actually, they're already married. they exchanged vows in June 2006 in their Boston, Massachusetts home wearing their 'pambahay slippers'. they candidly admit they had both forgotten to put shoes on for the civil ceremonies.
they'll be having the big church wedding on 9 March 2008.
i've known them a good 20 years now but, except for the occasional reunion, blog update and chat conversation, i'd pretty much lost touch with them since high school. writing their story has been a great way to catch up on their lives. the experience so far has been the most challenging, rewarding and personally satisfying writing i've yet done.
you can read the first part of their story in the About Us section of their wedding website, here:
http://arvinandclairetake2.weddingannouncer.com/
the first part of the story stands on its own but is grossly, criminally incomplete. i hope to rectify the matter in the second part. check back regularly for updates. there's so much left to tell; it's a story worth telling, though the writing itself hasn't been nearly as much fun as learning about the lives of my friends has been.
as Claire says in her rather generous introduction, this story is meant to be told as a tryptych: the current installment narrates the first part of their story with a bias towards Claire's prespective; the next will continue with a slant towards Arvin's; both parts i have decided to inform with my own, not entirely detached but just close enough to provide a (hopefully) noninvasive intermediary between the intimacy of their personal stories and the reader--ie, a way for the reader to access their story, to engage with it in a way that will speak intimately to them without desecrating the ultimately personal nature of the material.
that i will not be present to witness the conclusion of the tryptych, the Church Wedding, is regrettable for me, but seems nonetheless entirely appropriate: i was not there to witness the first two parts unfold either. these installments, the one you'll find through the link above and the one i'm currently working on, are meant to be mere preparation for that conclusion and readers fortunate enough to attend the wedding will ideally be able to engage with the story of Arvin & Claire without the need for my imagined intermediary.
right. enough of my hamhackery. congratulations, Arvin & Claire, and i don't just mean next week's wedding; as these things go, the life you've led so far has been inspired.
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