Early June in Oklahoma. Hot. The evening light slants through the stain glass windows and heats up the church. Guests arrive. The mothers are seated. The wedding memories start. Actually, wedding memories started the night before. There had been the rehearsal and its dinner. Wade, being best man, crashed out for the weekend with me […]
Seven months is a good amount to be engaged. Not too long for the groom and just long enough to get a wedding planned. Dona and I began with Doris, the church’s wedding planner. Doris had the scoop on protocol. She procured the wedding décor from the church. She knew where to go for flowers […]
Rules of engagement for impending marriage that is, not rules of war. Marriage isn’t supposed to be a battlefield. Life is the battlefield. You’re both in the foxhole together; don’t turn your rifles on each other. I last wrote in this series about falling in love, leaving my past self ready to propose to Dona. […]
While Dona and I were at college, we knew some guys who felt it ‘unspiritual’ to date. I wondered if they expected a lady dressed in white to show up at the door and say, “I’m God’s will for your life.” But I do understand their trepidation. It’s a scary thing to be young and […]
Before I leave dating lessons learned from Dona, I’ll give a few dating rules: Three lighthearted rules from Dona and three heavy rules from me. Scoff if you want, but they worked toward our relationship. Dona’s Dating Rule #1: Never Date a Guy Who Owns a Van A van could mean… If you can’t figure […]
I started this particular blog series about lessons learned from Dona, but several lessons we learned together. What follows are three that stayed with us throughout our time together. These lessons came early in our relationship, from dates during the cool 80’s. As time progressed, we tagged these lessons by the three restaurants we had […]
