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Gay Respectability and How Our Families Reacted to Our Wedding
Today marks our two week wedding anniversary. My now-wife Laura and I were married in our backyard on Groundhogs Day. We had originally planned to celebrate this milesteon with Mexican food and a Henry Louis Gates marathon, but the frigid temps make it patently unfair to ask any human being to go out into the weather to deliver food. So it is soup from our pantry and HLG marathon.
Married life is pretty much the same, except I have the peace of mind that comes from knowing we are legal.
What I don’t have is much acknowledgement, much less celebration from our families. And that hurts. I thought weddings were a reason to celebrate, not just to like a Facebook post. But I seem to be wrong as only one person in our entire extended family has acknowledged and celebrated with the most lovelist card and message that you could ever want. A few others liked a Facebook post. And that’s that.
Granted we’ve been together almost 18 years and had a very small wedding with no guests beyon our three witnesses and no advance warning, but we didn’t exactly elope to a Gretna Green. Nor is it like we intentionally set out to snub anyone or exclude them from our pandemic wedding, emphasis on pandemic.
And also granted people may be waiting for a larger celebration, a delayed…
