Yep, April 1st is my wedding anniversary. I picked the date but it was entirely unintended.

Long story short:

My wife and I lived together before getting married. For months my wife’s mother would call every Sunday. Each time she’s ask to speak to me and every time she had the same question. ‘When are you two going to get married?’ My usual response was a basic ‘Don’t know, no plans, someday’ until that one Sunday I joked ‘April 1st’.

I never got a chance to answer that question again. The very next week I learned wedding plans were already underway. It was then I realized my mother-in-law and I don’t share the same sense of humor. I want to believe she took me literally and proceeded as any mother would when given the date. The other option is my wife and her mother conspired to hold me to my ‘word’. But it’s too late to see the phone records in the week between those two Sundays. So let’s just say I never knew what hit me.

I got what every married man needs. An anniversary date he can’t forget. You know – if I had it to do it all over again I would. I still haven’t learned to keep my mouth shut when a wisecrack pops into my head.

The secret of my long marriage:
My wife tells me she married me for my potential.
So I never wasted any by accomplishing something.

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1. Amy/GoAway, I'm Gardening! Says:
   April 1st, 2010 at 7:11 pm

   You do have it easy to remember the date! You just have to remember how many years you have been married. Hope you and your wife have a nice anniversary!

2. miss m Says:
   April 1st, 2010 at 8:57 pm

   Happy 32nd !

3. rainfield Says:
   April 2nd, 2010 at 6:22 am

   At the end, I do believe it is a story of April’s fool.

4. cindee Says:
   April 3rd, 2010 at 1:20 am

   Well that is a great story! And for an anniversery present you can pull an April Fools joke on your wife! What more can you ask for?

5. cindee Says:
   April 3rd, 2010 at 1:22 am

   LOL guess I need to quit playing farmville and copying and pasting stuff…LOL(-:

6. Monica the Garden Faerie Says:
   April 3rd, 2010 at 12:31 pm

   HA! I was married on April Fool’s Day in 1989. It was a Saturday. The marriage only lasted 13 years, but I’d get married on that day again, any time! (My ex far far exceeded his potential and that creates problems of its own, LOL.)

7. Ratty Says:
   April 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 pm

   I guess the joke was on you. And I hope none of those pictures is a self portrait. …Just kidding. I hope you had a happy anniversary.

8. Beverly Says:
   April 8th, 2010 at 3:14 am

   I was married on Friday June 13, 1958. My lucky day, really–great marriage, almost made it to 50 years before my John died.

   We got married then simply because it was the end of the spring quarter at Ohio State, time to find someone to marry us before summer work began. My landlady, an old German woman in her eighties, took me into the living room for some serious advice on marriage. It was: “Don’t get married on Friday the 13th.”

   What did she know!

9. Shakkya Says:
   April 29th, 2011 at 9:51 am

   I wanna marry next April fool’s day .Good Luck got me ..lol

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