As 1991 wrapped up and 1992 started up, plans for our wedding came to the forefront. John had school, work and ROTC to keep him busy and I had my full time job and all the wedding preparations to keep me busy. We didn't want to spend a lot of money on our wedding and frankly we preferred cash for gifts. We wanted to have as much as possible set aside for our honeymoon in Hawaii. We were oh so young but determined to do things our way. I had my dress custom made from my own design and John wore his dress blues for the occasion.
April 25th dawned bright and beautiful. We had a simple but lovely ceremony at John's church immediately followed by a reception in the fellowship hall at the church. Our pictures, flowers and the cake came from local business and we couldn't have been happier with the way things turned out. Looking back I think we spent a total of $2500 on everything.
John's grandmother had not been well enough to attend the ceremony. So as soon as the reception was over John and I headed to the hospital in all our wedding finery to surprise her with her flower bouquet. As soon as she saw us she starting crying tears of happiness. To this day John and I are so happy we made that effort since unfortunately grandmother passed away two days later. Grandmother Warmann we still miss you!
John had to finish up his spring classes and take his final exams. So we waited until May 23rd to start our honeymoon. This was a big undertaking for us. Up until this point all of our travels had been local and in the car. Suddenly, at age 20, we are getting on an airplane and flying half-way around the world by ourselves. The honeymoon was everything we expected and much much more. We felt like we were in paradise and everything went smoothly.
We came back from Hawaii with a solid start to our marriage and great communication set in place.
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