Richard and I have been trying to finish our Wedding Album for a little while now. We are using a site called Blurb, where you can make your own book. You can design the layout and borders and background, its actually kinda cool. I had done one a while ago and when I finished I hated how everything looked. So I started it again and now it looks fantastic!!! I wanted there to be a little story at the beginning of the book about Richard and I, and when I wrote it, it came out more like a diary entry then a story. So Richard and his very talented writing skills came up with a very cute story about the two of us and I wanted to share it with whoever would enjoy it. He said when he was writing it he had the opening of Stardust going through his head. So here it is...
Halloween Wedding is a fairy tale story of love at first sight, and happily ever afters. The voice you are now hearing in your head is that of Sir Ian McKellen. If you do not like my voice, or don't know what it sounds like, you may substitute it with the voices of Sir Patrick Stewart, Sir Christopher Lee, Leonard Nimoy, or Morgan Freeman.
This story began, as many modern love stories do, with a young man stalking a young lady through the magic of internet media. The young man, named Richard, had been drifting endlessly through vast sea of Facebook profiles of local singles when at last he stumbled across the enchanting photo of a sweet young red head (well, she wasn't naturally a red head, but her hair had been red when the photograph was taken). Richard quickly discovered that she had a open profile and began glossing over her hobbies and interests. He liked what he saw. They shared some common ground in interests and she seemed nice enough.
Richard decided he wanted to get to know this young lady better and was about to send her a message and a friend invite when he suddenly realized he lacked one very important thing: courage. He closed the window and immediately sent a volley of messages to friends, asking them: is this a good idea? what should I say? if you were to receive a similar message from someone would you think it was weird? and so on. A few days later, sufficiently emboldened by his friends encouragement and advice, Richard set out with determination to introduce himself to his fair maiden. However this would prove no simple task as Richard soon realized, to his dismay, that he lacked another very important thing: her name.
Starting from scratch Richard sifted through page after page of endless names and faces until he once again came across her captivating profile picture. He discovered the name of the girl in the picture was Paula. He sent Paula a message. He waited for a reply. There was none. Seconds became minutes, minutes became hours and hours became days. No reply. He was about to give up hope when one day he noticed that his friend invite had been accepted. Furthermore he discovered that the acceptance of his invitation had opened certain privileges that allowed him to chat with her when she was online. As luck would have it, she happened to be online at that very moment! He said hello, asked how she was and waited for a response. The response came.
“ Who the hell are you?” she asked. “ This chat window thing doesn't show me your name.”
Richard apologized and introduced himself, and what followed was several months of awkward messaging and online chatting. Finally he managed to talk her into meeting him in person. They had their first date at T.J. Chigaco's (now Tee Jay's Sports Kitchen). Paula, initially wary of this strange young man who had spent the last few months stalking her on the internet, fell quite quickly for him after this. By their third date they had shared their first kiss and officially became boyfriend and girlfriend, even going so far as to update their relationship status on Facebook.
From this point on the two were inseparable, renting their first home after only a year of being with one another, and there they retreated into their own little world together. The following years flowed like a dream as the two of them built their timeless life of amusement parks, haunted houses, wax museums, sci-fi conventions and B-horror films at drive in theatres.
Originally they scoffed at the idea of marriage, believing that those who went through the hustle and bustle to make loud and showy declarations of love typically did so to compensate for how weak the bond between them actually was. Yet over time they found themselves warming to the idea in spite of themselves. They loved each other and they loved the life they shared together, so why not celebrate it?
Having made the decision, they thought it best to keep it to themselves for the time being. They needed time to decide exactly what kind of wedding they wanted. Paula said she wanted to elope, inviting no more than six people. Richard, already displeased with how dry and diplomatic their engagement had been argued against this. He told her he wanted her to have a day she would remember forever, and, for that matter, he wanted to give her a proper engagement for the same reason. He asked her for time to plan something special for their formal engagement. He told her to use that time to plan out a wedding suited to their tastes, so that when the time came to announce their decision to the world everything would already be arranged and people wouldn't be able to coerce them into more traditional arrangements.
Over the following months Paula busied herself with the details of their special day. She was referred by some close friends to an officiant named Suzanne Peters, and found a small yet inviting venue called The Caledon Inn. She picked out the decorations, the flowers, the cake, her dress, the party favors and so on and so forth. All the while Richard made plans for the engagement. He sought out the help of a young musician named Alex James, asking him if he would record an acoustic version of an old love song named Golden Earrings and for the price of a beer Alex agreed. With that done Richard enlisted the help of two friends, Hillary and Janine, to help insure his proposal went off without a hitch.
It was the evening of October 30th, Devil's Night. Richard, Paula and their friends Janine and Hillary set out for a haunted night on the town at Screamfest in Toronto. They wined and dined and at the stroke of midnight, (well, not really, but that would have been good) Richard serenaded Paula with his gypsy love song, took a knee, placed the ring in her hand and they were engaged.
On October 29th the following year they were wed, and it was probably one of the most unique weddings anyone assembled had been to, but I won't tell you about that. A pictures worth a thousand words after all, and there are plenty of those ahead...
And then obviously you start with the pictures. I laughed so hard at the beginning of this story with all the different actors names, and then since I'm such a pansy I cried a little near the end. Now that this is complete I'm going to put it in the book tonight, review it and put the order in. Blurb is actually having a 25% off sale so that should be helpful. Let me know what you think about the story in comments.Richard really likes to get peoples opinions on his writing. If you want to keep updated on my posts just become a follower or you can subscribe through email :) Happy Thursday Everyone.
