Delano Herald Journal

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Opal “Grandma” Habisch Column 6/5/2000



June is the month for weddings. A few years ago, I went
to a rather unusual wedding that I would like to tell you about.

The young couple that were getting married were full of
fun and always playing jokes on each other or on other people. So, when
they decided to get married, we were all wondering what kind of wedding
they would plan.

At first, they talked about jumping out of an airplane
as they said their vows. But they couldn’t find a minister that would marry
them that way so they had to think of another idea.

Then, they decided to learn how to ride horses and thought
it would be fun to get married on a horse. But the man who owned the horses
said, “Not with my horses.” So that put an end to that idea.

We didn’t hear much more about it until six months later,
when we received the actual wedding invitation.

The invitation said that the wedding would take place in
a church. We could not believe it.

But, sure enough, the bride wore a beautiful traditional
wedding dress, and the groom wore a white tux. There were six bridesmaids
in the wedding and it was all very beautiful, and very normal.

Until the music started. As the bride came down the aisle,
the music began, but it was not the traditional wedding march.

Instead, the groom had composed their wedding music and
they had a singer and a three-piece band to perform it. All of the guests
were having a hard time trying not to tap their feet.

When the bride and groom knelt down for the blessing, there
was another surprise. As the bride’s feet became visible at the bottom of
her beautiful white dress, we saw that she was wearing white jeans under
her dress, and white cowboy boots. For that matter, all of the bridesmaids
had white jeans and boots on, too.

And the groom and his groomsmen were all wearing white
tennis shoes, instead of fancy dress shoes.

The bride’s mother just about fainted when she saw this,
as she had no idea that they would be doing these things. But everyone laughed
about it, and thought that, if nothing else, it was a very different wedding.

Now, this couple has three little boys, age 5 to 8, who
are all like their parents, full of fun. I can’t wait until their weddings.
I want to be there, as I know it will be another fun time.

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