Every day is an opportunity to experience something completely new. While it is not a stated goal of mine to try and introduce something unique to every single day, I must confess an almost unnatural level of curiosity about what lies under the next rock. To that end, my partner and I broke new ground yesterday.
I went shopping for wedding rings.
I went shopping at Tiffany’s
We bought wedding rings.
It’s one thing to decide to get married, it’s a small piece of hell working up the courage to bring up the subject, it’s a huge piece of heaven when the answer is yes. But things don’t really start to feel real until you actually take the first step towards the final outcome. Trust me, if you haven’t gotten to this point in your life and, at 58 I am probably a late bloomer, but picking out rings changes the idea from ethereal to real. 
Fortunately Tim and I have the exact same taste in almost everything. It took all of 1 minute to pick out the ring, a few more minutes to figure out the width (6mm), and then I found out, for the first time in my life that I have a size 12 finger. I guess that’s big because they had to hunt down my ring.
Anyway, I’ve been blogging mostly about the Camino de Santiago since last September (2014). I decided that marriage was something I wanted to do during my first Camino, reaffirmed it during my second Camino, and yesterday took the first big step towards making it real.
12/14/15 – The big day.
May 10, 2015
Joe Jeter
4 Comments
JoeLUNA
JoeJETER!
Congratulations to you and Tim! Well done!
katiebb7
I am so happy for you both. You know you are my hero. If there is anything I can do to help…just holler. December is a lovely month… full of sacred times….. as your “vow’s day” should be.
Love and Congratulations
Katie
jmichael
Joe, first, congratulations to both you and Tim; second, have you decided where the wedding will be? If it is here in San Diego I will do my best to be there.
jjadmin
Michael:
We are sort of anti-marriage when it comes to the ceremony and reception customs. We weren’t even going to get rings but then we decided that after our vows it would seem anticlimactic to not have a ring to seal the deal. Even though they are platinum, they are still just simple round bands.
Some day we might throw a party that would be our version of a reception but, for now, we don’t even have any plans for that. We are furiously trying to save enough money to buy a really nice home which means, based on the size of the mortgage we want, we need about $500,000. We are getting close but it will probably take another year to reach our goal and expensive weddings and receptions are not in the budget.
I appreciate the gesture. A lot of our friends have asked to come but I think we’re pretty firm on no ceremony. I think we have just been subjected to an excess of wedding hoopla with all of our married friends.