{"id":501,"date":"2019-01-15T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aletatrigg.com\/just-married\/?page_id=501"},"modified":"2019-01-17T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T16:19:26","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aletatrigg.com\/just-married\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row rt_row_background_width=”default” rt_row_style=”default-style” rt_row_borders=”” rt_row_paddings=”true” rt_bg_image=”650″ rt_bg_effect=”classic” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”cover” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll” rt_bg_video_format=”self-hosted”][vc_column rt_wrp_col_paddings=”false” rt_border_top=”” rt_border_bottom=”” rt_border_left=”” rt_border_right=”” rt_border_top_mobile=”” rt_border_bottom_mobile=”” rt_border_left_mobile=”” rt_border_right_mobile=”” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”auto auto” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row rt_row_background_width=”default” rt_row_style=”default-style” rt_row_borders=”” rt_row_paddings=”true” rt_bg_effect=”classic” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”cover” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll” rt_bg_video_format=”self-hosted” rt_bg_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column rt_wrp_col_paddings=”false” rt_border_top=”” rt_border_bottom=”” rt_border_left=”” rt_border_right=”” rt_border_top_mobile=”” rt_border_bottom_mobile=”” rt_border_left_mobile=”” rt_border_right_mobile=”” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”auto auto” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll”][vc_single_image image=”642″ img_size=”300×70″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row rt_row_background_width=”default” rt_row_style=”default-style” rt_row_borders=”” rt_row_paddings=”true” rt_bg_effect=”classic” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”cover” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll” rt_bg_video_format=”self-hosted” rt_bg_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ rt_wrp_col_paddings=”false” rt_border_top=”” rt_border_bottom=”” rt_border_left=”” rt_border_right=”” rt_border_top_mobile=”” rt_border_bottom_mobile=”” rt_border_left_mobile=”” rt_border_right_mobile=”” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”auto auto” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll”][vc_column_text]\n

Aleta Maria Trigg
\n<\/strong>9.14.65
\nVirgo<\/p>\n

Favorite Place on Earth:<\/strong> Paris, France.
\nFavorite Food:<\/strong> Any combo of starch, cheese and bacon.\u00a0 Runner-up: Shrimp and Garlic Crab.
\nFavorite Pastime:<\/strong> Travel.\u00a0 International and Domestic. I want to see it all.
\nFavorite Color:<\/strong> Black.\u00a0 Runner-up: Lime Green.
\nFavorite Teams:<\/strong> Raiders (may give them up after the move and switch to the Saints for the family) + Lakers (I lived 3 blocks from the Forum and walked just up the street to see all the 80s celebration ceremonies).
\nMy dream for our future:<\/strong> We retire in 2027, move to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and open a dairy farm. Goats, sheep, llama, dogs and the beach. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Brief Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Born in Los Angeles, grew up in Inglewood.\u00a0 Married+Divorced.\u00a0 Moved to Oakland in 2000.\u00a0 Finally lived alone for the first time at 37! Can you believe it?\u00a0 I was scared for the first 6 months but after that never looked back.\u00a0 Bought my first house in the suburbs in 2008 and upgraded in 2016, right before I met Jimmy.\u00a0 Discovered my love of travel about 10 years ago.\u00a0 My goal is to see all 50 states and all 7 continents.\u00a0 I went on my dream vacation in 2015, spending a month in Europe for my 50th birthday, went back again in 2016, and again in 2018.\u00a0 Jimmy shares my love of travel so we’ll be on the road and in the sky from now on.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ rt_wrp_col_paddings=”false” rt_border_top=”” rt_border_bottom=”” rt_border_left=”” rt_border_right=”” rt_border_top_mobile=”” rt_border_bottom_mobile=”” rt_border_left_mobile=”” rt_border_right_mobile=”” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”auto auto” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll”][vc_column_text]\n

Jimmy Louis Pittman<\/strong>
\n8.5.65
\nLeo<\/p>\n

Favorite Place on Earth:<\/strong>\u00a0I don’t have one.
\nFavorite Food:<\/strong> Crab.\u00a0 Runner-up: Gumbo, All you can eat Casino Buffet.
\nFavorite Pastime:<\/strong>\u00a0Watching the game.
\nFavorite Color:<\/strong> Purple.
\nFavorite Teams:<\/strong> Saints + Warriors.
\nMy dream for our future:<\/strong> What she said.<\/p>\n

