One step aside from you

Here I am.  Happily married for what is now 9 days.  D leaves the city on Thursday evening, when once again the count down begins.  This time, it will be about 75 days.  What I am told is not to count but rather suggest to my less than co-operating heart that in fact each day is one less. It will be the last count down before we are finally together in the same postal code for good.

Our wedding day was everything and more than what the two of us could have imagined.  We have been blessed with so many wonderful people around us and as one family member wrote in his card to us, friends became family and family became friends.

For those of you who follow the blog, the dress was well received.  The bouquet was perfect, the shawl extraordinary and the shoes…. well the shoes were the hit!  Even better was a beautiful day with all.

My fondest memory is seeing D waiting for me at the front of the church.  All the concerns that he would change his mind melted away in that moment.  Once again we learned how much we think alike with the reading of our vows, discovering that it was the same promise but different words.  Standing in front, when the other needs to be shielded, behind when the other needs to shine and standing together, one step aside, we are extraordinary.

Photos: Lindsay Sullivan

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