May 29, 2010~ Truly The Best Day Of My Life

Everyone always says their wedding day is the best day of your life, and it is so true.  Exactly a month ago I wed my best friend the amazing JMS.  It is truly a day that has so many different, wonderful emotions that I can not even begin to describe until you experience it yourself.  For those of you who are already married you know what I am talking about, and for those of you who are waiting to walk down that aisle it is well worth the wait to find that perfect person that will be there to greet you at the end.  I will never forget the look on John's face, and the feeling of peace that came over me when I reached the top of that aisle. It was the BEST...simple pleasure ever.



After we had gotten engaged this past September, the biggest piece of advice that I got from friends that are married was to enjoy it, and that it goes by so fast.  Fast is an understatement...the day literally flies by and when you take the elevator up to your room with the love of your life after you have said I do and shaking that booty all night long on the dance floor...the only words you can mutter besides I love you, is "That was absolutely amazing".



Our wedding day was filled with emotions, being an emotional person it definitely made for a lot of happy tears.  The day is filled with so many amazing memories that I will share each week to all of you along with Nicole's Wedding Tips here on Simply Inspired.  For my first Wedding post I wanted to talk about my favorite memory, and our crazy wedding blooper.



 One thing I found was after we got engaged there were certain things I really, really, really wanted on the day of our wedding.  John and I decided that we would each get to choose a few things that we would have no matter what. The first we decided upon (after we decided to go the big wedding route) was that we wanted a beautiful ceremony, and a great party. I think we accomplished both! Mine were Write own Vows and get a videographer. Johns main want, besides the sentimental stuff I had him agree to was open bar. I truly love this man. When you finally decide on what those wants are it is so neat to see them play out on the big day! For example the open bar worked really well on top of writing our vows. At 11:00PM the wedding planner came over to John and I and said "Mr. and Mrs. Semeraro open bar is suppose to turn to cash right now, but the bartender does not feel comfortable serving the majority of the people here" how bout that great party we wanted! (Note: Everyone was staying at the hotel so I am not promoting excessive amounts of libations at any wedding. Safety first!)



Back to my favorite memory, the vows! Often times like most people, I find I can express myself very well on paper. For the most important day of my life, I wanted to make sure I was able to express all of my love for John based on the vows that I had written. The day after the wedding when we were thinking back to all of the special moments we both agreed that it was the highlight of our day. Without further adieu...I feel so inclined to share both of our vows on this blog to inspire all you brides to consider doing so as well.



My Vows:


John, you are my best friend and the love of my life, you make me happier then I could ever imagine and more loved than I ever thought possible. From the day that I met you have inspired me, and now your love, and support continues to make me a better, stronger person every day.



There are so many things about you that made me fall in love with you. You are a genuinely good person in a world where genuineness is often times hard to find. You are the most passionate, loving, and caring person I have ever known, I truly admire everything about you.



I love you for the way you make me laugh, and when you laugh at my jokes even when you may not think they are funny.



I love you for always telling me that I can do it, and relentlessly supporting my goals and aspirations.



I love you because you love the simple pleasures of life, that fill our hearts with true happiness and that you wake up each day excited about what is to come.


In our life together…



I promise to be by your side through every curve ball life may throw, and for every wonderful memory we build together.



I promise to listen to you when needed, and offer advice when wanted, to encourage and inspire you, to laugh with you and cry with you in times of happiness and sorrow, and to you love you unconditionally for the rest of our life.



Our love and our life has made me a firm believer that everything in life happens for a reason and that dreams really do come true. I am so happy that you are the man that I get to fall asleep with every night, and wake up next to every morning (along with sports center of course) for the rest of my life . I am so blessed to get to share the journey of life with such an amazing man, and I know that with you by my side with your strength, courage and determination nothing can keep us from our dreams.



John's Vows:



Lucky me to be in love with my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for and love with all my heart. When you smile, my whole world smiles back in a way I never thought was possible. When I look into your gorgeous blue eyes I see our love for the dreams we have already built, the dreams we are still working on and the dreams we will dream up years from now.



Your beauty, passion and ambition are unmatched and I feel so blessed to be the recipient of your endless love. I treasure all the simple moments that make our relationship so special. The way you embrace every second we share, tilt your head for a picture, nurgle me on the couch, hold my hand on an evening walk, share a romantic note, dazzle me with your karaoke performances, talk in your funny Palin voice and always welcome every new adventure with an energetic smile. Enjoying these simple moments and more is what makes our love a once in a lifetime forever connection, that only exists between me and you.



The most wonderful of all things in my life was the discovery of you. Our love has defied time, distance and changes in ourselves and our lives. I am in awe of your zest for life, optimism, confidence and ability to always wear your heart on your sleeve. I adore you not just for who you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you for what you make of yourself, but also what you make of me.



