Thank You for Being a Friend, Part 2: The Wedding

Yesterday, I shared with you all the story of the chaos that our family experienced mere days before Heidi and I were to be married.  I had started to think all sorts of self-pitying thoughts:  why me?  Why now? What if we have to cancel our wedding?  I realize these are not, in the universal scheme of things, terrible problems.  Many people have it much, much worse than we did.

But in my little world, at the time, things felt like they were falling apart.  We didn't want to cancel the ceremony because we wouldn't be able to afford to arrange it all again. We had rented tables, chairs, fancy port-a-potties with sinks, all sorts of things we needed to make this farm wedding perfect.  More importantly to me, some of my closest friends were coming from hundreds of miles away. They would have to cancel their travel plans at the last minute. Or maybe they would get here only to learn of the cancellation. 

Photo by Kaitlin Jarry Photography

Bliss.

Our family has been through a lot lately with my health and wedding preparations - and for awhile, we didn't even know if the wedding would happen as planned because I had emergency surgery.  We'll talk about this in a future post, but for now I wanted to thank all of you for hanging in there with me and I also wanted to share a photo from our wedding day - a photo I had started to doubt would be possible just 48 hours before.

Here's to love and perseverance!

Photo by Mini-Me Photography