Personal Narrative: The Big Day

The fear of commitment, when my husband, then just my boyfriend, asked me to marry him I was a 22-year-old carefree girl, and he was 24 years old, we had known each other only for a few months, 5 to be exact. In the beginning I was very apprehensive about it, even though I did not think twice to say yes, because since the beginning of the relationship it feel “Right” and it felt like we knew each other from a long time, so I said yes on February 14, 2005, he went to the place where I used to work, a beauty salon in the Bronx and it was full of people, so he got down on his knee and he took out the ring, my first reaction was “This can’t be right, what is going on?” the client that I was taking care off at the time started screaming “OMG, OH

My cousin, her fiancé at that time, my fiancé and me went there and had a blast that night, we immediately started making preparations for our wedding, choosing the date for the “Big Day” was a bit of a challenge, because my fiancé wanted to include his two brothers in the wedding, but they were both listed in Marine Corps, and getting ready to be deployed to IRAQ, and both of them lived in California at the time. Turns out that the only days that they could travel and be with us in New Jersey would be in the first week of May, and it already was the first couple of weeks of

I had the brilliant Idea of working that day until 12 noon, like I said before, at the time I was working in a beauty salon, so my co-workers did my hair and makeup in there, but I ended up leaving around 2:30pm, I used to live about 5 minutes away by car, and I was so afraid that I was not able to make it but I went to my house and just took a quick shower, because I was already late I called a taxi while I was getting ready, and ended up getting out of my house by 2:45, unfortunately, I didn’t remember that the Yankees were playing at home that day, and the traffic was so crazy, that by the time I got to the court, it was 1 minute before closing, thank God they let me in, because my future husband was waiting for me inside the court very upset, I guess he thought that I might not show