9616 Oates Dr, Sacramento, CA 95827, USA on the 5th of May, 2017, at 8:00pm
By Andrew P.
It was my wedding day...or rather, my wedding evening. My wife and I had changed out of our wedding clothes, and were back to being our usual slovenly selves: tank tops and T-shirts and shorts and flip-flops. (I had to buy the flip-flops at Wal-Mart on the way to the drive-in movie theater because I'd forgotten to bring them to the hotel where we were staying. We bought movie snacks, too.)
On May 5, 2017, the sun set at exactly 8:00 PM. That's when the movies began at the West Wind Drive-In movie theater on Oates Drive in Sacramento. My wife and I, having been married for roughly eight hours, celebrated our first day of marital bliss by sitting in a drive-in movie theater in Sacramento, eating gummy Lifesavers and Sweet Tarts and M&Ms, and watching the second "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie, like the complete comic-book nerds we are. It was pretty much like all our previous dates except now we were actually freaking married, and it was a truly magical moment. For our second wedding anniversary, I couldn't help but memorialize the moment with a star chart. Thanks, Under Lucky Stars!