July 5, Looking Back

After about 30 minutes of dancing I was told by the manager that we can’t have dancing there, he said that (because of the building being old) it would shake the ceiling below. I told Richard, who translated, why didn’t he say this when we said we were going to have band. What’s the purpose of having a band without dance? He knew it was going to be a wedding which includes dancing.

I ignored what he told me and didn’t tell my guests, so they continued to dance. He didn’t say anything. Maybe he didn’t say anything because it was not the feet stooping music that many young people dance to.

To say that the roof underneath is bad is BULL. If that was true, it would have been repaired. Yes, the building war built in 17th Century but this has been totally renovated (probably a couple of times in the past). And with it being a tourist place where hundreds of people pass by each day you can be sure everything would be fixed. It’s kept very nice by looking with all the shops that are in there. If the roof was in danger it would be closed and repair or should be closed and repaired.

The dance was mostly slow and the faster ones were not foot-stomping. So it was no different than people walking above.

Jayne pointed out to me that Maria del Carmen said that she would translate for us. Did she do so? No! She was late. If it wasn’t for Richard (who knows Spanish well), we would have got someone else. Maria being a lawyer should have kept her word or remembered her commitments.

I realized after the wedding that the CD I brought with the songs that we liked was not the original one. When my computer gave me problems I couldn’t make a copy. So I got out my old laptop and only found a couple of songs on there. So I made a copy of that. Then when I got my newer computer fixed I made a copy of the songs that Jayne and I selected. However, I don’t know where it is, though I labeled it. At least we had a substitute.

After the ceremony Richard asked me for my ID, ‘I have to give your cedular (ID) to the Judge to have it mutilated.’ I didn’t know what he meant at the time and thought it was a joke. It was returned with a punch hole in it. As I found out at that time everyone who gets married has to renew their ID. What they do is put a punch hole in your ID so other authorities know that you have to get a new one.

What a stupid law!

I was told later that you can still fly out on it if you show an airline ticket (I guess because many people go on honeymoon right away). Had my lawyer told me this last week when we were in her office, I would have had a color copy made and have it laminated so it would look almost like the original.

I can see why people have honeymoons – as it’s a time to relax from the planning and the things that go wrong – it’s quite stressful. Planning a wedding is like starting a business – there are a lot of things that have to be done, and there are still things go wrong. Maybe the guests don’t notice some of them but the Bride and Groom do.

Jayne gave me a pearl tie tack to wear that was her father’s (William Powell). I gave her the ‘something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.’ The old thing was a U.S. 10 cent coin made in 1876. The something new was a new cent (2008). The something borrowed (the 1876 coin). And the something blue was a sweet in blue paper (that’s the only things small and blue we had that would fit in her small purse!).

I wore on the other had a ring that was my grandfather’s and my father’s. In my pocket I had the ring that my mother gave me on my high school graduation. I couldn’t put it on my hand as I would have too many rings (with the marriage ring included).