SJM is not a thing of the past but smarken will be. I’m getting married! Meet the soon to be smerchant. It’s kinda like the Smurfs but less blue. Mac Merchant, my fiancé, proposed on Christmas Eve with a fabulous song and a beautiful ring.
Before getting on one knee, Mac sang “Marry Me a Little” from the show Company with music by Stephen Sondheim. This show has carried great sentimentality for us since one of our first dates when we watched the revival via Netflix. Mac transposed and sang “Being Alive” last year for my birthday, and I wrote a poem also based on this song. A 1971 Tony winner captures the joys, nerves, hopes, disappointments, and grateful aspects of marriage in a way that’s timeless. Perhaps this show started a theme for us…oldie but goodie.
The engagement ring also falls into that category though under a much more elegant a title. Something like “class and style never fade.” Mr. Quire, Mac’s great-grandfather and namesake, gave his wife two gorgeous gifts: a marriage of 55 years and her ring. While elegant and sheik, it bursts with light, life, love and celebration that seemed to characterize their marriage, the life of Mac’s paternal grandmother, Nana, who received the ring after her mother’s passing, and now us. Even after over 100 years the ring is in great shape…though a little big. I am ever grateful to be a part of this special legacy of long and joy-filled marriages.
So if vintage is the new trend, I’m ready. I’ve got my show, my ring, and most important, my man.
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