one of the best parts of this wedding was that i got to see the relationship grow from the very beginning - from the conversations in the beginning about whether this was going to last - to many, many dinner time conversations about nothing and everything - to having them let me go hours of seeing them before telling me they got engaged (fortunately for them they told me before i went to bed else she would have been woken up abruptly for about a week out of revenge). i even got to be consulted when Brian brought his first birthday present for her. i think we decided on something funny instead of serious (although maybe he also got her something more serious). i think the stool he got her was one of my suggestions. it was about a foot tall, and the look on her face when she opened it was priceless. it was the oddest present, and she had no idea what to do with it. and then it dawned on her that Brian's about a foot taller than her - and well, it's been used by them to say good night a lot in the past year and a half. i saw it at the front of the church on their wedding day but didn't think anything of it. when the pastor told them to kiss in the wedding ceremony, i saw his best man go down and got the stool, and i started laughing louder than is really respectable when you're standing in front of an entire church of quiet people. by the time he put it in front of Brenda and she stepped up to Brian, everyone else had joined in laughing.
hopefully this ability to give each other joy - and bring it to the others around them will continue for years to come :)
i'll end this with a picture of them leaving church. My dad's a truck driver like Brian's dad (Brian just drove for a summer job) - so he told me that I should show my dad the picture. and i thought i'd show all of you as well :)
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