On March 6th, 1998, Monique and Matthew decided
it was time to make their love whole. Like no other, they could not help
but make the night a special one. Even if it was not real, and most of
the people invited did now show as planned, it was a wonderful night! It
was placed on a chat called mIRC under the small server of: toast.il.us.escapenet.org.
Which, is not their normal meeting place on the net, but it suited the
couple just fine. The wedding started at close to 7:30pm central time and
lasted until close to 9pm (including the party). It was probably the shortest
wedding in all history, but trying to make plans fit with this was very
hard.
Monique ran in and out of the wedding channel more
excited than any women
could possibly be! No matter how much the guest told her to leave, she
could not possibly do just that. Finially the bridesmaids pulled the happy
bride into her room. Where a police officer was waiting them. Of course
Monique had not know what the problem was, but the bridesmaids giggled
and yelled "SURPRISE!" Monique laughed and eyed her friends shooing the
stripper out of the room. Monique began to place her lovely dress and good
luck charms on. "something old, something new, something borrowed, something
blue, and a lucky sixpence in her shoe." Mean-while, Matthew was pacing helplessly out in
the main room. The men tried to calm him, but it was not very successful.
How could anyone NOT be nervous or excited?? Finally the big moment was
about ready to happen. Everyone seated themselves in place and the music
began softly. To Matthew and Monique the wait was long, but soon they would
meet again, almost as they had done such a long time ago.
The music played slowly as the Flower girls threw
red and white rose pettles on the red carpet leading them to the alter; while
the small young ringbearers hugged the ring pillows tightly. Bridesmaids
entered with huge grins as they hung to the Bestmen that had courted them
down the row. Then came the beautiful Maid of Honor with the Bestman looking
mighty handsome together as they walked. The song that the wedding party
slowly faded, and that very well known song for the bride to enter came
sang throughout the church. The lovers' hearts fluddered wildly knowing
that the time had come!
Monique walked slowly holding tightly to her fathers
arm. The vale hid her face slightly as she past by all the watchers. Looking
slightly from side to side, as if seeing who had all chose to come. As
she made her way closer to Matthew and the preacher a tear fell down her
right cheek slowly. Her father lifted the vale and kissed her cheek gently
on the lips and hugged her with a grin. He shook Matthew's hand and whispered
his congradulations and a little joke to lighten Matt up a little. "If
you touch my daughter, I'll have to show you my riffle collection in the
basement!" Of course everyone laughed, but Matthew only smiled trying to
hold back tears of joy.
Matthew
took hold of Monique's hand gently and led her the rest of the way to the
alter. They looked at the preacher and smiled contently as they listened
to the opening prayer. "Amen." They preacher held a glass out to Matthew
and he sipped it, then handed to Monique for her to taste. They handed
the goblet back and listen silently as the preacher continued to speak
with his booming voice. It was now time to light the candle, so Monique
and Matthew took a candle and together lighted the single candle on the
alter.
The rings were given to them by the ring bearer,
and Matthew smiled as he took the ring from the small boy. Matthew told
hold of Monique's hand placing the ring on her finger he announced, "With
this ring I thee wed." Monique began to do the same thing as a tear again
rolled down her cheek. "With this ring I thee wed." Matthew
smiled and he too began to have tears. The preacher again spoke, then finally
stood next to the couple and prounced, "I now prounce you Husband, and
Wife. You may kiss the bride, Matthew." And so Matthew took hold of both
Monique's hands whispered how much he loved her, then kissed her. They
both took a dove out of a cage, slowly walked outside, and there they let
them fly free into the sky high above.
Our cake stood.. beautiful and ready for the first
bite to be taken. But as fast as anything, Sherie's lovable kitten jumped
in and made a mess. Someone from the back of the room screamed, "CAKE
FIGHT!", which started in a roar of people throwing themselves at the
cake to be able to fling it at the happy couple. Out of pure luck Monique
did save one piece for herself and Matthew; which was fed to eachother
with their hands.
Being that we had lost the wedding log
: - ( I retyped
the entire wedding. Of course that's not exactly the way it went, but at
least you can see it was a wonderful evening! We thank everyone for coming
to our wedding and we hope that our REAL wedding is just as exciting,
but, heh, with a lot more people! *adds to the fun ;-)* We are VERY
happy to have seen everyone that could make it!!
Preacher: Brad
Bride: Monique
Groom: Matthew
Maid-of-Honor: Jackie
Bestman-of-Honor: James
Flower Girls: Jessie and Erin
Ring Holder: Jake
Bridesmaid: Sherie
Bestmen: Andy and James
We are sad to say that our friends -- Vicki, Alex, Jeremy, Rich, Becky,
and Jenny -- did not attend our wonderful event. But they did tell of their
love for us both! Thank you all of you guys!!
From Matthew --- I only wish the wedding was better
than what it was. But I promise her, and myself...when we come to this
great moment in real life, it will be all we have ever dreamed of. I wrote
some things for her, and you may read them if you like. The first poem
I wrote for her was 'Mi Serafín'. The second poem, the main poem,
was written about our wedding. I wrote it before it even happened, so it
was how I pictured it. Both poems were written from my heart, but I'm not
sure if I conveyed what I wanted to, my feelings. Words are so hard to
come across. No set of words seem good enough for my baby, for my love.
But if you like, you can view the poems here. The main page was a lot better
laid out, but I fudged it for you lovely people. ;o) So here's the letters
I wrote her, enjoy. Thanks for checking out our special day. :)