Wedding of Sallie Goetsch and Stefan (Stjepan) Didak, September 13, 2011

Yes, the World’s Longest Engagement is finally over. Stefan and I were married September 13th at approximately 10 AM at the County Clerk’s office in Martinez, California. We had been engaged since April 2, 1995. We started filing paperwork for our fiancé visa in August, 2010. (And now that we’re married, there’s more paperwork to file for the Adjustment of Status, work permit, etc.)

The ceremony was actually rather touching, a secularized version of the familiar vows from the Book of Common Prayer. Stefan attempted to promise “for richer and still richer,” but though we’d all like that, the Deputy Commissioner wasn’t having it.

Our one wedding photo was taken by our one witness, my former housemate, with my Nikon P100. Stefan’s Big Lenses are still in Holland, awaiting his green card and the trip back to retrieve his office.