Two of my daughters celebrated wedding anniversaries this month.  My third daughter and her husband celebrated their 10th on August 9 and my fourth daughter and her husband celebrated their 9th on August 1.  Our daughters were married in their birth order and the four weddings were all within five years from 1st to last. 

Each wedding was as unique as each girl and each had specific things about them that I will never forget. M's wedding was clear across the country from where we lived so I went out for two weeks at the time of the wedding.  I completely lost my voice just before the wedding and had to converse in a whisper with all of the guests.  I was so tired from the voice strain that I wanted to hide in a closet and not talk to anyone for a week afterward.  L's wedding was on a Saturday, two days before we moved from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.  All our belongings were in boxes and our guests had to sit on boxes in our condeminium after the reception.  J's wedding was in her in-laws wildflower garden.  Her mother-in-law ordered live butterflys for release after the wedding vows.  The sad thing was that the wedding occurred at the same time as a UPS strike and the butterflys sat in a hot wearhouse for too long and when we opened the little envelopes they were shipped in all but a very few were dead. For # 4 daughter I had to intervene with the person who did the decorations the evening before the wedding and ask her to "unstuff" the tulle across the front of the church choir loft because it looked like a "giant turd".  Finding a way to talk to my friend without forever ruining our relationship and calm my daughter so she didn't stroke was quite a fete!  Each wedding however was beautiful and God has blessed each marriage.

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the giant white turd...I don't think I ever told B that's what it looked like. Thanks for coming to the rescue with that though.

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