{"id":11843,"date":"2013-04-08T06:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T10:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2013-04-08T06:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T10:18:42","slug":"my-red-letter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=11843","title":{"rendered":"My Red Letter Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my 21st birthday, I met the man that I would marry. \u00a0He was a “Firstie” at the Naval Academy, and I was a senior in college. \u00a0It sounds like the start of a storybook tale, and that day really was one. \u00a0Our wedding day was \u00a0another day that dreams are made of, and today is our anniversary.<\/p>\n

After all of these years of blogging, I have something to share that I have never posted here before – and that is a glimpse of our wedding day. \u00a0Randy and I got married at the United States Naval Academy Chapel<\/a>, in the year of the Academy’s 150th anniversary. \u00a0I pulled out some pictures from our hope chest, and scanned them to share with you – I’m sorry the photo quality isn’t great. \u00a0A friend and I were recently commenting on how different wedding photography is today – I would have loved today’s photo-journal style of photography back on our big day. \u00a0I had no idea then where I would be 18 years later, but I find it interesting to see that I chose rhinestones for my wedding jewelry then. \u00a0I guess things haven’t changed after all these years; I still love a dose of sparkle!<\/p>\n

\"USNA<\/p>\n

\"Naval<\/p>\n

The first line of “Eternal Father, Strong to Save” \u00a0– from the Navy Hymn is inscribed above the stained glass.<\/p>\n

\"Stained<\/p>\n

Tiffany stained glass windows above the altar.<\/p>\n

\"Naval<\/p>\n

The traditional “tap” with the sword and a “Welcome to the Navy!”<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/p>\n

\"Cutting<\/p>\n

My husband in choker whites, an arch of swords, a drizzle of rain for good luck, and my family and friends all around – who could ask for more? \u00a0We filled the day with many traditions. \u00a0One Navy tradition is cutting the cake together with the sword – to this day, my boys are fascinated that my husband actually has a sword<\/em>. \u00a0My 4 year old son has told strangers (as recently as this weekend), “My Dad has a Navy<\/em> sword!”. \u00a0A favorite memory is how our best man saved a piece of wedding cake for us to enjoy back in our honeymoon suite, when the excitement of the day had died down and we could actually sit down and savor a bite. Wasn’t he thoughtful? \u00a0I’m flooded with great memories when I think back on this day.<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/p>\n

Thank you for joining me as I remember my red letter day. \u00a0I have been blessed.<\/p>\n

Cindy, xoxo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On my 21st birthday, I met the man that I would marry. \u00a0He was a “Firstie” at the Naval Academy, and I was a senior in college. \u00a0It sounds like the start of a storybook tale, and that day really was one. \u00a0Our wedding day was \u00a0another day that dreams are made of, and today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}