Happy Anniversary to US!
I spent today looking at some of the posts on this site, something that I haven’t done in a long while. It was nice to look back on all that we went through this crazy year! It was even nicer to be reminded of how lovely our wedding day was. I totally forgot that we had this video of our vows HERE.
From the evening on April 30, 2011 where we were tired and excited and scared that our friends would never forgive us and the website failing …

We made this video a few minutes after we got married! This is our second take, I sobbed through our first! We’re VERY close to Marriage Equality passing in New York! It’s not too late to email your senator through newyorkequality.com.

www.newyorkequality.com from Taylor Pineiro on Vimeo.

Before I forget how that whole wedding thing went I need to make sure I blog about it!
When I left you last we were at the pier looking for Celia. Well, we found her! We got married quickly on the end of the pier and there is a cute little video HERE.
Here I am signing my life away:

Then it was off to the boat for the longer ceremony!
Something that needs to be noted about water taxis, they’re BUMPY! Insanely bumpy! Hilariously bumpy!
The sound system was amazing and we were able …

So. Celia thought, and we agreed, that it would be best to get married on land quickly before we got on the boat. Just in case there was any dispute of where we were in the water etc (oh Statue of Liberty that is really in New Jersey!). So we did the quickest of quick ceremonies and we were married!
As Celia said later, married and renewed your vows in about an hour! That’s commitment!

Untitled from David Epstein on Vimeo.
Lovely.
Here I am ‘borrowing’ something from Carissa!

We had a frantic moment at …

So! When we left you last we were hugging in front of the house and Carissa was inside calling the car service to take us to the Seaport!

This picture KILLS ME, it almost makes me cry there is so much love in it! It reminds me of a time when we were very first starting to date. Our first official outing was going canoeing at a lake somewhere else… this precursors the canoeing event years later when we had to carry our boats across a road a few time and …

Ok! So here we go! A little bit past our two-week-aversery and the dust is settling (I keep saying that, because man was it dusty!) and we have some pictures to share! How exciting!
So the night before the wedding I tried to meet Carissa to get our nails done but she didn’t make it… 100% my fault for not giving a tired out of towner directions! We ended up finding each other on 7th ave and after a failed attempt to go to Faces & Names we decided to go …

Here they are!

Thank you Dave for doing such a wonderful job! You are amazing!

I catch myself sometimes wanting to find a reason to regret our decision. There’s still a lot of confusion, people are coming around slowly… but then I think about my wedding day. And I smile. It’s uncontrollable. I told JCPE that my smile changed that day, it’s bigger, brighter and I’m so much happier than I ever have been. I loved my wedding day, I love my husband. We’re promised pictures tonight and when we get those you will get your stories!
Until then, I drew this picture.

Had to share immediately! I love that iphone photo app!