Weddings

Weddings can be such beautiful events. This weekend I had the delightful pleasure of attending the wedding of my friends Vivian and Charles.  Understated elegance, simple, pure, and full of love. It was so much fun to celebrate their love and lives with so many of my friends and classmates. It's so beautiful to see two people looking together in the same direction, with the best of intentions and highest of hopes, surrounded by all their friends and family rooting and cheering them on.  It's wonderful to be part of so much love and celebration! So many emotions are wrapped into weddings. The parents and family beam with pride and disbelief at how old and mature their cherished son/daughter has become. Siblings take a reality check, that brother they used to fight with is now a husband... Friends see another side of a friend's life that too often is overlooked or not discussed. A young single woman feels the hope of a similar romance in the future, a seasoned married woman reminisces about her wedding, and the good and bad of her marriage. A gentleman in a budding relationship that is long distance mourns the days without his girl, secretly can't wait until they can be together for good. The older widowed man sheds a tear at the recent loss of his wife, and realizes that he lost the only dance partner who can dance the charleston with him... There are so many emotions running at weddings, no wonder they are so memorable and hold such meanings in all of our lives.