Wedding. Part 3: The Ceremony.
I was so nervous about the ceremony. I was shaking and my stomach felt really butterflyish – I could barely eat anything for lunch. It would be the first time seeing Funnel all day. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to control my emotions. I was worried about seeing my dad cry. I was scared I would mess up.
But then when I first saw my Funnel as I turned the corner and Canon in D was playing, it was this rush of feeling so excited and so lucky and everything felt right and perfect. He looked so handsome, grinning at me and as I got closer, I could see that he was tearing up. I was smiling through my tears.
What I think broke the nervousness for us was that as my dad and I were standing up at the front of the church and Roger was doing the opening prayer, I looked down and realized that the handkerchief that I had stuffed down my dress was poking out. I was so mortified because it had been like that my whole walk down the aisle, but it was just so funny that I couldn’t stop laughing. And the bridal party totally saw it too. Some of the guests said that they could see my shoulders shaking and thought I was sobbing or something.
Anyway, the ceremony flew by so fast standing up there and I really loved everything about it. The music was beautiful, my Uncle Lloyd did a really good reading of the 1 Corinthians passage on love, Roger gave a nice message about marriage and even mentioned “The Happy Couple” (a gyro meal that Funnel and I split after we first met and were just friends), I liked the vows that we had put together (more tears), we gave roses to our grandparents and lit a unity candle.
This day was more than I could have hoped for.
taken by Adam Langdon.
Taken by Adam Langdon
taken by Adam Langdon.
All photos by “In His Image” studios unless otherwise noted.
March 18th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
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