Surviving Week One

Looking back on the past three weeks, it still feels so surreal! As I browse through picture on FB, it's a little hard to take it all in. It's hard to believe that all those months of preparation was done and over with in less than 24 hrs! From 7am to about 11pm and it was done. I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE MARRIED!!! I mean that in a good way of course. :)

Of course, since that day I've had hundreds of people ask me "how was it??" and after a while, all I can really say is "it was great and everything went well". I wish I could express it with as much excitement as I felt that day but in truth, I'm still recuperating from the madness and my body is still begging for more rest. In fact, we haven't even fully unpacked yet!

But honestly, even though there were some random bizarre things that went wrong (we knew it would be the case though!), everything really did somehow work itself out. Actually, we have a lot of people to thank for making sure things did turn out okay. So many of which we have no idea how we can thank them enough for what they have done for us. We're so eternally grateful. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful day and we were as happy as can be. I have to say though, that the ceremony was my favourite part. Having all our friends and family (esp the non-believers) at the church with us as we made our promise to each other and God, it was the best present we could've received. The bonuses were that I didn't trip (I came awfully close, multiple times though), Cy broke down in tears before I did, AND he made over half the people there cry. All were happy tears of course.

There is one thing I do have to confess, though. The moment that I cried the most was not during our vows, nor was it during the special song he sang me (I was actually giggling at one point because he was crying so hard and I thought it was so cute). The moment that I shed the most tears was during worship at the end of the ceremony. I was just so incredibly thankful and happy to be praising God with all our loved ones as we celebrate our marriage. I am so glad that the one thing I stood my ground for the hardest, was keeping Praise & Worship at the end. It felt SO right. To me, it only made sense to end the wedding by drawing everyone's attention to God and praising Him for all that He has done for us. My greatest desire for this wedding was to allow our non-believing friends and family realize how much God has done in our lives and how beautiful His love really is. And I think I can happily say that the wedding has served it's purpose :) I truly believe that every one there felt and understood the true source of our love and happiness.

I am so touched to see how this special day brought so many different people together. And to realize just how much we are loved and blessed by our friends and family was overwhelming. Whether it was from the people present or from people who couldn't make it but were thinking of us - we could totally feel the love. It was indeed oh-so-very-heart-warming :)

And so, I can now affirm that a wedding is only truly special because the people make it special. Thank you everyone for making it a truly special wedding for us.

Since we're still waiting for our official photographer to get our pictures back, here are just a few of the many not-yet-pro-but-pretty-priceless-pictures :)

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