Jennifer and I have been married seven years today.
While living in Chicago we made the decision to get married on Tuesday.
We flew to Las Vegas on Friday.
We were married at 1:15 pm Sunday, June 20, 1999, at the Little Church of the West, the oldest existing structure on the Las Vegas Strip. The ceremony was presided over by Rev. Jim Hamilton who also conducted the ceremony in the 1992 film “Honeymoon in Vegas”. It was 108 degrees.
In attendance were a handful of good friends, but the only family was represented by Jennifer’s sister (now the proud mama of Baby Roma). Since that time, I’ve come to understand and respect the duress and disappointment (to say the least) we caused family and friends by maneuvering outside the conventional path of wedding planning and preparation. I want to thank everyone for forgiving us! With age comes experience. We’re thinking maybe we can make it up with a more formal 10-year anniversary celebration.
I’m so lucky to be married to someone as beautiful, intelligent, caring and dynamic as my wife. And for her giving me Trixie. Happy Anniversary Jennifer!
How does Subway sound tonight? (They have that two for Tuesday deal!)
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21 responses so far ↓
1 shawn // Jun 20, 2006 at 12:12 pm
snifff…..awww. congrats you two crazy mixed up kids.
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and subway does sound good.
2 Jamie // Jun 20, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Congrats!
And you can take part in a big formal wedding when Trixie gets married.
3 Kari // Jun 20, 2006 at 1:21 pm
how sweet, happy anniversary! just think of all the stress you saved yourselves. a 10-year celebration will be great.
my husband and i had a small wedding which became bigger than what we decided on, but we were able to pass the responsibility off to those people who thought it should be a certain way. it was a huge lesson in, “you can’t make everyone happy all the time”.
now with our 1st child due in less than 5 weeks, i hope things go smoother.
enjoy your dinner tonight, no matter what you decide on, oh and if nothing else i’m sure trixie wouldn’t mind cooking up something.
4 lori // Jun 20, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Happy Anniversary Ben & Jenn!
Seven years…they say the first 7 years are the hardest. Not sure who “they” are, but I guess it’s all in who you marry. Right? The first 4.75 years of marriage with my husband have been wonderful!
Hmmm…I hope that doesn’t mean we’re going to have 7 rough years all crammed into the next 2+ years. But I digress…
I wish you both MANY MORE years (and a lifetime) of HAPPINESS!
Love,
Lori (and husband)
P.S. Ben, you must not have Togo’s out where you live. Maybe it’s a West coast thing. It’s like an upscale Subway. But I’d wait to splurge on your 10th!
5 hannah // Jun 20, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Happy Anniversary y’all! What a sweet sweet message, Ben.
6 Judy // Jun 20, 2006 at 3:29 pm
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BEN AND JENN! And here’s to 10 times more!
7 Jenie // Jun 20, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Awww! Happy Anniversary you guys!!
8 Amy // Jun 20, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Congratulations! I am a long time lurker, love your site. It’s my anniversary today, too - 14 years here!!
9 Valerie // Jun 20, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Aw…I graduated from high school in 1999. But I’ve been married for 3 years now and in retrospect, I wish we would’ve gone to Vegas. It would’ve saved me a ton of anxiety attacks and not to mention money. My aunt and uncle did the Vegas elope thing like you and then had a formal ceremony a few years later. I think you have the right idea.
OOoh, Subway…..I’m about 8 weeks pregnant, and nothing sounds good to me….but Subway kind of does now. Thanks for the idea Ben! Hope you guys have a great celebration and congrats!
10 y // Jun 20, 2006 at 9:08 pm
hmmm…just guessing that Ben has no gift and no flowers! but really his ode should do!
oh…and if you did eat Subway…be sure to start it as an anniversary tradition!
11 Marna // Jun 20, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Congrats on the 7 years. I have been married 8 years today. I got a call this morning from my husband telling me Happy Annaversary. He is once again out of town on business. Leaving me with our beautiful 2 year old. This has been a regular occurance for the last 5 or 6 years. Enjoy your time together.
12 Aunt Bobbie // Jun 20, 2006 at 10:15 pm
What beautiful thoughts, Ben!
Jennifer, Aunt Jeanne and I were looking at your wedding pictures last night and didn’t realize how long it had been. Happy Anniversary…may it just get better and better. You’ve got the secret…appreciate each other!
13 Daniel // Jun 20, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Congrats! Here’s to over seven times seven more!
14 katy // Jun 21, 2006 at 7:13 am
Congrats guys! Ihope you had a wonderful anniversary. Yall are such a wonderful, beautiful couple.
15 Amy // Jun 21, 2006 at 7:31 am
My husband and I share the same anniversary as you and Jenn! We have just been married one year longer - and have one more child.
16 jj // Jun 21, 2006 at 8:48 am
I’m placing my bets that when Trixie was born all was forgiven by those family members! Nothing instigates forgiveness like the great joy of healthy, happy grandchildren - and having all that unspent wedding ceremony money to spend on spoiling the babies!
17 christina // Jun 21, 2006 at 10:37 am
happy anniversary! and thanks jen, for giving ben trixie, and for ben making the trixie update, which led to trixie tracker. . . yea!
18 Rob // Jun 21, 2006 at 11:14 am
Congratulations, guys.
19 KC // Jun 21, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Wow!
We made the decision to get married on Tuesday…and got married 2 years, 3 months and 19 days later, during which I planned. Constantly.
I’m in deep awe of your spontaneity and efficiency.
Hope you had a lovely anniversary.
20 Maddie's Mom // Jun 22, 2006 at 1:46 am
Congrats! Maddie’s Dad and I ran off and got married 11 years ago, and we’ve never regretted it. (The marriage or the elopement!)
21 Laura // Jun 23, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Congratulations! And what a coincidence - we eloped to Vegas as well (husband proposed on the way to the airport, having booked the trip and everything without my knowledge) in 1993 and we were married the next day in the chapel that was in ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ - World Famous Chapel of the Bells. It was just the two of us and I wouldn’t have changed a thing!
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