For the love of the game...

So Bub and I have found the song we'll walk down the aisle to. It is one both of us are excited about and just is perfect for our wedding ceremony.

To put a little perspective on it: He and I fell in love over baseball.

I was a newly found Red Sox fan and he is a long standing Yankees fan. When we met, we were living on opposite ends of the state and were introduced at a party through mutual friends. Neither of us were ready for a relationship after just getting out of long difficult relationships, so we started off emailing. He found out I was a Red Sox fan and started teasing me and we had a rivalry about baseball. By the end of that summer, I had moved in with him and became a Yankees fan by default. I had seen and heard so many Yankees games that I knew more about the Yankees team than I did the Red Sox - eh, I had only been a Red Sox fan because I started watching in 2004 when they won the World Series and broke The Babe's curse. So it was no big deal. ANYHOW, the other day Bub found a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Bernie Williams.

Bernie Williams began his career as a center fielder with the Yankees in 1985, staring off in the AA's and moving up to the majors in 1991. He played with them until 2007, when he "retired". Now he is starting his music career and has a beautiful rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZS-HpY3Dts

It makes my skin tingle when I listen. It has the perfect tempo and style for a wedding march. But the personal significance behind the song not only for Bub and I, but for my family is just a raw emotion.

And then we're exiting to "New York, New York" by Old Blue Eyes himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro7Uz4jEfmg


If my grandparents make it, it will be a great surprise for them. My grandpa grew up in Brooklyn and has always been a Dodgers fan.


We've all been raised to love baseball. Most of my aunts and uncles are Mariners


or Orioles fans.


I can remember that one of the first songs we were taught as kids was "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."

How could this be more perfect?