May 23, 2006
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The Daily News
Congratulations Jenny and Jeffrey Ramirez!!!
1 May 20, 2006.
2 A picture perfect wedding!
3 Here's Jenny in her beautiful Cinderella dress:
3 We watched a fairy tale.
4 The wedding of Jenny and Jeff worked on all levels. The church was beautiful, but I didn't get any pictures of the ceremony itself; I was hesitant about interrupting the solemnity of the moment.
5 I had to use my old camera which pretty much sucked. But it's the only game in town.
6 It began Friday afternoon when I was off to the rehearsal. I was in the process of merging on to the freeway when some lady coming around 85 or 90 mph almost hit me. I swerved, and the TOOONDRA did a 360, spinning completely out of control.
7 All I saw was the cab, and that I was on a death ride, spinning round and round, not knowing where I would wind up. I wound up all the way up an embankment! I backed down, checked the TOONDRA, realized I was FACING traffic, and turned it around, and then proceeded to the rehearsal!
8 You can't hurt steel. <slow down my beating heart!>
9 The whole way there I saw God and angels, I swear to you. I thought, "What if this is like the Sixth Sense and I don't realize I'm dead?"
10 But I'm guessing I was alive, which made this whole wedding a spiritual and miraculous one.
11 The rehearsal gave way to a beautiful morning on Saturday, the day of the wedding. Jenny called me at the crack of dawn to see if I could pick up the cake and bring some things to the reception hall. I said sure, and wished her the best.
12 I got to her place and got the stuff, flew to the reception hall, and it was LOCKED! NOOOOOOOOO!!!! But fortunately some people were there and I got in with the cake. I flew back to San Jose, hit some traffic, picked up Thuy, and we shot back to the church, arriving at exactly 1:59 p.m. Our orchestra played and angels seemed everywhere.
13 Within what seemed like seconds, I was up at the pulpit reading from St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians 13:1-13.
14 Just now, Jan Leno: "The Lord is TALKING to you! Listen!" I swear. As I was just reading St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians!
15 What I loved about reading that was that the very last part of that passage happened to be almost the exact last lines I spoke in my last high school play, Our Amazing Journey, so many years ago. It went like this, although slightly paraphrased since then. Here are the lines I spoke at Jenny's wedding.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three, and the greatest of these is love.
My lines were a bit different, but with the same basic sentiment in my Senior year. Here are the last lines I spoke as an actor in high school:
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I understood as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, as also I am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.
Amazing coincidence.
16 With that, I'll report a brief overview of the wedding that beautiful day. Jenny and Jeff looked like Cinderella and the Prince, and everything went beautifully.
17 I walked around Mountain View with Thuy for a bit; we just talked about everything and nothing, as I love doing, and talked of all things. We went to the reception and I saw lots of people I hadn't seen in years.
18 People talked; Jenny's sister Rachael spoke poignantly about how much she would miss her baby sister, and others talked as well. Jenny spoke to the crowd of how this WASN'T the wedding of her dreams, because the wedding of her dreams had everything going horribly wrong, and that this was better than she ever could have imagined. Just a sincere and beautiful thanks to everyone who helped get her there.
19 From there we toasted, danced, chatted, and enjoyed a wonderful celebration of a perfect wedding.
20 I don't usually devote an entire DN to one person, but Jenny has meant more to the Drama Workshop perhaps than anyone over the years. She joined in when she was 11 years old, and I had the pleasure of watching her grow from crayons into the beautiful bride who graced all of us with her joy on Saturday. And Jeff seems just as in love with her as she is with him.
21 It's a Cinderella story, and nothing else matters. It had hundreds of little moments. Here are some:
22 Jeff removed the garter with his teeth, which was pretty fun!
23 She shot the bouquet over to Rachael. Rachael later returned in a hat and danced with her baby sis!
24 The bride and groom exchanged cake a bit overly outside the mouth and onto the nose and cheeks!
25 Young people danced with old, and everyone's eyes danced in fanciful imagination. There was so much more, but not enough room here. How's this sound:
26 On Saturday, I saw a fairy tale.
27 Congratulations to the newlyweds.
28 Thank you and thank God for a grand day.
29 Peace.
~H~
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