I remember our wedding fondly. We had so much fun planning and putting little touches of ourselves into it. Instead of clinking glasses to get us to kiss we made people write us a haiku, and we still have them all. When we came into the reception the song we played was “Somebody’s Getting Married” from The Muppets Take Manhattan. It was totally us, right down to me bawling down the aisle. (“Oh dear,” said the woman who was marrying us when she saw me coming. “Does anyone have a tissue?” Unfortunately she was mic’d and you can hear it on our wedding video…)
All that crying evidently made something in me decide we needed a moment of levity. I started to recite my vows, which we wrote ourselves, and got to this line: “I promise to love you the way you are.”
And I laughed.
I’d apologize to my husband, but he knows exactly why I laughed. He is 100% his own person, right down to his goofy sense of humour (which is what I was thinking about in that moment), and I’d never try to change him.
It was a good moment.
We have a lot of totally amazing photos from our wedding but because of that moment, when prompted to pick my favourite wedding picture, I chose this one:
That ability to laugh got us back up the aisle (no tissue required) and played a big part in where we are today. At the end of the month we’re celebrating our 7th anniversary, and we’ve only just begun.
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