hallowedding

whenever halloween rolls around, it reminds me of my wedding anniversary because of its proximity to our actual date (11/2) and my husband likes to joke about our "pumpkin-themed" wedding, since i picked a pale orange and sage green as our colors.  i hadn't even realized this about the color scheme until he pointed it out a year or so later, and he loves teasing me about it because i'll tell him it WAS NOT a halloween wedding.

during our first halloween in the house, we bought a ridiculous amount (and variety, since i wanted to make sure every kid was happy) of candy and alternated door duty for most of the night.  whenever it was my husband's turn and he'd hear the doorbell ring, he'd race to the door to hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters.  i liked hearing him talk to the children during those brief intervals throughout the night, because it reminded me of what a wonderful father he would be someday.

it's remarkable to have thoughts like this about our future children and them trick-or-treating someday when it doesn't seem so long ago that we were still dressing up ourselves, bearing the cold with our friends, going door to door, trading our candy at the end of the night.  if anything, halloween reminds me of youthfulness and merriment, a night of entertainment and fun.  so maybe it's not a bad thing for our wedding to be so fondly compared to halloween... after all, we could say the same things about our special night.