capturing love

What is the beginning? Love.
What the course. Love still.
What the goal. The goal is Love.
On a happy hill
Is there nothing then but Love?
Search we sky or earth
There is nothing out of Love
Hath perpetual worth;
All things flag but only Love,
All things fail and flee;
There is nothing left but Love
Worthy you and me.

-C. Rossetti

Katie and Dan were married on a rainy day in April. The day started at home with a boatload of friends and family. The men watched the Cardinals opening day, Katie and her girls put on her dress in her old bedroom and Dan waited downstairs to see his bride. When it was time, she stood in the living room surrounded by the women in her family as they put the family veil – the same worn by so many other women in her family – and let it float around her shoulders.

Later I stood at the front of the church behind a pillar watching their faces as they were married. Watching the way Dan squeezed her fingers and she smiled at him out of the corner of her eye. The church was too full for me to even fit everyone into one frame and I felt lucky to be spending a day in the presence of so much love.

Katie and Dan, you are blessed