We went to the dreamiest wedding on Saturday evening.
I love weddings.
I always cry (which is one of the things I love)
and I get both nostalgic and happily expectant at the same time.
I especially adore outdoor weddings.
I had one, so I’m biased, but I think there’s nothing so conducive to a big, beautiful, expansive marriage as gathering all of a couples’ friends and families together with the bugs and birds and wind and sky, in recognition and celebration. Really, I think it’s a visceral way to say, "Yes, we’re ready for everything, bring it in and on…"
And this is never truer than when rain taunts (which, as a rule, it does).
You’ve planned an outdoor wedding and rain taunts and you have to be both flexible and hopeful,
both prepared and willing to be surprised.
And not to oversimplify life or marriage or anything, but what else is there?
For this wedding, all the rain (and threatened rain) of last week went away.
The sun came out, the fields dried up, the hoop house at the farm was laid with long, simple tables
and strung with tiny white lights.
Charley and Sarah were married.
Happiness and mazel tov.
Haiku 24
4/24/2010
crops in sunset fields
bride and groom under chuppah
what fine promises
I love all of your posts today, but I found this one especially touching. My husband and I celebrate our fourth anniversary next month, and I loved that the rain held off on our wedding day so that we could spend part of the celebration outside. Going to weddings of family and friends feels like even more of a treat, now, because each one provides a glimpse at new love and reminds me of the promises made on my own wedding day, too, and how much we still have to look forward to. Thank you so much for sharing!
Sigh. Love this post. The image of long, simple tables and white lights feels familiar and comforting. What a beautiful wedding!
P.S. People in Hawai’i love outdoor weddings — a little rain is considered a blessing.
tanita says 🙂
:winces with embarrassment:
Okay, so my poetry Friday offering was about how much I hate weddings… but this poem is quite lovely…
I love weddings, too
I think it’s because I’m happily married and I always want that for my friends. I cry at them all–whether or not I know the people that well or not. There’s just something so hopeful about a wedding.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I have started a new one of daily meditations on joy –I’m trying to reclaim mine. Maybe it’s something that might help you in this time when everything else seems so arbitrary and out of your control? http://listening-for-a-change.blogspot.com/
I am keeping your family in my thoughts and prayers and wrappy y’all up in a coat of blessings.
Re: I love weddings, too
Dang it. I forgot to sign in. It’s me again: Barb Cooper.
Elaine M.
Outdoor weddings are lovely. I think I’ve only been to one in my lifetime though. My daughter’s getting married this summer…in a church. Her reception will also be indoors–at one of her favorite places…the same place where Grace Lin had her wedding and reception.