leaving town…

Julie is leaving town at 4:30 AM for a flight to the Bahamas to get married. It’s marriage number 2 for her, and I know that she has to be terrified. It’s terrifying enough when it is your first marriage, but to walk down the aisle a second time and ‘know for sure-er more than the last time’ has got to have its downsides. For one thing there is the ‘what do I wear?’ thing… white or not? Not that most today walking down the aisle the first time are virgins, it’s just the tradition of it. Then it’s the question of wedding or just go to the courthouse? It seems to be more trendy today to head off to a beach somewhere to say I do the second time. It’s a thought that crosses my mind. I don’t want my second wedding to stand in the shadow of my first, but that’s where the whole thing comes back around again… it’s not the wedding… it’s the two people and the commitment that they are making to one another.

I hope I have that again.