these days of mine

Coco has graciously forfeited the blog writing to me today, because it’s a special day for Motor Man and me.

Twenty-four years ago today was our wedding day. Since I know we have new readers, I thought I’d share a few details about that day that some of you don’t know. (Sorry, lengthy post with lots of pics!)

1. We were married on February 2, 2002, at 2:02. That’s 02-02-02, and the numbers 02 seem to have shown up a lot in our lives since then.

2. Our ceremony took place in the oldest (1665) datable English built brick dwelling in the country, Bacon’s Castle, in Surry County, Va. My family has a long-time history there, and if you’d like to read more about it, click here.

3. On Christmas Day in 1935, my Aunt Martha was married in the same room where our wedding was held. It’s officially known as the “ladies chamber”. In bygone days, when the family had guests over for dinner, after the meal, the men would gather in the “Great Hall”, and the women would go across the hall to the ladies chamber to visit.

4. The very first thing I ever purchased on E-bay was my wedding dress. The bidding came right down to the wire, and I just happened to be the final bidder. The dress was new, and was overstock from a bridal shop. It fit like it was made for me and only needed hemming.

6. My son, Marshall, walked me ‘down the aisle’. We used pre-recorded music, and the song I chose was “My Valentine” by Martina McBride.

Most of our anniversary celebrations have been low-key, but we’ve had special celebrations for some of them. For our tenth, we were in California with friends, Bev and Bill, and went for a gondola ride on 02-02-12.

On our twentieth anniversary, our friends, Darcy and Ken, met us for lunch, then went with us ‘back to the scene of the crime’ for a fun photo session. Yay, my wedding dress still fit!

We’ve gone sleigh riding to celebrate several anniversaries, many of those at Snowshoe, West Virginia with our friend, Skip. He and his wife, Peggy, own Autumn Breeze Stables, located there at Snowshoe.

And for our 21st anniversary, we went to Vieques, Puerto Rico for a trail ride on the beach. That is operated by our friend, Elizabeth, whom we met during a trail ride on her farm on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.