First Assignment (Thucydides)

Alex Schroeder
9/5/10
AP European History
My Parents’ Wedding, Thucydides style

There is official documentation of a marriage that took place December 3rd, 1992 between Laurie Kvech and Michael Schroeder. The marriage license was validated before the event commenced. Let it be on record that Laurie and Michael followed every tradition no matter how weird. They did not see each other the day before the wedding, the only opportunity was when Michael dropped off his daughter at Laurie’s house, but the potential “disaster” was averted. While Michael’s daughter Jessie was at Laurie’s house, they did whatever the average five year old would do at the time. Meanwhile, Michael took his son Erik up to the ballpark to hit some baseballs. Erik was, and still is very serious about his baseball. He played baseball up until he graduated from Harford Community College, and is now currently on his work’s softball team. He was very eager to teach his younger brother Alex how to play baseball. His first words when his younger brother was born were, “I can’t wait to teach him how to play baseball!”
The wedding was conducted on a Friday night by Father Joe at St. Agnes Catholic Church. Michael and Laurie wrote their own vows, and the ceremony was conducted as planned. They wrote their own vows, so there were certain things that had to be placed in the vows because the wedding was presided by the Catholic Church. After the wedding mass concluded, the reception began.
Michael’s brother Greg played at the reception, along with his close friend Dennis. It is widely known that Michael’s side of the family is musically talented. Mike’s father, brothers, nephews and sons each know how to play at least one instrument. One of the songs that they played was “Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton. It was the crowd favorite.
Next, the couple went on the honeymoon. They honeymoon was a month long cruse and trip to Mexico. They spent that time having fun on their first vacation as a married couple, going to the beach, and doing things people do on cruses. After the month was up, time to go back to reality.