Goin' to the Chapel

Ok, don't be mad if we didn't tell you, but we got married on Friday! Yep, I'm officially a Chaplin, and when little butternut pineapple cantaloupe is born he won't confuse the bureaucracy by having a mom with a different last name (and isn't not confusing bureaucracies what life is all about?) To be honest, initially part of me was a little... unsettled at the fact that I was going to be getting married while so obviously pregnant, but I realize now that this was exactly the way it was supposed to turn out. Josh and I aren't 'wedding' people and we never would have done the conventional church and reception thing anyway. All the important elements were there: family and close friends, beautiful weather, and good food too. (Ok, I definitely got some snide looks from some of the other brides walking around as they looked me up and down with that got-him-just-in-time-eh? sort of look, but really who cares? Them bitches be jealous!)

I really had a fantastic day, and the city hall process was pretty painless. It was kind of fun actually because the city clerk's office sort of feels like a european train station, plus there's brides and grooms everywhere, and it was a bit of an adventure because we had to pass through several stages of the process including running across the street to get a special waiver from an invisible judge so that we could avoid the 24 hour waiting period between getting a marriage license and having the actual ceremony. It really didn't take much time and wasn't boring for a second - like regular weddings sometimes are (if I've been to yours, I didn't mean that one of course). We got some great photos and then had an amazing delicious lunch afterwards and aside from my family who were there in spirit with their blessings, we had the perfect intimate celebration with the special people in our lives and that's what made it just right for us and I wouldn't change a thing.

Next summer we'll have a bigger party to celebrate with everyone else we missed out on sharing this event with, but in the meantime we've got a baby on the way!