Weddingbee Blog

I’m not trying to bore you with a thousand photos of the ceremony: I really am trying to pare it down to pictures that will show something somewhat helpful to other brides (and even so, I wasn’t successful enough to get them all in one post: my apologies). But here’s what I want to share. For starters, that there will be a moment right before walking down the aisle where you will be so happy/excited/nervous, you won’t realize, until you see the pictures, that your father looked at you this tenderly:

Or that’s it okay to take a moment right before walking down the aisle to really take in the look on your groom’s face (or bride’s) as you walked toward him (her). Or that the sky was really that blue:

And though some think it old-fashioned or patriarchal or whatever, there’s still something to be said about that moment when you’re given away by your father, or your mother, a brother, even yourself — it doesn’t even matter by whom — because that moment when you reach the end of the aisle really just means things are about to get good…

…and you realize you’re getting married in the company of all the people whom you love and who love you and who get to see the way the person you love looks at you:

Then someone, maybe your sister, will read a poem so beautifully that it will make you go into what Oprah likes to call the ugly cry:

I love a good party, but for me, it’s all about the ceremony.