Brief Bio:<\/strong> Born and raised in Biloxi, MS.\u00a0 Spent 3 years in the Navy right after high school. I was stationed at the Alameda Naval Station in Northern California. Traveled the world.\u00a0 I have visited 5 continents (I’m only missing South America and Antarctica – I may see these with Aleta).\u00a0 I have also visited 49 states (I drove through the 48 continuous states as a long-haul truck driver and I visited Hawaii while in the Navy).\u00a0 We plan to take an Alaskan cruise so I can cross the 50th off the list.\u00a0Aleta was much impressed with this information. Married+Divorced.\u00a0 I have lived in Mississippi, California and Nevada, going back and forth between MS and CA multiple times.\u00a0 I made it through Katrina.\u00a0 The gulf was destroyed and doesn’t look the same now but I was fortunate that nothing of mine was badly damaged.\u00a0 I moved back to Oakland after that.\u00a0 I met Aleta and have been on a roller coaster of a time ever since.\u00a0 I was at first amused by her retirement plans but she’s serious and I’m all in.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row rt_row_background_width=”default” rt_row_style=”default-style” rt_row_borders=”” rt_row_paddings=”true” rt_bg_effect=”classic” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”cover” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll” rt_bg_video_format=”self-hosted” rt_bg_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column rt_wrp_col_paddings=”false” rt_border_top=”” rt_border_bottom=”” rt_border_left=”” rt_border_right=”” rt_border_top_mobile=”” rt_border_bottom_mobile=”” rt_border_left_mobile=”” rt_border_right_mobile=”” rt_bg_image_repeat=”repeat” rt_bg_size=”auto auto” rt_bg_position=”right top” rt_bg_attachment=”scroll”]\t \n\t\t

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\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\t25<\/span>\n\t\t\tAugust<\/span>\n\t\t\t2016<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t

Met<\/h4>

We met downtown Oakland during our respective lunch breaks.\u00a0 We had our first date the next Tuesday and our second date on Saturday.\u00a0 By the time he dropped me off at home we were an item and have been together ever since.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t \n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\t25<\/span>\n\t\t\tAugust<\/span>\n\t\t\t2017<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t

Engaged<\/h4>

By the time a year was upon us, we had met each other’s family, traveled and made it through a major health scare.\u00a0 We knew we’d found our second chance at love so we took it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t \n\t\t

\n\t\t\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\t23<\/span>\n\t\t\tDecember<\/span>\n\t\t\t2018<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t

Wedding Planning (Aleta)<\/h4>

Our original wedding date was scheduled for August 25, 2018 making a nice trifecta.\u00a0 Since it was both our second marriages I struggled with the size of the wedding, where to have it, etc.\u00a0 Life happened and the date came and went.\u00a0 I hadn’t given up but I just wasn’t in a rush.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to December 2018.\u00a0 I’d gone to Paris for the Christmas season.\u00a0 Jimmy’s job wouldn’t let him off and everyone I asked to accompany me said no, so I went alone.\u00a0 I had the most fabulous time and when I returned home, it hit me that I loved my life and wanted it to evolve from here.<\/p>\n

I woke Jimmy up and told him we were getting married on January 1st.\u00a0 I called my pastor, Dr R. Mario Howell, and asked him if he was free.\u00a0 He said yes and I started planning.<\/p>\n

I had 9 days to make this special.\u00a0 After the previous year deliberating on the size of event, the venue, guest list and all the other stuff that goes into wedding planning I was wore out.\u00a0 I’d planned a big white wedding before with a 20 person wedding party and 7 pre-wedding events.\u00a0 I wanted no parts of that again.\u00a0 His family lives in Mississippi and my family lives in Los Angeles.\u00a0 It was too short a notice for them to come and add to that that my mom wouldn’t have been able to make it as she was scheduled for surgery in January.\u00a0 We decided on no guests.<\/p>\n

My first order was getting a dress.\u00a0 I knew I wanted floor length and silver. I was hoping I’d find it.\u00a0 I parked in front of Macy’s on Christmas eve at 6:30 am waiting for them to open. I walked in and in one short hour had a silver sequin dress (from the clearance rack!) and sparkly heels to match.\u00a0 I didn’t like sleeves on the dress so I headed to the fabric store and picked up some mesh fabric and sequin beads. I removed the originals and replaced them with new ones.\u00a0 I hand beaded the new sleeves and I was ready to go.\u00a0 Jimmy\u00a0rented a tux with accessories to match my dress.<\/p>\n

Over the next week, I visited a few store picked up a few decorating odds and ends.\u00a0 I’m an unofficial event planner so I had most everything on hand already.\u00a0 I rearranged the living room, decorated one wall to resemble a wedding chapel and one wall to resemble the wedding table.<\/p>\n

On New Year’s Eve, we went picked up the groceries and I picked up the flowers the morning of the wedding.<\/p>\n

On January 1, I spent the day cooking. I made his and my favorite dinner, crab stuffed deviled eggs, garlic crab, garlic shrimp, asparagus, and rice pilaf.\u00a0 I also made his favorite cake, butter cake with chocolate icing for dessert.<\/p>\n

I added the last minute touches, got dressed and we were set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t \n\t\t

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Married<\/h4>

There were 5 people present.\u00a0 Us, our pastor and first lady and the professional photographer I hired.\u00a0 The photographer got all the staged shots before they arrived at 8 pm.\u00a0 Pastor Howell married us in a sweet and short 5 minute ceremony (see the video) and afterward the four of us had dinner and toasted with Sparkling Fuji Apple.<\/p>\n

It was perfect.<\/p>\n

As of this writing, it’s been 16 days and have never been happier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n

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