Josh and Liz

This is Josh and Liz

Married October 20, 2012

This is our son Josh and our lovely new daughter-in-law Liz.

We fully intended to take this photo in their wedding regalia.  We even relocated the Lovebirds sign to the reception in hopes that they and their guests would take their pictures and show their support for the Vote No initiative by posting their photos.  But as these things go, we were all having so much fun, we forgot to get the photo and had to do a quick pic the morning we were off to drop them at the airport...so it's still dark and a little rainy, but that's life, right?  Best intentions and life interventions.  So it goes in a marriage, too, you make a lot of plans and have many expectations, and stuff happens.  A sense of humor helps.  If nothing else, these two have this going for them...they know how to laugh.

As I said, Josh and Liz were enthusiastic about bringing the sign to the wedding.  Many weddings celebrated this year are including a "Vote No" component to the festivities in an effort to call attention to the inequities surrounding the proposed amendment.  In fact, we recently attended the wedding of a young couple, dear friends of Josh and Liz's, in which the entire wedding party wore small, elegant white ribbons to show their support.  

It feels like such a small, passive thing to do, wearing a ribbon or putting up a sign, but it is so important to do it...reaching one or two people at these intimate events could start a wave of changing attitudes.  I have hope.  The best conversation I heard about from the wedding reception involved the bride's father (see John and Nancy post) and went something like this:

Guest: "What's that sign about?"

John:   "It's voicing an opposition to the proposed marriage amendment."

Guest: "Are there gay people here at the wedding?"

John:   "Listen, if every gay person had a light bulb over their heads, you'd need a welder's

             mask to see them!"