PreciousQueen
08-22-2002, 01:36 AM
Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum. I am happy that I found you all. Now I can talk to people like me who are sane (most of the time? smile) and truly understands what another goes through.
Since the thread is talking about prison weddings -- I'd like to had my .50cents also.
I got married Last August the 25th -- it was the most wonderful experience I'd ever had. I'd do it again and again. My husband gets released on October 15th 2002 (a little less than 2 months now -- I can't believe it.) He was released from the prison itself in Louisiana on April 15th, went to a halfway house and he says the it's worse than the prison! Anyway, he put in a request for a wedding and they gave him a packet to send to me, I filled it out and mailed it back, he then let me know that we could do August 25th -- this was in June of 2001. Up until the week of the wedding, that Sunday before, he called me and said, "Baby, we can't get married, they say that I haven't done everything that I was supposed to do." I asked him what was that -- he said that he had to file for the marriage license, yada-yada -- I told him, honey, I did all that stuff already! He was overjoyed -- but they could have still stopped him because they say that HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO IT since I was getting married there -- out of my own home town. That sucked because they never gave him any further instructions -- so be it, I went to Louisiana and went to town hall in the nick of time (72 hours prior) and got our marriage license. Then, Saturday came, it was my FIRST TIME SEEING MY HUSBAND TO BE IN THE FLESH! We'd been communicating by letter and photographs only. My cousin who had been incarcerated a good 4 years prior befriended him and introduced us. It was ALL GOOD -- we both felt like we'd been looking at each other for ages! LOL!
We waited and waited and waited, our wedding was scheduled for 9:30 AM -- the minister who was to do the wedding went away on a golf trip!!!!! As God would be so gracious and kind to provide a "ram in the bush" -- the fill in guard that usually works in the mail room was taking someone else's spot for a Saturday and he was an ordained minister in the state of Louisiana! We had exchanged conversation at the check-in point in the lobby, I'm very friendly and I meet no strangers. He volunteered to do the ceremony and he did. He prayed without bias, he was effective and we "felt the power" -- God's seal of approval on our decision and marriage. I happily gave him the $50 bucks we'd put aside for the "would-be minister" -- I just want to say, I'm happy that I married Willie. It's a shame that the warden there is so heartless -- I don't even know why people who do not like people or who don't have a heart for human services even work there! It's almost like they live to hurt people. These people who have or haven't committed crimes are paying their due -- it gives no one a right to treat them inhumane. Texas is notorious for corruption in the prisons -- I still don't know why they get away with it. So is Louisiana! It's no wonder foreigners have no respect for American Government, we treat our own people in the worst of ways. Convict or not, these lives are due fair and humane treatment.:pissed:
Since the thread is talking about prison weddings -- I'd like to had my .50cents also.
I got married Last August the 25th -- it was the most wonderful experience I'd ever had. I'd do it again and again. My husband gets released on October 15th 2002 (a little less than 2 months now -- I can't believe it.) He was released from the prison itself in Louisiana on April 15th, went to a halfway house and he says the it's worse than the prison! Anyway, he put in a request for a wedding and they gave him a packet to send to me, I filled it out and mailed it back, he then let me know that we could do August 25th -- this was in June of 2001. Up until the week of the wedding, that Sunday before, he called me and said, "Baby, we can't get married, they say that I haven't done everything that I was supposed to do." I asked him what was that -- he said that he had to file for the marriage license, yada-yada -- I told him, honey, I did all that stuff already! He was overjoyed -- but they could have still stopped him because they say that HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO IT since I was getting married there -- out of my own home town. That sucked because they never gave him any further instructions -- so be it, I went to Louisiana and went to town hall in the nick of time (72 hours prior) and got our marriage license. Then, Saturday came, it was my FIRST TIME SEEING MY HUSBAND TO BE IN THE FLESH! We'd been communicating by letter and photographs only. My cousin who had been incarcerated a good 4 years prior befriended him and introduced us. It was ALL GOOD -- we both felt like we'd been looking at each other for ages! LOL!
We waited and waited and waited, our wedding was scheduled for 9:30 AM -- the minister who was to do the wedding went away on a golf trip!!!!! As God would be so gracious and kind to provide a "ram in the bush" -- the fill in guard that usually works in the mail room was taking someone else's spot for a Saturday and he was an ordained minister in the state of Louisiana! We had exchanged conversation at the check-in point in the lobby, I'm very friendly and I meet no strangers. He volunteered to do the ceremony and he did. He prayed without bias, he was effective and we "felt the power" -- God's seal of approval on our decision and marriage. I happily gave him the $50 bucks we'd put aside for the "would-be minister" -- I just want to say, I'm happy that I married Willie. It's a shame that the warden there is so heartless -- I don't even know why people who do not like people or who don't have a heart for human services even work there! It's almost like they live to hurt people. These people who have or haven't committed crimes are paying their due -- it gives no one a right to treat them inhumane. Texas is notorious for corruption in the prisons -- I still don't know why they get away with it. So is Louisiana! It's no wonder foreigners have no respect for American Government, we treat our own people in the worst of ways. Convict or not, these lives are due fair and humane treatment.:pissed: