Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Oh Happy Day...
Chris Montez - The More I See You
Blimey!!!
What a couple of weeks I've had.
If you've been following what's been going on in my life this year you'll know that my life has been completely turned around by the most wonderful person in the world...
Liz.
I had pretty much given up on being happy again, and almost certainly given up on being so happy with somebody that I'd want to spend the rest of my life with them, then Liz came into my life.
I've written about how we met before so wont go into it so much again, but if you missed it then you can read all about it here.
In a nutshell, I fell in love with her the moment I saw her, nothing could have prepared me for how much I felt for her, and the most amazing thing was that it became apparent very quickly that she felt the same as me. So naturally after only a few days I did what any old romantic did and proposed to her while doing a podcast...
And she said yes.
The worst time was when Liz went back to Tennessee after her far too short visit, the time was taken up with missing her incredibly and getting all my paperwork together for her Marriage Visa application, but it all got sorted out and we had a date for her to move here, along with an idea of when we could get married.
We thought it would be the best thing to get married after about a month of her being here, that would be enough time to get everything sorted out for the big and happy day. The 23rd of June fitted the bill perfectly and was the first free Saturday we could get.
Now a week before the Wedding something occurred to me, that the 23rd was awfully close to the anniversary of my Dad passing away, which was the 25th of June 3 years ago, then something else went pop inside my head, my Dad died two days after me starting Spoilt Victorian Child, which would make our Wedding day the third anniversary of when I started this thing you're reading now to the day!!!
I'm not a big believer in fate whatsoever, but this just seemed far too spooky, yet completely fitting as Spoilt Victorian Child was a major reason we met in the first place. And so the 23rd it was.
While planning the Wedding thoughts always turned to what music we'd like played, in fact I reckon more time was spent discussing that than pretty much anything else.
We weren't going to do a traditional first dance, basically the whole reception wasn't that traditional or conventional as there were no speeches or anything like that, and it was a Zombie and the Un-dead themed night, so lots of zombies staggering around... we wanted a fun, stress free day and night, and it turned out just that.
The morning of our Wedding was a really relaxed affair as everything had fallen perfectly into place with no worries. I went and put my suit on and was sat waiting in the living room for Liz to get changed into her dress....
She walked through the door and I swear I nearly burst into tears, she looked absolutely stunning, I mean, she always does, but this time even more so. I wont bore you all with all the details of the Wedding, but it was basically the happiest I'd ever ever been.
Anyway, so to the music. We weren't really too worried about what music would be played as two of my bestest friends were dj'ing so they had a pretty damn good idea of what we would love played... The Wedding Present, New Order, Talulah Gosh, The Mighty Fall, Electric Light Orchestra, Weather Prophets, We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Going To Use It, ABBA, Sexbeat, Amii Stewart, The Sisters of Mercy, Aphex Twin, Neil Diamond, Specimen, Magazine, Joy Division, The Bats, Harry Nillson, The Rentals, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, you know the sort of thing....
But we put a couple of CD's together anyway just in case they got a little stuck.
While thinking about what to have played Liz had remembered a post I did a couple of years back when I posted this Chris Montez track stating that I would love to have it played at my Wedding, I was single back then and had no idea that one day the girl who had written about a piece of music I'd recorded would be standing in front of me as my wife with the biggest smile....
And this was the perfect music.
Oh happy day...
Louis Armstrong - Basin Street Blues
The picture above is of my Dad with his first child...
A very young Spoilt Victorian Child... me.
It now sits on our mantelpiece with a Wedding present from my sister, a picture of my Dad with his first grandchild... my sisters daughter Toni.
As mentioned before, the Wedding was just two days before the third anniversary of my lovely Dad's death.
If I could have wished for just one thing it's that my Dad could have been there with us.
He would have adored Liz.
I still miss him so so much, and when I had a little cry when we'd got back from the Wedding before going to the reception, Liz was there, and turned my tears of regret into tears of happiness. That's something special right there.
He really really would have loved Liz. Truly.
This is a repost of a track that my Dad loved, and I do to.
Tell someone you love that you love them...
Now.
Buy - Chris Montez - Call Me
Buy - Louis Armstrong - The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings
Visit - Chris Montez
Visit - Louis Armstrong
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