{"id":364,"date":"2015-05-06T06:46:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/?p=364"},"modified":"2015-05-06T06:46:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:46:15","slug":"a-perfect-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"A Perfect Moment…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll never forget Teri and Don, a couple married for fifty years and still<\/em> able to surprise each other.<\/p>\n

\"pic002\"<\/a>When I was asked to officiate at their vow-renewal ceremony, they told me they had some personal vows they’d written for each other.\u00a0I gotta tell ya, I love when couples do that; it’s always fun to watch a couple share what’s really inside their hearts with each other.<\/p>\n

When the time came at their ceremony for their vows, Teri brought out a set of little cards, with little-tiny printing on them, and got through them, with just a little<\/em> tearing up.\u00a0The moment was unforgettable…<\/p>\n

When Don’s turn came around, he fumbled around in his pockets for a moment;\u00a0I panicked, thinking he’d forgotten to bring his cards with him.\u00a0 Aaggh!<\/em><\/p>\n

But, it turned out he was just faking; after a few moments of faux pocket-searching, he simply took Teri’s hands in his, looked her straight in the eye, and recited his vows perfectly, word-for-word. Everyone watching (including me) was left\u00a0breathless.<\/em><\/p>\n

Afterwards, Don told me, “I wrote those vows months ago, and memorized them.\u00a0 I wasn’t about to depend on little cards…”<\/em><\/p>\n

… And I got to watch it up-close.\u00a0 (I am not kidding when I say I have the best job in the world.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll never forget Teri and Don, a couple married for fifty years and still able to surprise each other. When I was asked to officiate at their vow-renewal ceremony, they told me they had some personal vows they’d written for each other.\u00a0I gotta tell ya, I love when couples do that; it’s always fun to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-richs-blog","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}