On October 16th Yuliza and I were legally married!

I flew back down to Guatemala for a long weekend in order to get married to Yuliza.  We had a little service in her house with her family and the pastor who will be doing our wedding ceremony in December.  We have lots of pictures from it on our wedding website.

In Guatemala there is always a separate legal marriage ceremony like this before the big wedding, it just normally is a few days before, not two months before!  But doing it early allows us to start the paperwork for the new visa that Yuliza needs in order to come to the U.S. as my wife.  While I was there I got to stay at Casa Shalom and visit with the kids again which was really fun as always.  And Yuli and I got to do some more wedding planning together, stuff like plan the flowers with the florist, taste the caterer’s food, and taste some cake.  It was a very fast trip, but it was obviously wonderful too.  I sometimes still can’t believe that we’re now married!