TWENTY FIVE WONDERFUL YEARS – June 6, 2013

WOW! God has truely blessed me with a wonderful wife, helper, lover, mate, and companion. I could not ask for more in a soul mate, than what God has brought into my life. She has grown even more beautiful each of the 25 years we’ve been together. She truely is a keeper!!

We had both been married before……  we had been planning to go on a cruise together ….. the original plan was to ask Sheri to marry me while we were on the cruise, I had it all planned out, and was sure it would be very romantic …. but wait …. plans changed, and I asked her to elope with me, and get married on board the SS Asure Seas by the captain out at sea, I had it all planned out, and was sure it would be very romantic …. but wait …. plans changed, do you know that does not really happen, you get married in port, by a pastor, not the captain. You see I had it all planned out, and was sure it would be very romantic ….

The Chaplin, my Beautiful Bride, myself, and 7 guests…. L to R : Tom Messner Sr., Rosalie Messner, Steve Wagner, Jessica Pattison, Joey, Sarah Pattison, and Jim Seaman, … Together we had it was all planned out, and was  VERY ROMANTIC!

Looking back, we should have sprung for a photographer ……….

Pages scanned into the computer from our wedding albumn, scrapbook. We have the tickets to Disneyland from the weekend before the cruise,(adults $19.25, child $14.75), the reciepts from The Cheesecake Factory, reciepts from the LA county courthouse from where we got the license,($35.00 + $15.00 to park downtown LA for 2-3 hours),  and lots of memorabilia from our honeymoon cruise.   We had it all planned out, and was  VERY ROMANTIC! * note: with the exception of the sea sickness…. but I wont mention that.

The “professional” images were shot by a close friend and published author Chuck Lewis, (When Good Men Ride) after we returned from our honeymoon.