Husband and Wife

So Sam and myself had been dating for almost a year and we were both still in high school. Sam was on the electricity team and was going to have to go to a convention out of town. I was going to prom that weekend and he was so upset that he could not take me. He calls me on Thursday night and asks if he can come over first thing Friday morning. Of course I had to be to school by 8am and he was having to leave town by 9 am, so I was worried he would make me late, and I hate to be late any where! So I called my mom who was visiting a friend that night and asked if it was fine if he came by that night. She said it was, and I called him back.

Around 9pm that night the door bell rings, and I wondered why on earth he had rang the door bell. He always just walked in or knocked if he didn't see my car there. So as I go to the door, I pick up the home phone and begin to call a friend of mine. I thought that she would talk to me in case it was someone prowling around. I open the living room door and there through the glass is Sam on his knee. I hung up on my friend and opened the glass door, asking Sam what in the heck he was doing! He said "Stacy, the first night that we had dinner, and we left the restaurant I asked you what you were doing for the rest of your life. I ask you again today what are you doing for the rest of your life? For the rest of mine, I know that I want it to be with you. To wake up to you and go to bed with you, to love you and call you my own." So he pulls out the ring, and I totally panicked and slammed the door shut. I then realized what I had done and opened the door and hugged him while I cried. We were married August 1, 1997 at the First Assembly of God church in Mena. I was 17 years old, he was 18 and I still had a whole year of school to finish (NO, I was not pregnant)!

My colors were white, burgundy and teal. My parents didn't have alot of money, so thank goodness my mom was a florist. I wanted silk flowers so I could keep them. I still have every flower from my wedding stored for the girls. My maid's dress was teal with a train that pinned to the back to make it look like mine. All the men wore black tuxes with teal fixings, except Sam who wore black on white, and the candle lighters who had black on burgundy. As the candles were being lit the song "Butterfly Kisses" was being played. I had worked so hard on this part, and knew that they had to have all the candles lite before the last verses.

On the last verses it says "She'll change her name today, she'll make a promise and I'll give her away, standing in the bride room just staring at her. She asks what I am thinking, and I said I'm not sure. I just feel like I'm loosing my baby girl. She leaned over and gave me butterfly kisses, with her mother there. Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair. Walk me down the isle daddy, it's just about time. Does my wedding gown look pretty daddy...daddy don't cry."

On the beginning of this verse the doors were swung open and my father walked me down the isle. We lit our unity candles to "It's your love", by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, and walked out to the traditional wedding music.

Okay, my parents could not afford a big photographer so everyone had cameras and a friend took some shots of us. I know, I know, I was wearing a size 1/2 in pants and was pushing a whole 105 pounds. Sicking I know, I will never be that way again. Sam looks so young in this picture wow at how we age lol.

Alicia Finch was my maid of honor and of course she stood out that day with this cute outfit. She was the one that caught my wedding bouquet after the wedding (took her 7 years to get married though).


Okay, this is Josh Hennings, and he was the best man. I knew that Sam was fretting over money, even though we were only going to Ft. Smith for our honeymoon. So I suggested that Josh steal me and call to tell Sam how much money he had to raise to get me back. Josh was all for it and off we went. I was laughing so hard I could barely stand.

Sam had to wait for the phone call. Mom said his face fell when he found out I was gone. "What do I do now?" he asked mom. She tells him that Josh is supposed to call and then he will be required to gather money to pay ransom to get me back. So he waited and Josh called him and let him know the amount and that when he got that amount he could call us back and this number. Sam gets a pen to write it down when he realizes that it is his parents number (which was about 3 blocks from the church) ha ha.
So Sam gathers money from the guest and he ends up gathering over $200.00 for our honeymoon. Guest at the wedding were in hysterical laughs knowing that this poor boy was in for a time trying to get me back. Dad kept telling him that I was his expense now (thanks dad). We went on our honeymoon to Ft. Smith, I mean we couldn't go far, Sam had work in two days and I started school the next week. Tomorrow will be a not so short story of the trials of our first year, the birth of our first daughter, and the death of our first daughter.