you got what you always wanted
and for that, I am glad
but just take a look around you
the city has gone mad!
This lyric from Bride and Prejudice pretty much captures the atmosphere around here these days. My house has been turned into a floral shop, my church into a wedding fair, and my room into a luggage display. As for me, I don't really know what I am becoming. I feel surprisingly normal, like I've already accepted and gone through the motions of processing all of this. At the same time, I find myself in extremities from stress to excitement to nervousness and back again.
Sometimes it's tempting to think of marriage as more of a ending than a beginning. After all, I've never spent any real time imagining my life beyond this point. And all the movies end with a wedding. It's like a one-time Christmas, and in one week we have to take down the tree and pack up the ornaments forever. It can't get better than this, can it?
But as my love would be quick to point out, with that attitude, of course it won't!
So here's to this being the first of MANY days that we will always come back to remember in hard times. The least, not the most, amount of love we will ever feel for each other. The first of many times that we will have this much joy to share between us. The smallest store of memories to compile into a 10-minute slide show. The first, but not the last, time we will want to dance only with each other.
This will probably be my last post on this blog, as we have family in town now. It makes it all seem so much more real! I'd like to give a final thank you to all who have helped to make this day and our ensuring lives as newly weds so wonderful, particularly our parents, extended families, and church family.
So for one final time, this is Emily Watts, signing off!
