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I don’t like looking at my wedding photos. There, I said it. It’s not that they aren’t beautiful, objectively they are. Rather, it’s that the story they tell is incomplete.

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You’ve set a standard few can compare to. But I know the man standing before the two of us (when that day comes) will uphold the values you have set for me and the example you’ve led my entire life.

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It’s not about the venue or the food. It’s not about the dress or the aisle. More than anything, to love and to be loved, I think it’s magical enough.

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“I was the maid of honor and as I gave my toast I had a massive brain fart and called the groom by the bride’s ex’s name…”

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Our entire lives
spent testing formulas,
less trial more error,
figuring out how
to make people stay

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I will cry during my toast – I apologize in advance for ruining your makeup.

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Society continuously portrays a wedding as just that: a wedding. A one-day ordeal filled with pretty dresses and champagne toasts that ends after the reception, rather than the first day of the rest of your life with your spouse.