On giving the gifts of love, of memories, to their young, on their wedding day, translated…
Time is like that shooting star that’s grazed across the distant skies, gone, in a miniscule of a second, I’d recalled, that weakened and picky dark kid, there were, twenty-six slots on his health insurance card, and, in just one year’s time, he’d almost, filled up all the slots with the stamps from the doctors’ offices. Every time he’d had a stomach ache, we’d become, very tensed, and started sweating out cold sweats, fearing that he might have the intussusception; or he’s had a nose bleed in the middle of the night that won’t stop, and after the doctors checked him, it was found, that he’d, shoved that snail shell up his nostrils.
And this boy who’d had us all worried, turned, all of a sudden, into this, gentle and kind groom.
In order to celebrate my son and his girlfriend’s long-time love finally becoming something, my husband and I wrecked our brains, wondered, what can we give them, to make them cherish it for the rest of their lives together? The too expensive items would be way too out of our leagues, and, the regular plates and cups, they can’t express how we’d felt correctly, then, I’d recalled, that as I was finishing up a passage, “Cherishing Your Children’s Growth Processes”, I’d written, “One day, as my child gets ready to walk down the aisles, I will, hand these records of your coming of age, personally, to your other half, as the best kind of wedding present, so she can, know your pasts.”, I’d recalled how I’d kept track of my son’s life for the last twenty-eight years on end, I guess, this, would be the precious memories that money can’t buy.
And, all of these volumes of records of his coming of age is just, way too heavy, there was, NO way we’ll be able to, haul them all to the place where the wedding will be taking place, so I used plan B. I’d printed posters from the photos I’d kept of my son’s younger years, and, made another special wedding memories volume; from how he’d asked her to marry him, the order slip for the wedding cakes, the matching of their birth dates, the information for their wedding photo shoot abroad, the carefully selected wedding invitations, the contracts of the place where the wedding banquet was to be held, along with the menus too, then, I’d chosen the book, “A Blissful Marriage in the Making”, as a gift on their wedding day.
As the Wedding March sounded, being the person responsible for setting the wedding up, I’d given them my blessings, and, handed the gift into my child’s hands, they were, so very surprised. But, we’re not the only ones, who’d wanted, to surprise them, they too, had surprised us, by making a slideshow of both sides of the parents’ lives, from youth to now. They’d told us, that as they’d reshot the pictures, they’d found, that some of the photos were a little worn out, and so, they’d bought that digital frame, to store the newer versions, “that way, you can see the photos at any time, and can upload the photos from your cell phone as well as your cameras too.”, we were very moved, and, hugged the two of them tightly, and felt this surge of warmth and love that flowed.
hard to imagine, they were, both that young once, and look at them now!!! Not my photo here.
And maybe, these two gifts are not so expensive or precious, but, it’d showed our love for our children, as well as the gratitude they have toward us, it is, a memory that we shall cherish, for the rest of our lives, an heirloom, that’s worthy of being passed down from one generation to the next.
So, this, is the thought that goes into giving the newlywed an unforgettable wedding present, and by this example, it’d showed, that it doesn’t take that much money, just a little extra careful thought, and, you’ll be able to, make these memories last forever!