to Mrs DT ...

It was a bit chilly out this fine day ... :)

Mrs DT & I met in Colorado. We never really dated - the voice in my head told me she was the one and I'd better not mess this up. Not that I have a habit of messing things up. Too often. Well, maybe too often ...

But I didn't this time.

But to make up for not dating, we got married three times. Colorado acknowledges common-law marriage.
Wedding #1 - the one I recognize.

Mrs DT is from a foreign land. She had every intention of returning home; she turned down a good job because she was not staying. Until she met me. Ta da!

The Feds don't recognize common-law so we had to do it formal like so she could get a green card.
Went over to the county courthouse, talked some clerk into signing papers.
Wedding #2 - the "official" one. Today's date; Friday, February 13

Now people think, Aw, that's cute. A Valentine's Day wedding.
Nope. We don't celebrate Valentine's Day.
Like this year, we got married on Friday the 13th. It just happened to be February.
That's why I'm posting this now.

But then friends and relatives spoke their minds ...

So, we picked a date in May (nice weather) - I forget the date but I'm sure Mrs DT hasn't - where we had a friend (I think he was ordained in some way back in his hippie days) perform a ceremony with all the traditional trimmings including a reception.
Wedding #3 - the almost forgotten one.

We must have done something right - still together and still friends. I was thinking 30 years - perhaps wedding #1; looking at a calendar, wedding #2 must have been 1998 so 28 years "official".

She became a citizen in 2002 but that's a different story.

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