Quote From: momsemiOur marriage started off with all the bad luck anyone could imagine.
We had purchased a trailer home and while the service man was installing and filling the fuel tank outside the house, it fell off the holder on his leg. Fortunately he wasn't badly injured.
We also had difficulty getting a final location for the electric pole to be set and still had no electricity when we returned from our honeymoon.
The Wednesday before our wedding, the Florist shop burned to the ground. The florist insisted on providing the flowers anyway, and I was losing petals from my bouquet all the way down the aisle.
The church had been in a remodeling mode for some months before the wedding, but the pastor assured us that everything would be in place so we could have a modest reception in the church basement. A couple days before the wedding when we went in to decorate, we found that we would have to move a couple of pianos up or down stairs, as well as many, many tables and chairs, etc.. We had to move the reception to the upstairs of the local fire hall.
The morning of the wedding, my future husband's gear shift broke off his car and he had to spend the whole morning trying to get it repaired.
The photographer's camera broke at some point and he told us a week later that none of our group pictures turned out.
When we returned from our two day honeymoon, we had to overnight at his parent's house due to there being no electricity yet at our home. His mother had put grocery bags between the open box springs and the mattress to protect the mattress. Needless to say, just rolling over in bed caused a great deal of crackling.
In spite of this bad start, we have a very wonderful and happy marriage and will be celebrating our 49th anniversary in November. The best thing you can do about adversity is laugh at it and hug your spouse.
