But herein lies the spelling error of all time:
Following my last blog post Donovan and I were, again, admiring the inscription on our wedding bands. Picture us snuggled up on the couch, smiling as we took off our rings. We took a closer look...and then we noticed...(now sitting up straight with a what the hooties? expression)...
Our rings do NOT read: "Whither thou goest, I will go."
Instead, the inscription reads: "Wither thou goest, I will go."
whither (adverb): to what place, situation, position, degree or end
wither (verb): to become dry and sapless or: to lose vitality, force, or freshness
How did it take us 13 years to realize this? Um...because I can't spell. And obviously our ring maker can't either. We then noticed that the program from our wedding ceremony has the same typo. sweet. Guess the folks at the printing place didn't notice. Or didn't care. Or thought it was hilarious and had a good laugh at our expense. I wouldn't have expected our guests on our wedding day to point it out, but really-- oh where oh where were the editors??
Ahhhhhh yes--my husband is an editor.
I would like to take this opportunity to note that he was a copy editor at the time of our wedding and looked for misspellings for a living (lest I entirely blame myself for this mega blooper). And he was entirely involved in the designing of our rings. At least our Ketubah hanging above our bed is in Hebrew, so I'm going to ignorantly assume that there is no issue. No withering of the religious contract singed before God--whew.
We had a good laugh, put the rings back on and have decided to keep the rings just as they are. If we're going to wither, we'd at least like to do it together.
