Our Day - as sung by Jack & Laurie Marti at Our Son's Wedding on Easter Sunday

My sister, Jody, just uploaded this video to Facebook and I had to share it with you all on You Tube, so I had to figure out how to download it off of FB. Fortunately, it wasn't that hard to figure out, because I just didn't want to wait for Jody to send it to me! You'll notice as we were singing it that Laurie started crying in the third verse and I kept having to switch back and forth from melody to harmony as Laurie bravely kept trying to sing between sobs! I was concentrating too hard on the new arrangement I had just figured out the night before (in order to sing it in a more comfortable key for Laurie and to add harmony) to be worried about crying myself. I saved that for when they played the father-daughter song later at the reception (but that's another story).

My son's name is Michael, and his new wife's name is Elisabeth (pronounced E-lees'-a-beth). They started courting a little over two years ago. When Michael first started seeing her he asked me if I thought he ought to ask her to marry him. I said I didn't see any reason why not except that they should wait at least two years in order to get over the infatuation stage and be fairly certain they were compatible and that it was the Lord's will for them to unite their lives. Well, amazingly enough, he heeded my counsel. He proposed only one day short of exactly two years after they started seeing each other, and the rest, as is said, is history!

Laurie and I sang this song to each other at our own wedding thirty years ago last August. Michael & Elisabeth both asked us especially to sing this for their wedding, Laurie was a little fearful to try because it's not so easy to sing it as high as we used to, and I didn't know how to play it in another key. And then a couple of days before the wedding, Laurie decided that I should sing harmony! Now I really had to learn how to play it in a lower key because it was two high for me to sing harmony in the key of C. So we ended up singing it in G# (or G capo 1 if you like) in a lower register, which meant I had to learn a whole new chord progression when I've been playing it in the other key for thirty plus years! With my fifty-two year old brain, it was all I could do! Anyway, it turned out pretty well I thought... What do you think?

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[kdl940]

Enjoyed watching this video. Lois Autoharpist/The Gospel & Folk Weather Girls

[guitmartiman]

Thanks, Lois! Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for stopping by. :o)

[LiftAloft]

beautiful! and congrats to the marti family... :) God bless!

[guitmartiman]

Thank you!

[Jeannelle1974]

Beautiful, must have been very touching for your son to have his parents singing this especially for him and his wife. God bless you!

[NewEarthWellness]

Pretty song.

[Studier101]

Some friends of ours just got married, so this song is especially precious to me (although they did not sing it then).

[nagisuiwater]

wonderful time

wonderful live performance

[melioped]

May our Lord Jesus Christ bless this marriage for ever and ever and may God bless you and keep you and your entire family and friends. With my love and prayers melioped Romans 1 :16

(beautiful;)

[dabiribd]

Awesome

[Denverbuzz]

Ouch. lol.

[guitmartiman]

More than three times as expensive as when I got married 30 years ago!