Wedding Day Recap: The Ceremony

A while back I wrote about our ceremony and how we wanted to keep it simple.  We both wanted to get married in the Catholic Church where my parents were married and where I was baptized.  There were a few things that prevented us from getting married there.  In the end, or ceremony and reception being in the same place was a great thing and I wouldn’t have changed a thing about the day.

So J and I both hugged my parents, we stood there and held hands, and I felt so calm and happy.  I don’t know if it’s that my emotions were finally in check or that I was COMPLETELY distracted by the fact that the sun was blazing down on my face.

Cool picture... HOT SUN!!!

If there would have been a way for me to telepathically communicate with our reverend that I wanted her to make it quick, I would have.  Unfortunately, I don’t especially love most of our ceremony pictures, not because of our photographers (who are awesome), but because I’m squinting in a lot of them and my veil is in all different sorts of directions.

We got to the vows and there were no tears, only excitement and happiness.  The two readings that we put in the ceremony were TORTURE… it’s a good thing I knew what she was saying because I certainly wasn’t listening… I was too busy sweating.

And then it was here… the moment I’d been waiting for… THE KISS!!!

HOORAY… WE’RE OFFICIALLY MARRIED.  Like I said, it was 19 months in the making… well, it was actually it was a little over 3 years in the making.  It had been a little over 3 years since I met him, since I spent hours on the phone with him, since I fell in love with him and since I knew that one day we’d be here.  

What an amazing feeling…

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