It's Official -- We're Married!

Everything about our marriage has been a bit unconventional and events flowed almost in a reverse order. We lived together and traveled the world first. The wedding proposal took place two years after the wedding day. The wedding having taken place on Chinese New Years Day has led to an anniversary that changes dates every year as we adhere to the lunar calendar. The ceremony was an ultra-low key affair at City Hall, a ceremony we almost missed as we slept in and had to fly down Fulton Street without breakfast and undressing from our pajamas in the car. The ceremony was also held during a few days that saw mostly same-sex marriages and ours was the last to be held before a 3-day recess began.
Finally, there were no wedding bands. I'm not talking about the 'wedding singer' type of wedding band here either. That, we did have in the form of Chinese New Year lion dancers and marching band. What I mean is that there were no wedding rings. Until yesterday, that is.
The plan to get wedding rings was always there. Our goal was to have wooden rings with a simple non-precious stone set into them, amber perhaps. Yesterday, while browsing the booths at the Filipino Festival we found a stall selling tropical hardwood and coconut jewelry. Minutes later, we had our wedding bands, rings made of sabo wood, the wood from the great kapok tree, the prolific emergent tree that is found in most of the world's rainforests.
It's great to finally have rings that are reminders not only of our love, commitment and union, but also of our travels and some of the most beautiful places in the world.