Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Our Wedding ~ Part Six

After everyone was seated someone announced the first song and everyone joined in singing except for the bridal party. We sat and listened and visited with each other and kept an eye on the clock. A few minutes before the required two hours of singing were over LV asked one of the hostlers to announce and lead the hymn that would serve as a prayer before we started to eat.

As soon as it was sung LV's married siblings started serving everyone with a meal equally as big as the previous one had been. We had special food served to us again as well. Half way through our meal one of LV's brothers came with two cups filled with tomato juice and set them next to our plates and told us we would not be allowed to leave the table until the cups were empty. He knew LV despised all things tomato. When he wasn't looking LV opened the window behind us and dumped both of them out.

A little before we were done Uncle Eli Petersheim came to get the wedding cake. He and aunt Mattie would cut it and wrap pieces to give to all the cooks and table waiters. Eli and Mattie had always been very special to me, being some of the happiest people I knew of, and I had wanted then to have the honor of taking care of the cake.

Once everyone was done eating the young folks waited expectantly for LV to bow his head for silent prayer. It would be the first time he would be the one to signal the beginning and end of the prayer.

As everyone rose from the table to get ready to go home. LV and I went to get the gifts that we had purchased to give to everyone that had helped with the work on our special day.

As people drove away we surveyed all the dirty dishes. They could wait to be taken care of until the next day. All the cousins planned to spend all night visiting and playing games in the showroom. I knew from past experiences what great fun that would be, but we weren't single any longer and would not be joining in.

Our wedding day was over but we had the rest of our life to look forward to. Together.

18 comments:

  1. And you probably ate lightly for the next two days! The nerve of that tomato juice. All in good fun, of course.

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  2. Lovely! Thank you for sharing!

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  3. So they do everything but wash the dishes?? Are they related to my kids perhaps? HA HA What a cute story ~ ♥

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  4. What fun! But it looks like they could of helped with the dishes. lol.
    until next time... nel

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  5. Whoa, that's a lot of dishes to look forward to the next day. I do hope you had lots of help with them. Btw, I'd have gladly imbibed the tomato juice for you, lol.

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  6. I hope someone was extra nice, decided to surprise you and LV and washed all the dirty dishes so you and LV didn't have to face them in the morning.

    Thank you so very much for sharing your wedding with us!

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  7. So funny how he threw the tomato Juice out the window! Great post. Blessings, Joanne

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  8. I LOVE the ending of this post... so true.

    Your whole wedding seems like it was such a joyous occasion... except for the grueling questions from the elders. How mortifying that must have been! For that reason alone I'm glad I was not married Amish.

    Everyone loves a good love story... and this is one... thanks!

    Saloma

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  9. It was quite some day wasn't it?Weren't you tired by the evening though?

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  10. What a long day! I'll bet you two were ready to have some alone time! Thanks for sharing your day!

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  11. This has been a fascinating journey.

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  12. I love the sly tomato juice solution; is this the first time you have revealed LV's action? If so, I wonder what his brother might think...

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  13. Thanks again and again for sharing this with all of us. I love settling down at night to read your blog (and a few others.) What a lovely ending to a lovely love story...

    Oh, wait...it's not over!!! This is just the begining :-)

    Curious if LV ever revealed to you what his first end of meal prayer was? I'm looking forward to some more "happily ever after" chapters!

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  14. Please tell me you didn't have to wash all those dishes the next day.

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  15. I would very much like to know what food was served and what presents you got.

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  16. What an interesting read, just stumbled by here by accident and had to read on lol.
    Thanks for sharing.

    Pandora

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  17. I was so anticipating this day for you...and was not disappointed that your joyful day came with so many relatives and friends to join in the event.
    I have subscribed to your blog, after many,many days of reading it, and this morning I suggested to a number of friends that they might enjoy it too. A few already have asked me for the link, and I shared it with them.
    By the way, my husband is looking forward to making the crescent roll crust with the cream cheese and cherry filling!

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