I promise to be your best friend, to be a true and faithful husband and to love you and accept you unconditionally. I promise to laugh when times are good and to suffer with you when times are bad. I pledge to wash your tears away with my kisses, to respect and support you, to be patient and open with you and to encourage and inspire you as we work together to achieve our goals.



I give you my hand, my heart and my everlasting love and look forward to watching our life unfold while we enjoy the simple pleasures and abundance of love God will bring to our marriage each and every day.



Each time I read them I still get tears in my eyes, it was truly my favorite moment of the day! Weddings are filled with memories and even now a month after the wedding I am still hearing stories and memories from people about their travels to Boston, experience in Boston, and there take on the wedding My favorite quote from one of John's notorious groomsmen was  "Can you guys get divorced in a month, and then remarried so you can have another wedding"  We appreciate that feedback and are happy everyone had a great time, but we will only be doing this once.



Now with all the perfection there is always going to be a wedding story.  Our wedding story was not any worse then anyone else's. (Note: I would love for all of you brides to post your wedding blooper in the comments section." At the time it was upsetting, and now it is just kind of funny! All I have to say is thank goodness for technology.  Our wedding blooper goes like this:



Starting virtually the day after we were engaged I downloaded "Here Comes The Bride" off I-tunes to listen to through the wedding planning process.  This version featured a loud, beautiful organ which was exactly what I wanted to walk down the aisle to on my big day.  I listened to this over and over and over again through our 8 month engagement.  I could not wait for the day of our wedding to hear the sound of that organ playing before I went down the aisle.  Especially considering St. Leonards Church in the North End of Boston was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful and had a huge organ!



Five minutes before I am suppose to walk down the aisle, my bestest friend Erin (My MOH)  comes down the stairs and says "Do you have the number to the organ player"  Which was code for in my mind:  the bastard is not here yet.  What rushed through my head at that moment was pure, bridezilla panic.  I consider myself to be one that handles pretty much any situation with a calm outlook, ultimately going into "I am going to solve this problem mode". Unfortunately Erin was faced with having to "Solve this problem" (HUGE problem).  Erin proceeds to say "We have a solution, the guitar player is going to play" and my response to my poor best friend at this time was "I don't want a guitar"—picture loud, high pitched, spoiled brat response.  Erin being the amazing friend that she says "ok" turns around walks back upstairs, to try to figure out.  At this point it is chaos...I have two of my bridesmaids, as well as my flower girls mom running up Hanover St. going from bar to bar trying to find an organist.  I am crying to my dad, and all the groomsmen are lined up in the hallway with the rest of the bridal party feeling badly, yet I know in the back of their mind they were thinking about how they could possible ICE someone in the church during this delay.  Love you groomsmen :)


Five minutes later, my genius friend comes down with a 50% downloaded copy of "Here Comes The Bride" on her I-Phone.  I guess I had listened to the song so much it was just meant to be for me to walk down the aisle to it. We had to get going at this point, so the processional started.  Then we got to the doors and it was time for me, mom, and dad to walk down that aisle to the beautiful sounds of "Here Comes The Bride"....on an iphone.... held up to a microphone. Thank goodness the phone didn't ring.  That my friends is the Semeraro Wedding Blooper.



Now as follow up to this story as most know what happened, but want to know the the end result. To cap this off I feel so inclined to let everyone know what actually happened to the organ man. He was in Colombia, South America and our wedding date got deleted from his blackberry. My initial reaction to this was to go ape S***, but in the grand scheme of things I realized it didn't matter because the show went on, and I am married to the love of my life, and now in complete newlywed bliss. On my part I will admit after thinking about it for a week after, I never actually followed up to remind him the week of the wedding as I did with all of my other vendors. Lesson learned, if I had followed up this may not have happened and my dream of walking down the aisle to that loud, blaring organ might have. Thank you I-Tunes you were just as good!



More fabulous wedding stories to come each week! If you have a wedding blooper that you want to share with Simply Inspired please post in the comments below, and if you have written your vows please post as well.  I am sure "brides to be" would love some Simple Inspiration!



Nicole's Wedding Tips of The Week


1. Sit down with your prince charming and write 2 things that you each really want on the big day.



2. Follow up with every  single one of your vendors a few days before the wedding.



3. Strongly consider writing your own vows, it is already a sacred moment but to personalize your vows make it that much more wonderful.



4. Enjoy every single second, get a videographer because the day is a blur and you will want to see all the stuff that went on behind the scenes.



Have a great week, and all my "brides to be" enjoy every second....because it flies by!