Ronni
The motormouth ;)
- Location
- Nashville TN
Last weekend my firefighter son Corey, who lives in CA with his wife and 4 kids, FaceTimed me, and wanted to talk to Ron and me together. Hmmm...something was surely up.
Basically he was calling to say that there was just no way he could contemplate missing my wedding, and that even if they need to watch from their car from the other side of the road or whatever, he'll do whatever but he and the fam wants to be here!
Of course I immediately started crying I was so touched, and that phone call led to Ron and I re-evaluating our plan. We've never felt completely settled about marring without our kids and grands around, but with Covid and those concerns, and venues limiting guest counts, plus his daughter Krystal's baby due so close to our wedding date etc., we felt elopement with just the two of us was the most logical. Nonetheless we'd talked at some length about how we wish it could be different, because both of us were feeling a bit sad. Family is just as important to Ron as it is to me. And so Corey's call had us taking another look at our elopement plan, and realizing that we'd settled for something we didn't really want, and really acknowledging to ourselves that we wanted the family around.
We're still getting married 10/10 (just about a month away eeeeek!!!) but we're going to have it in our backyard if the weather is nice, or on our porch if the weather is bad, and inviting our kids and grandkids, and that's it. Casual and laid back, mid-morning, we'll probably serve food, and maybe have a wedding dance, and maybe a mother/daughter dance..…still working out the details! My granddaughter Katie will sing, and my son Grayson will play guitar, various of the grands will be used as ring bearers, flower people, to take photos and videos, my 9 year old grandson will play piano. Ron will get to have his two youngest daughters be his best men, (though Krystal will have just had her baby so she may well be carrying the infant down the aisle with her lol!) and I can have my only daughter be my maid of honor. We'll zoom the event so other of our friends and extended family can be a part of it if they want to be. It will be random, and likely a bit crazy, and entirely untraditional, and probably won't go at all according to plan, but everyone will be together somehow, in person or virtually, and that makes us completely happy!
Basically he was calling to say that there was just no way he could contemplate missing my wedding, and that even if they need to watch from their car from the other side of the road or whatever, he'll do whatever but he and the fam wants to be here!
Of course I immediately started crying I was so touched, and that phone call led to Ron and I re-evaluating our plan. We've never felt completely settled about marring without our kids and grands around, but with Covid and those concerns, and venues limiting guest counts, plus his daughter Krystal's baby due so close to our wedding date etc., we felt elopement with just the two of us was the most logical. Nonetheless we'd talked at some length about how we wish it could be different, because both of us were feeling a bit sad. Family is just as important to Ron as it is to me. And so Corey's call had us taking another look at our elopement plan, and realizing that we'd settled for something we didn't really want, and really acknowledging to ourselves that we wanted the family around.
We're still getting married 10/10 (just about a month away eeeeek!!!) but we're going to have it in our backyard if the weather is nice, or on our porch if the weather is bad, and inviting our kids and grandkids, and that's it. Casual and laid back, mid-morning, we'll probably serve food, and maybe have a wedding dance, and maybe a mother/daughter dance..…still working out the details! My granddaughter Katie will sing, and my son Grayson will play guitar, various of the grands will be used as ring bearers, flower people, to take photos and videos, my 9 year old grandson will play piano. Ron will get to have his two youngest daughters be his best men, (though Krystal will have just had her baby so she may well be carrying the infant down the aisle with her lol!) and I can have my only daughter be my maid of honor. We'll zoom the event so other of our friends and extended family can be a part of it if they want to be. It will be random, and likely a bit crazy, and entirely untraditional, and probably won't go at all according to plan, but everyone will be together somehow, in person or virtually, and that makes us completely happy!
The only outside person who will be at the wedding will be our professional photographer. Plus the various family will be taking countless cellphone pics and videoing everything! The entire event including all the bloopers will be fully documented! 
