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Debra, 43


My favorite part of my wedding day was the way Mark looked at me during our ceremony when I figured out that my maid of honor had left his ring at the other end of the building. Normally, I would have been really pissed, but I just laughed and went on with the ceremony. Most people didn’t even realize that we didn’t have his ring because I took my ring off of my right finger and put it on his. We fixed it right after the ceremony, but if you pay attention in the photos of our kiss you will notice that he has a little ring half way on his finger. I started planning in late August of 2008, so it took about six and a half months to plan our wedding and four months to pick out the bridesmaids dresses. We called them the bridesmaid’s dresses from hell, my girls were spread all over the country. It took me one day alone to pick out my dress, and two months to pick out the tux but another two months to figure out the colors and vest/tie styles for our groomsmen. There are many things I would change about our wedding but the one thing would probably be the rain. It poured all day and most of the week before the wedding. A lot of people didn’t attend because of the weather. I wore plastic bags on my feet so my shoes wouldn’t get wet leaving the house and going to the ceremony. Of course, they couldn’t do the fun stuff like decorating the car and following us around town blowing the horn because it was really pouring when we left the reception. My dress was extremely muddy. Mark would have liked to have a larger reception hall. We haven’t been our honeymoon yet. We are planning to go to West Virginia to the Cass Scenic Rail Road just outside of Cannan Valley in June for a couple of weeks and while there attend Mark’s family reunion for a couple of days. We needed time to save some money for the trip and wanted to have much better weather, hopefully. Can’t say I am happy about all of the hills and mountains since I prefer the ocean, but I do love being with him and his family. Next year the Ocean! We have been married for 2 ½ months and it has been great! I am happier than I have been in a very long time. I was worried that our relationship would change in all the wrong ways, but it has just gotten stronger. Mark waited patiently for four years (and 40 minutes) to marry me, after I said yes. He says that it was worth the wait. I certainly am glad he decided to wait for me. I think we pretty much covered just about everything in the years before our marriage. Between our children going on deployments, getting married at a moment’s notice, living with us and dealing with our ex’s and in laws, it’s pretty quiet now! Until another deployment! Which is June 9th for my step daughter in the Army. Oh no, we won’t be having any more children. Together we have five grown children and four grandkids. I would just die if someone told me I had to raise another child! Mark is one of the calmest, most considerate people I know. He gets along with pretty much everyone. He is the quiet one and I am the loud bitchy one. We keep each other in line, although I can get him wound up on occasion. Most of the time it’s him calming me down. He thought the Bridezilla experience was wonderful. Of course he wasn’t the one they followed around!! One of the hardest parts of the Bridezilla experience was doing all of the tons of paperwork. The last time I signed that many papers I was buying a house! Of course, there were a few people including one of my bridesmaids who refused to be on TV; so that made things a lot more complicated. And after all of that, she really helped me a lot on the wedding day and was really sweet to me. And what a surprise that was, since the two of us are just as different as night and day. I didn’t have a lot of time to worry about her since the pastor decided three days before the wedding that he couldn’t do the ceremony. Having the crew there was a lot more work than I thought it would be. I didn’t realize that they were there every minute of every day until the wedding. It gives you a new found respect for the TV crews and people behind the scenes.