I turned 31 two months ago and sorry if it is rude to ask but
Mandy, how old is your DH? I ask because my Dh is older than me and you mentioned yours is, too. My DH will be 48 this year...For all of you slow at math (like me), 17 years difference....It works for us and wouldnt change it for the world. I am also an old soul and love it!
Not to be nosy but it peaked my curiosity when you said he was an old man! 
Siobhan
He is 8 1/2 years older. A lot of people were skeptical about "why" we were getting married but we proved them wrong about 9 months later
Shame isn't it? We met at church, actually we knew of each other for a long time. My parents were his SS teachers, my grandma taught him in elem. school, and his younger brother and I were in youth at church. He was in the military and after getting out he ran into my mom at
walmart and they chatted and he mentioned about how he was looking for a good girl to take to the movies. She joking and said something about "well if Mandy was older...." He started sitting with my grandma and parents in church and I sat with my friends and he started noticing I was a cutie, key word was, I think it sealed the deal the night I showed up at church in white jeans. He asked my parents if he could get to know me and they said yes as long as you understand no alone dates until she is 18 ( I was 9 months from turning 18) We had a dinner at church and for some reason ( I can't remember now) he rode with us to walmart and was going to our house but he had to pick up his truck at church and he asked me to ride with him. I said no thanks and I'll see you at the house. He pulled up next to us in traffic and said he was tired and had decide to go home. My mom was pissed and told me I had to call him an apologize fro being rude and invite him over. I did (even though I was NOT interested in him) and he came over. I was going to New York City the next morning and he stayed and hung out with me and mom while we packed my huge suitcase. When I got back from NY he was with my parents. I agreed to go out with him and realized I had to hang onto him because he was a great guy! We never dated alone until after my 18 birthday and never had opportunity's to be alone until after we were engaged! I know it's strange but I kinda think there is something to arranged marriages
JK! We got to know each other better than most people do before we were married because we wrote letters to each other, made sure we were compatible spiritually, and we left some things out of our relationship until we were married (not easy). We also went to 4 months of premarital counseling before I would agree to marry him.
We have been married 8 1/2 year and have been through a lot of things like parents illnesses, financial struggles, discovering I had a uncommon disorder, and heart breaking loss and we just get stronger and stronger! He will tell you he fell in love with me because I made him laugh a true laugh and I made him want to be better (his words not mine, really!) I fell in love in love with him because he treated me like a princess and was more interested in my mind and heart than my body (I had problems finding guys that were like that) That my story!
Mandy~I was just catching up on the past pages of the last thread and your wedding picture is just beautiful 
Very classic and timeless!
Ahhh, Thank you!
Channing We did not get anything but our proofs. My mom got sick before we got married and we went to our photog to try and arrange a cheaper package since Marc and I were picking up the wedding tab. He flipped out on us too. He insisted on doing the same amount of photos because he said he had booked us for the whole day and he turned away business and refused to any less time or the money my parents had already paid ($1,800+) was going to be kept as a cancellation fee and we would be SOL. He was gonna make us pay for a huge package and would not let us get less pictures. What really pissed me off was my bridal portrait was already paid for but b/c of sloppy record keeping on my dads part caused us to not have any proof and he would not turn it over. It was a big oil painting on canvas from Italy.
We have the proofs at least. We never returned them and I have scanned them into my computer.
Here you go, this is the picture that was in the news paper write up:
That was a freaking novel!
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It was really horrible. Anyhow, count me in to the fab 40+ club. I am having a mid life crisis....
