As Matthew would say...Punce pupon a time...
In 1986, there was a prince who was in Wildwood, NJ with friends. There was a princess who was also down there with friends from PA and happened to be staying in the same hotel. One night the Prince saw this beautiful maiden going out on a date with another Prince she met on the beach that day. He called her over to him to see if he could entice her with his blue eyes. It worked. The Princess couldn't wait for her dark haired brown eyed lobster treating guy to bring her back to her hotel, so she could see that other prince again....He was having a "ball" in his hotel room with "fine drinks" AKA...a party with lots of beer with everyone and anyone that wanted to come.
Well, another princess got to him first that night and so the beautiful maiden went back to her room and sulked all night long.
The next day, the beautiful princess' hand maiden (also known as best friend K) said Hey! The heck with that guy! Let's go down to the beach...there's a million other princes to choose from.
We went down to the beach that was as packed as sardines and who do we set up our beach towel next to, but that same blue eyed prince charming from the night before. He was with his friends. The beautiful Princess and him started talking, playing Frisbee and just really hit it off.
It was the most romantic moment of my life. This princess grew up watching fairy tales and musicals and old movies with happy endings and this prince from a far away land who was 7 years older than her, with the most mesmerizing blue eyes really went right to her young 18 year old heart. That night, they walked on the beach with his jeans cuffed and she being an ankle princess (that's right! And I'm Proud!), loved his ankles as he walked along the night time surf on the sand with her that night. She listened to him with his funny accent. He had a hard time saying "r's"....come to think of it he still does. Finally at that moment, they sat up in this lifeguard chair and had their first kiss with the black ocean in front of them and the lights and sounds of the boardwalk behind them. This prince was very charming, sincere and light hearted and he had a wonderful sense of humor. He was also very worldly to the princess. He had just got back from Aruba, was in NJ, lived in Boston and was thinking of going to Europe. He was so important and yet so loving and gentle, that the princess was mesmerized from that moment on.
They only spent 3 days together before both of their vacations were over and they would leave each other. The princess never cried so hard in her life. She lived in a far away place with mountains and this prince being so much older than her and more worldly would surely forget all about her and she would never see him ever again. When she got back to her castle, the King asked her why she was so distraught. She couldn't even talk about the prince she met without breaking down crying, to even explain to her father about the wonderful moment she had. He was concerned because he thought something more terrible had happened. It wasn't until 3 days after returning home, when the princess got in the mail a postcard from her prince. It was a picture of Boston that said how much he enjoyed meeting me...and that he had a super dooper looper time! And how he missed me already and that whenever he heard the song "Take My Breath Away" he would think of me. It had been playing from my Top Gun Soundtrack cassette the whole time together.
That prince wanted the princess to come and visit him in the big city, but the king disapproved of his age and his worldly ways and said "If that prince wants to see you, he has to come here first to meet me, before you would go to see him".
Well, 4 years later, after many letters and birthday cards and phone calls from the prince, the princess finally said "Hey King! I'm over 21!!, I'm going to the far away land of Boston!!"
Story for another day of how I got up here, it would ruin the fairytaleness of my story.
When the princess and the prince saw each other for the first time at the Greyhound Station in Boston after 4 years, we immediately picked right up where we had left off. The attraction between us was unbelievable. He decided instead of staying at his castle, we would rent a hotel room to mix with the peasants and he would show me around Boston. He was so excited to show her everything from Fanuill Hall to Hard Rock, to Government Center to the John Hancock Building...we did it all and we only had a weekend before the princess had to return to her father, The King.
The Princess also had a run in with a former (although she wasn't aware she was a former) princess that weekend at a Blues Bar. That princess pushed the prince off a bar stool after punching him. It just made the weekend between the prince and princess more exciting like fugitives. She just wanted to protect him all the more from that other horrible punching princess and the rest of the world that would dare to harm or hurt her wonderful new man.
So, a few weeks later, she came up for another weekend and then he came to PA with his brother for a weekend to meet the king. That's when he told her that he loved her and that he wanted her to move up there with him. That he knew that she loved Boston and him too and that they could be together . So with out any further courting involved, the princess told the king that - (sigh) she would be leaving to go to this new world. He was happy for her as long as she was happy, but when the prince showed up on June 30, 1990 with his other brother and a truck, he wasn't letting her go that easy. The prince assured him, to not worry dear King that "I will take good care of her for you". The King looked at the princess in her black spandex tight shorts and her white tank top and said "If He Isn't, you just let me know and I'll find a truck somehow to come and get you".
They lived together for 5 years before getting married in 1995 in a beautiful ceremony in February with 70 degree weather on a sunny day, a church where President Kennedy was baptized in Brookline and a reception on the top floor of a building overlooking the Charles River in Boston at sunset. Her maidens' wore red velvet with muffs instead of flowers while the brides men and the Prince wore morning coats. They had a trolley for there guests to escort them around Boston to and from the reception and Church. The rehearsal dinner was at The Bull & Finch (above Cheers on Boston Common). They had the most beautiful honeymoon in Cancun and now make there home on a lake in MA.....with the most beautiful prince Charming walking in his dad's footsteps and his mom's hugs and kisses.
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