I remember the day we got married.<\/p>\n
It didn’t snow like we had hoped so we could get our wedding rings for free, but it was cold regardless.<\/p>\n
I got the question that so many grooms get before the altar.<\/p>\n
“So are you nervous?” My brother asked.<\/p>\n
Out of so many years playing a role, out of so many days putting on a show, this of all felt the most natural.<\/p>\n
I joked as I usually do, but this time there were no jokes, this one moment in time was void of a punch line.<\/p>\n
I was ready.<\/p>\n
I was ready to jump for her without worrying if there was any safety bet beneath.<\/p>\n
She was my safety net, my life line, and it mattered not if I were to fall a thousand feet, she would be there.<\/p>\n
Smile at the ready, telling me without a whisper “It’s okay to fall.”<\/p>\n
It wasn’t a big wedding, no extravagant entrance, no pomp and ceremony.<\/p>\n
Just two people so in love that the only thing they cared about was the end result.<\/p>\n
The moment when our first kiss as man and wife would be the last first kiss we’d ever take.<\/p>\n
Of course you can’t have a wedding without something to commit to memory.<\/p>\n
I dropped the ring.<\/p>\n
Cursing the nail lady that did my wife’s nails, the photographer captured the whole thing in one shot.<\/p>\n
I got it on the second try, but not without a red flushed face.<\/p>\n
Nearly four years have gone by, each day its own new adventure and I can’t wait for the others.<\/p>\n
Of all the plastic personalities and man made problems in this world, above all else, you and I will be one of the few purely natural.<\/p>\n
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