| Posted: 08 December 2008 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | 6
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Do you or your sister live near your parents?
Not at all -- by more my parent's choice than ours. I grew up in Upstate New York. When I went to college in '82, my parents moved to Maryland where my dad started a business with my uncle. After my sister graduated high school in '89 and went to college, my parents moved to NC, where they live now, retired.
My folks LOVE the small towns ("real America") -- interesting that all three of their kids live in the city. My sister lives about 2miles away from me.
Don't parents usually FUME when they find out their kids eloped??
Yeah... except my sister has an ace -- my parents eloped, too. Now, my parents came back and had a "formal" wedding... "for the family," but my sister is not interested in that sort of concession. She was stressed about the whole idea of having some big to-do, which is why they avoided marrying for so long.
I think my wedding inspired her. We kept it simple, we made it about us and we showed love and humor. Some little extravagence (we are GAY after all), but nothing like one of those big, fat, Greek weddings, you know?
Maybe more people should have simple, gay weddings -- where it's about celebrating the ABILITY to marry our spouse as much as anything, so we hurry to get in front of the judge and get it done with barely enough time to get our tuxes on...
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