"Mawwaige. Mawwaige is what bwings us togetho today. Mawwaige, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam wifin a dweam. Wove, twue wove, will follow you fowever, and ever. . . so tweasure your wove. Have you the wing?"

I travelled down to Virginia Beach this weekend for the marriage of my friend, Sarah, to her wonderful fiance, Edric. Lamar was my lovely date (as has often been the case). Sarah was radiant and funny as hell...as always. After the pastor announced them husband and wife, she looked to all of us in attendance and gave a coy smile and shrugged her shoulders, as would a tickled 5-year-old to get a piece of their favorite candy, and the crowd laughed with delight. Leave it to Sarah to be a brilliant comedian at her own wedding.

And well, this is the first wedding I've been to for any of my friends, and I have two more this summer. Am I getting a little, shall we say, long in the tooth? :) What a great way to start the wedding celebrations off, though...a beautiful wedding with close family and friends, and two people very obviously devoted to each other in the simplest and purest sense. You always wonder if, after the hoopla of a wedding, a couple will be lost when they go back to the stillness of everyday life...sans wedding plans. Sarah and Edric? They will be just fine.