True Love
August 6, 2008 – 4:10 pmI had the honor of attending one of my closest friend’s wedding in Los Angeles this past weekend. It was an absolute beautiful experience, and being that it was the first wedding I have ever been too, I won’t soon forget it.
I hadn’t seen my friend in over three years, and the first time I met his soon to be wife was the evening before the rehearsal dinner. Exactly two days before the wedding! Rather then getting into how much I liked her (which of course I did), or how wonderful it was to see my friend after such a long absence (indeed it was), I would like to describe what I witnessed at 6:00 PM on Sunday, August 3, 2008.
Love. Love in its most pure and magical and moving form. That was what I saw reflected in the bride’s eyes as the marriage ceremony progressed. I can’t speak for her exact emotions or what she thinking at the time, but from my vantage point she was the picture of complete happiness and contentment in binding herself for all eternity to her groom.
Then I realized the emotion that I was feeling, and it was also one of complete happiness. A rich and full happiness that my friend had found his other. That he had found someone glowing from every inch of her face simply because he was the one standing opposite her on this day.
Though I am an emotional individual (to say the least), I am certainly not a big crier. In this instant, though, I had to literally fight back the drops forming in my eyes because it’s not every day that you see love so plainly and simply expressed on someone’s face. What an incredible reminder of the most powerful of all human emotions.
