have to fly everybody else in, including ourselves, and we would HAVE to take everybody to Disneyworld, which we can't swing right now. What about Salt Lake, you'll have two kids there and I have one there.

But we'd still have to fly all the other kids there and YOU AND I would have to fly up.

What's close to Iowa, there's one daughter and her whole family there. Nauvoo? But then again we fly everybody else including US up there?

Dang (this is NOT as easy as I thought). So we just stick with the Dallas temple and fly everybody here?

Dallas it is.

Wait a minute. What about the Anchorage temple???