From The Happy Happy Couple

I haven't witten a blog for a long long time. I received quite the shit kicking phone call from Ron Saubak, so gave me hell for publicly airing all the dirty laundry about their family on a public world blog that anyone could read. I didn't realize that the whole wide world could read our blogs. Thankfully Dawn made it so you need to be invited to the blog site with a password before you can enter the family business. So I will have to watch what I say from now on.

Anyway onto a better note. Ardell and I had a lovely wedding. He loves me dearly and I love him. We tell each other at least ten times a day we love each other. I have felt his love for a long time and just had to get the ties broken from Gordon before I could marry Ardell.

Ardell proposed to me in the hospital when I had my knee operation. He just sat at my bed side and said, "when we get married, we will ........... " and I said and when will we get married you haven't proposed to me yet, so he asked me to marry him. He said he was thinking about around the time we first met. As you probably all know we both had a profile on a internet site. I emailed to him, but he didn't have a picture on his profile. We talked and talked on the phone, and I detected an accent in his voice. I ask him where he was from, not wanting to ask him what his nationality was. He said he was from Canada, born in Belleville, Ontario. He finally told me he was Jamacian decent. He asked me out for a coffee one evening. He doesn't drive so I picked him up at his apartment and we went to Gerry's Restaurant on 12th Avenue and 5th Street, which used to be an old Husky House Restaurant. He ate supper and I had a coffee and we talked and talked and laughed and laughed and had a good time. That night when I dropped him off he asked me to go to a movie with him on Saturday night. Saturday night could not come soon enough as I really enjoyed our first evening. In the movie he held my hand through the whole show. He asked if he could see me again and again. That was the beginning of our life together. There were a lot of nights that I cried on his shoulder with my troubles of my divorce and he comforted me and told me not to worry it would all work out and just be patient. Well the divorce did drag and drag. I think Gordon knew I was happy and he was just being obstinate. Ardell and I wanted Ardell to move into my house in July last year when his lease came due, but he decided he didn't want to until the divorce was final, so we waited till Christmas time for him to move in. Now we have three of everything including 6 jars of each spice. Ardell does love to cook and he is a very good cook. So we did date for 2 years and my patience did win out. So now we were planning to be married. As our first date was March 18th, 2005 we wanted to be married on that date, but in 2008 it was on a Tuesday. So we chose March 15th, the closest Saturday to the date of our first date. I decided I wanted to have a Cinderella Wedding theme. I searched the net and found Cinderella wire carriages for center pieces. I had a big piece of glass that someone left in my garage, one of my roomers, and I took it and had 10 plate glass round center pieces cut to set the carriages on. Paula helped me decorate them with roses and pom poms. I bought fuschia pink votive candles to put in the center of the coaches. I found Cinderella coach picture frames for the place cards and then every guest took their frame home to put a wedding picture of us in it. I have lots of left overs for those of you who didn't get one. Just let me know. I bought Cinderella glass slippers to decorate on the tables at the luncheon. L.A. helped me sew table runners in fuschia pink. I had a bakery make the cake pink and white. I found a red headed bride and an afro-american groom that go together like they are dancing to put on the 12 inch round cake. Paula found me a Cinderella pinck coach and horse in blown glass for my Christmas present so I put that on a mirror on the 8 inch round cake that was placed on three wine globlets that were Paula's. I borrowed my veil from Paula, the one she wore at her wedding. I really liked it then. L.A. modified it to fit my head. I had a rhinestone tierra in my hair. I found a rhinestone big necklace that I bought on the net, then lost it for the longest time, but found it the week before the wedding. My flowers were gorgeous. The local floral shop made them for me and was very cheap. I was worried about them being so cheap, but they were lovely. The week before the wedding she phoned me and said she didn't get the right color of pink for me, but in two days she located the right color. Then I had white callilillies in the bouquet. She mde a small throw away bouquet, so Ashley carried it. Ashley was quite concerned about being the flower girl. She told me she needed to practice, so I told her to go to the bedroom and come out carrying her little basket that we had bought her. So the frst time she did it, she looked like a bunny hopping out of the bedroom.

We had lots of other hick-ups, but the day was a very happy happy day when it did arrive. I was well prepared and everything went smooth, once it started to roll. We have been married for two weeks yesterday and we are still on our honey moon. It is soooooooo good to be loved by a man who shows affection to me in such a lovely way, and he is a goooooood cook also. Tonight he made me a big pot of split pea soup with a pork hock. It was very delicious. He is ready for bed now so I better scoot. He gets up at 3:30 am so morning does come early. I take him down town to work at 5:30 am and then I go to work for 7 am. So it does make for an early morning.

Good night and I love you all for all your support and thanks to Gayle for those lovely words in his Toast to the Bride at the wedding. See you all soon.

MRS. SHIRLEY WILSON