Dedicated to my brother and his wife, who are no longer with us now.

There is a long moment in time as a you, the groom, waits at the alter. This moment seems to be suspended in time. It floats there before him, making him dizzy with anticipation. He is so much in love and on this day, the day they will promise to be together forever, he has only caught glimpses of her. Then suddenly, the moment is broken as she appears at the back of the chapel, holding her proud and beaming father’s arm. She begins to glide over the flower petals toward him and he catches his breathe, he has to because the angelic way she appears in her wedding dress has taken his breathe away.

Your near future Father-in-law gives you a last look that says you had better not hurt his daughter but you do not notice, because you are still enraptured by her beauty, her confidence, her elegant radiance. Suddenly, those decisions that seemed so important just a few weeks before, like whether to get wedding favors or unique wedding favors, are meaningless. They are so far away from you now, like a distant memory, wisping away in a breeze, that you barely remember them.

She is here now and the guests begin to breathe again. Another magical moment appears within you as you reach out to take her hand, so small compared to yours. It reminds you of your promise to keep her safe and secure from all the evil this world has too offer. Then the preacher starts to speak and the moments begin to fly. He speaks of the love that you and your bride profess to have for one another but you cannot hear him. Being this close to her has taken the world and diminished it into tiny fragments of what might be reality or just an old memory, lost in time.

Suddenly, something changes, what has been five minutes seemed like five seconds to you. So caught up in the beauty that is your imminent wife that it is time to say I do. You say it…, you say it with such conviction that it is truth incarnate and everyone in the room knows instantly that you really do. You have just broken the heart of every man in the room.

As the preacher says I now pronounce you, the ball of tense excitement and anxiousness that has been building in your stomach leaps into your heart and the knowledge that she is yours, to love and to hold forever and a day takes you in its tender grasp and makes you feel more alive than you have ever felt in your life. You now realize the scope and magnitude of your love for her and nothing, nothing can ever change that. It is a fact that now occupies space in the universe. Words cannot express how grateful you are to see that love mirrored in her eyes.

If there is one thing that you know without a doubt, it is that you are happier now than you ever have been and that you think it is ever possible to be. You do not realize now, nor can you realize the joy of your son or daughters first breath until it actually happens and somewhere, deep inside your heart, there is a tiny space there, empty now but ready to be filled and to grow for that moment. You can sense this now but only vaguely and fleetingly, like an unrealized instinct.

Brother, you are married and I am so glad I was there to witness it.

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