By Anna D’Ulisse, April 7, 2019 — The day we got married was such a beautiful day. July 31st was the day. My veil was very long and beautiful. The church I got married in was the same church that I was baptized in an had my communion in. My husband promised me that on our wedding day he would bring both of our families up to the mountains for a beautiful wedding. We went on a beautiful 15-day honeymoon and we visited Capri, Amalfi, Venezia, Rome, and Napoli. The day of my wedding, there was a car waiting at the church for me. From my parents’ house which was downtown, I locked arms with my father, and we walked through the whole town, all the way to the top of the town where the church was. The walk took about half an hour. We passed throughout my small town, throughout the people I grew up with. After the procession, we went to a beautiful restaurant in the mountains and from there we left for our honeymoon.
I had to wait for my husband to come back to Italy for us to get married. My husband left to go to America to get citizen papers and money so that he could come back to Italy and bring me back to the United States with some money and a solid start. Once he came back, we got married and then after our honeymoon, we took our trip to the United States. I Waited for my husband for 5 years so that he could come back with his papers. In 1971, we went to America.