Dancing on a cloud

While today, it's back to the real world, I've still got my head in the clouds.

Everything was perfect, better than I could have ever imagined. The days leading up the wedding were filled with lots of friends and family who gave supported me during my little nervous bouts and sang words of blessings when our day finally arrived and all of the blood, sweat and tears came together. (Tho, I really wasn't paying much attention, my eyes were focused on Max)

I wanted to post the readings from our wedding as I feel that they are very special and resonate with Max and I very deeply.

From "Gift From The Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh 


(Read by Krissy Reilly)

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. 

 The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.

"From the beginning of my life I have been look ing for your face, but today I have seen it. Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace o f the face that I was looking for. Today I have found you, and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday are sorry that they were not looking as I did. I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty, and wish to see you with a hundred eyes. My heart has burned with passion and has searched forever for this wondrous beauty that I now behold. I am ashamed to call this love human, and afraid of God to call it divine. Your fragrant breath, like the morning breeze, has come to the stillness of the garden. You have breathed new life into me. I have become your sunshine, and also your shadow. My soul is screaming in ecstasy. Every fiber of my being is in love with you. Your effulgence has lit a fire in my heart, and you have made radiant for me the earth and sky. My arrow of love has arrived at the target. I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer."
~ Rumi (Reading by Jeff Lindsey)

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The Tapestry House


Brian and Aileen with Alex


Cake Cutting and Max getting to wear my vale

Pics L - R: Me with my "Dude of Honor" Garrett & his GF Sara; Max & I with Friend & Photographer Extraordinaire, Jen; Me with Jeff & his Wife, my Duchess of Honor, Lynda


The masses give us a blessing of bubbles as we place our brick on the Tapestry House Grounds