Space Wedding Web Site (Photos)
FYI,
Yuri Malenchenko & Ekaterina Dmitriev's
Space Wedding web site
http://www.spacewedding.net
Wedding on Sunday, August 10th.
: News: The wedding ceremony will be held at the Gilruth Center
: at NASA, we will have a video hook up to where Yuri can see me
: and I can see Yuri. It will be fabulous! Decorations are
: provided by Plants and Petals of Houston. Than the reception
: will be at the Villa Capr and the inside decor will be done
: by Ricard from Make Believe. Another beautiful out of this
: world scene! The dress will be one of a kind from Weddings by
: Debbie by Audrey Hart.
: "Love is strong
: and you're so sweet
: you make me hard
: you make me weak
: love is strong
: and you're so sweet
: and someday babe
: we go to meet
: a glimpse of you
: is all it took
: a strangers glance
: it got me hooked
: I'm gonna follow you
: Across the stars
: I'm gonna follow you
: In swanky bars?.
: We make a beautiful team"
: -Rolling Stones, Voodoo Lounge
: Love is beautiful. Love is strong. Love is the component that
: we behold. So goes the story of Yuri and I. A long while ago,
: about 5 years ago. Yuri and I met for the first time at my
: mothers house. I have to say, it was a Russian holiday and too
: early in the morning for my taste but none the less I had
: gotten up and met him there with his friend Yuri Gidzenko. The
: man never left my mind after that day. I had run into him at
: several parties but the memory of Yuri, dark, handsome and
: utterly seductive lingered in my mind for many months that has
: turned time into years to come. In my head I had always heard
: a voice, and the voice spoke through distresses and hard times,
: that I would fall in love and marry the man I had already met
: and known once. Well as the years went on I pondered this idea
: and dragged it through many waters. But nothing came to avail.
: Than one day I was waiting tables at a restaurant in local Clear
; Lake, Texas. A Japanese restaurant, for my dear desire taste
: for Japanese food, Tokyo Bowl. A girlfriend called me up on the
: phone. It was April 12th , 2002. She said, "Kat, you have to
: come out with us, it is Yuri Gagarin's night at the Outpost
: Tavern, you have to come" I told her I was too tired and did not
: want to see anybody at this time. I just wanted to go home and
: go to sleep and go to my 8 am aerobics class as planned.
: Then another girlfriend, my bridesmaid, Laurian called and said
: "Lets go out. I have nothing to do tonight, lets go do something
: fun" So I said why not, lets go to the Outpost, Elena just called
: and said there was this great party. Lets go to that. So Laurian
: agrees. We head out there, sure enough there are so many people
: there. A swarm. We mingled, we talked. We met a French man there,
: Alain Binger. He kept telling us how beautiful we were. We laughed,
: tossed our heads back in utter compliment. But ignored the man's
: words. Laurian's boyfriend came to pick her up. I was left alone.
: So Alain approaches me, and tells me there is a friend he wants me
: to meet. So as I am putting my glass down to leave I look up, from
: the glass, to the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. A man in a
: black leather jacket, seduction just seeping from him in every angle
: I can see. There stands Yuri. In the quarter of a minute our eyes
: made contact. I knew this was the man I was going to marry. Looking
: into his eyes and knowing that this was the bond of my life. I knew
: at this instant that this was the most wonderful man, the gentlest,
: the kindest the one who can give me all the love in the world, and
: love that is beyond this world. I knew there was no turning back.
: This was the man who was going to make me believe that Love was
: strong, and he can make me weak. And so our romance began. We parted
: ways that evening with exchanged numbers and anxiety in ourselves.
: To meet the next day, I took off work, and spent the whole day in
: Galveston with Yuri. It was absolutely magic! That following Sunday
: I moved in with him, and so our love story began. And it has been
: climaxing ever since. Through long distance and through many miles
: up above myself. We have kept our love strong and we have kept our
: love alive. Just like an ordinary couple we have had our
: disagreements. But we manage through that. Because we believe in one
: another. I believe in him and he believes in me. There is nothing I
: can say that can explain what our love means to us. What we feel.
: What we know. About one another. We are strong. The further we dive
: into our relationship of fate, the further our love blossoms and
: grows and strengthens through the distance through the love that we
: have. I wish this to happen to every person who reads this. Because
: the magic is truly from within the soul. All sorts of people in
: magazines in books, tell you to believe in yourself and good things
: will happen. And I agree. If you believe in yourself in the path
: that you are chosen for. The magic comes alive, with anyone. I
: poured my heart out to Yuri, everything I ever had to hide,
: everything I was ever afraid to tell anyone else. He knows. And that
: is the best comfort for my soul and for my life. True love in its
: beauty unsheathed and inhaled.
Photos
http://www.spacewedding.net/pictures.htm
No wonder NASA wants to stop space tourism. If more couples want to
get married and have their honeymoon in space, us spacers are going to
get inundated with this kind of stuff. ;) Next thing you know, we are
going to have women running things*. :)
* Nod to musical comedy western "Paint Your Wagon" mocking the idea of
frontiers being totally male dominated.
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