Our wedding was an absolute, amazing, constant outpouring of love and joy. I have never felt such an intensity of celebration in my life.


That whole "best day of my life thing"? It's about the joy. It's phenomenal.



There was joy in the eyes of my new husband. Joy in the arms as our family and friends wrapped their arms around us over and over again. Joy in the laughter, and joy intertwined in the bittersweet moments. "Joy" was the title of the beautiful homily my uncle wrote and read at our ceremony, and also the name of the poem he read to us:

The joy we experienced on our wedding day is the kind of emotion I hope we experience over and over again throughout our marriage. It was the best.