The story of their wedding day is simple in the very best of ways, the kind that feels solely about them. It is more about the way she looked at him than the way the centerpieces looked on the dinner tables. More about who the people were that witnessed their ceremony than how they were […]
Well friends, somehow we have arrived at the end of 2014. And though I know saying this is even more over used than the word “adorbs” these days – I really don’t know where this year went. Like REALLY. It seems that the older we get the faster the year goes, and I have barely gotten […]
They were married that day. And afterwards he held her close, his arm around her waist, in the very same place they had stood when he picked her up for prom so many years earlier. They laughed in the way high school sweethearts do, and he looked at her for the first time as a husband […]
They danced a dance they had done before. But all of those times that had come earlier were just practice, leading up to this time that the song played. This time they danced it as husband and wife. And as you watched him twirl her on the floor, and saw them silently counting the steps together, […]
Three sets of hands were held that day instead of two, and three hearts made a promise to love each other for always. And as they walked back up the aisle three smiles seemed to grow a little bit bigger, as that day their family of three was officially one . . . . _ _ […]
They laugh together. Like a lot. That day they smiled through laughs as they first saw each other, and they held hands a little tighter as they laughed throughout their ceremony. They laughed as they sat side-by-side at their reception, and as he spun her around the dance floor that night. And after this day, […]
She wore her mother’s lace and her grandmother’s collar. And even though she had made the dress on her own, it truly felt like it had also been made by so many others. Like it was not just made of material, but of all of the memories that each of the pieces had lived. And […]
Her father spoke the words that joined them and his father led everyone in a prayer. Their mother’s lit the candles that they would later combine into one flame, and her grandfather welcomed everyone to the ceremony. It is true that when they kissed that afternoon, their marriage became official. But it was so very […]