12th Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to us!

Twelve years ago today:

August 22, 1992 the couple was married in the afternoon at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in South Florida, as Hurricane Andrew was bearing down on the coast … no one knew where it’d hit, and the bride and groom didn’t even know it existed. It ended up messing with their honeymoon plans, the Keys were not the place to be, afterall.

In the end, The Keys were alright, but it’d have been a trying time to get OUT of The Keys.

The new couple went to Orlando for a gloomy, gray honeymoon. Stormy skies, not so fun, but the wedding was a blue skied sunny day! 😉

Photos from within the car:

Northward We Go! On the road, Sunday afternoon, August 23, 1992, S. Florida

I-95 to the east. We were on the Fl. Turnpike, so this is that stretch near Ft. Pierce when the two roads are near each other. Notice the boats in the water, getting ready for the storm. Notice the tops of the cars on I-95, going North. Traffic was thick on both roads, going North. Southbound was practically empty, and we so wished we could go North on that. The going was very slow.

Wedding Saturday afternoon; Get together at A & U’s later; that night home in apartment; Sunday planned on leaving for The Keys, but reconsidered and checked on others in the area before we left for Orlando; Finally got there, long slow trip evacuating — hotels booked, got a room, didn’t work out so well for Honeymooners 🙁 ; Sunday night to Monday morning Andrew hit Homestead, the weather covered many miles, gray skies forever it seemed.; Back home a couple of days later and back to work 🙁 ; but being married was good.

Two years later the couple went to the Smoky Mtns for a week, during Anniversary time, and they focus on THAT as their “real honeymoon”. It was a fine time. 🙂

Twelve years of official marriage, known each other for less than thirteen. Best friends, and hoping for many more years together.