Senior Homecoming
I can safely say that I never thought that I’d be reaching back to memories from my senior homecoming for this blog. However, that’s pretty much where I remember this one starting. We were on one of our many long bus rides headed to a softball game. Us softball girls knew how to make those never ending rides fun though. As hard as it is to believe, talk of boys didn’t really dominate our conversation. This one day however, the hot topic was who everyone was going to the homecoming dance with.
The conversation had almost worked its way around the bus when someone volunteered that Amanda was being awfully quiet (if I remember right this was probably Katie), which was pretty rare. She eventually volunteered that there was this one guy she thought was cute, but she wasn’t sure if she was going to ask him to homecoming. At that point I think she really thought she was going to get away with not telling us a name. I can promise you that it never crossed any of our minds to let that happen though.
After a little prodding she volunteered a little more information and admitted that he was a freshman and finally threw Brandon’s name out there. In her head I think she expected all of our jaws to drop and talk her out of doing any such thing. Instead we did just the opposite and wholeheartedly endorsed him as the best candidate for her homecoming date.
At the wedding, Brandon’s best man, Tommy gave a speech essentially giving the he said version of this. It was hilarious to hear the shock that any senior girl, much less Amanda would want anything to do with a freshman guy. I think they probably had the jaw dropping reactions that Amanda expected out of us.
Eight years later it was astounding to see how beautifully their relationship had grown and completely changed and stayed the same, all at the same time.
They chose to see each other before the ceremony. These first sight images are always my favorites because they are just so honest.
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