I married the same man three times!

Hi there,

Congratulations Alex, I loved your story of how you got married, you are a romantic, right? The evidence is that lovely story of spending all your hard earned money on a wedding bouquet for your bride.

From romantic to teacher mode:

"The period of lack, lack of everything"

Try;

"This was a period of paucity, a lack of everything"

My wedding anniversary is also coming up, well two of them are. I'm going to explain my title today which sounds like it comes from a gossip magazine!

Yes, I married the same man three times, twice in Malaysia and once in UK. Is this a record do you think? The last of the weddings took place in London and by the time the Registrar asked, “Have you been married before?” We didn’t know what to say? The three weddings stretched over 3 months and we have now forgotten the date of the first one, sometime in October, possibly the 14th?

Anyway, here’s the story; the first wedding was a religious one in KL, the second about 6 weeks later on November 25th was I suppose a cultural one and also took place in KL. The third and final one took place in London on 22nd December. We usually celebrate the December event probably because I can remember the date and my family remembers it too and send cards and so on. Culturally the celebration of wedding anniversaries seems to be not really so important in Malaysia. But anyway my role in my family is to remember all celebrations! I’m the keeper of the diary!

Why did we get married so many times? Well, we wanted to include all of our diverse families and to start by making sure that everybody in our family was happy. We enjoyed all of the occassions, but the final party in London was the best. A lot of my mum's relations from Ireland came over for the wedding and they sung and played traditional music and danced and really made it special!

So for us it is 23 years of marriage to celebrate sometime this year. Mustapha came home from a trip yesterday and I was very pleased to see him. I’d definitely missed him; that in itself is testimony to 23 years of by and large happy married life! I'm too much of a realist to want to suggest that marriage is always a bed of roses!

Tricia

Lexis and patterns from today:

A wedding bouquet (flowers carried by the bride)

a paucity of something (a lack of something)

to be coming up ( is happening soon)

the Registrar ( the name of the official who conducts civil marriages)

the keeper of something ( the person who takes charge of something)

to be testimony to something ( clear evidence of something)

by and large ( when everything about a situation is considered together)

a bed of roses ( an easy or happy situation)

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