the happiest day ever

The big day finally came. It was exactly one year to the day that we had started dating. Before meeting Jen, I thought I'd never get married. I had learned that marriage doesn't work. It starts off pretty good, but then it just goes down hill from there. At least that is what I had seen. My dad, his dad, and Bob's grandpa all had been divorced and remarried and sometimes repeated the cycle. I never met Ward's dad, but Ward seemed to be bitter towards marriage. Women had always taken advantage of his kindness. The same thing was true about Bob. In fact, we had a man to man , face to face, father and son chat. He tried to give me his wisdom and advice. He suggested that Jen and I should just live together and see if things work out, I was too young to get married, I'll be sorry, and so on. I told him that I wasn't him and things WOULD work out.
Well, Jen and I got married. It was a great day. Her best friend, Sherry was her maid of honor and her nephew, Buddy was my best man. My brother, Rob and Buddy's brother, Don were my groomsmen. My sister,  Erin was the flower girl. Jen's dad walked her down the aisle. We got married towards the end of September, but it was the hottest day we ever had. The wedding went great. Bob and his new wife came to the wedding acting like they were behind it the whole time. The reception was held at Sheelah and her husband, Merlin's house and it was pretty relaxed. Being young and broke, we just did cake, snacks,  and punch. There was just family there. No expensive sit down meal like people have now. As a matter of fact our big wedding day meal was McDonald's. Our grand honeymoon was a night's stay at Griswald's in Claremont. It was a decent place, but again we were young and didn't have much cash. Sheelah and Merlin gave us a nights stay on the Queen Mary for another night. The whole day went by so, so fast. We were both extremely happy.
Even though we were happy, a big part of me was waiting for things to change. I don't know if I thought all the Willcutt men were cursed or maybe I thought I didn't deserve to be so happy. I know it sounds weird but for the first few years, I was waiting for everything to fall apart. Thankfully, it just got better and better.