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From KB: I have been toying with idea of submitting our wedding to A Bicycle Built for Two. Tonight (election day), as I sit here, glued to the TV, hoping (and perhaps praying a bit – even though I am someone who doesn’t pray) that the person who will be chosen to run this country will support me, support my wife, support our sometime-in –the future children, support OUR FAMILY , it felt important to share our wedding, our marriage.

To show a love that really is no different than the love of Angela’s grandparents – married 50 years, who offered the advice that “it’s hard work, each and every day – and you have to make the decision to work every morning” at our rehearsal dinner, a love no different than my sister and her husband who are getting ready to welcome their first baby in early 2013, a love no different than so many other couples – who just happen to be one man & one woman, rather than two ladies.

April 28, 2012 was truly the best beginning to lots of best days…so filled with love, so surrounded by support, so much smiling my cheeks ached, so much dancing my feet swelled…but most importantly – and felt, over and over again SO.MUCH.LOVE. In pictures our wedding may look “un-blog-worthy” – not unique enough, not rustic enough, not enough chalkboards, perhaps even a bit too traditional for it to be a two lady wedding, but in reality it was so US – a true celebration of “Ang & KB”. I love crafting – and Ang indulged me every moment: from hand cutting out our save the dates & tying the baker’s twine, to hand beading our invitations (and place cards), making paper straws, cute signs, painting table numbers and so much more – all of those things were done by US – not just me. And each and every one of them were fun (okay, there were moments we had to walk away, but overall – they were fun) . We worked hard to make sure our ceremony meant something – that we included people & readings that we love, that it shared our story, that no other two people could have stood there at that moment and said “I do”. We wanted our reception to be a party – full of great food, drinks and music, lots of fun & dancing – and it was. It went by so fast, and yet, I truly feel as though we were able to soak up so much of each and every moment. We LIVED our wedding – and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

There were so many “favorite parts” to our day…early in the morning sneaking over to our venue with my (very) soon to be wife and walking around, seeing Ang for the “first time” on the beach, walking down the aisle, our incredibly personal ceremony (where our officiant used my often quoted phrase about Ang “you were all ever wanted and never thought I’d find, wrapped up in a package I’d never expected” and the vows that we wrote together), dancing back down the aisle as “Mrs and Mrs”, our first dance (even better than all the times we had danced to “our song” in our kitchen), and so much more…but through it all, it was the love, the support, the smiles all around us that made it what it was. Yes, did we love the flowers, and were the linens gorgeous – absolutely (and goodness did it feel good to know we paid for pretty much all of it – and were left with $0 in debt!!) but it was the friends and family that made it what it what it was. It was our dads walking us down the aisle. It was my wife catching my eye across the room and mouthing “I love you, wife”. It was our sisters and their fabulous speeches. It was my uncle from Tennessee capturing our first dance on video on his phone. It was the impromptu chanting of “Vecch –i- one” that our friends started at the end of the night.

Making Angela my wife was the best decision I have ever made …and truly, the easiest. She is my cheerleader, my number one, my family. She is the one I laugh with, cry with, and sometimes laugh through the tears with. There is no one else in this world I would want to share all the ups and downs with…there is no one else I want to “work hard” for.
I realize that I am lucky…lucky to have a family who loves me no matter who I love, who loves my wife like another daughter/sister, lucky to live in a state where we can celebrate that love, lucky to have the support of incredible friends…and lucky to have been able to bring that all together on 4/28/12. But it shouldn’t be about luck….everyone should be able to be this lucky & all love should be this celebrated!

From the other side, I can say that it isn’t always easy, but it is always worth it. No matter what you have to do – have the wedding that is right for YOU. Celebrate your love the way that you want to. Live each moment of your wedding – don’t always worry about making it the best/most perfect day…remember that it will be, no matter what, a beginning…your beginning, and that there will be lots of best days to come. If your wedding day happens to be one, YAY! And if not, it really is okay too.

Truer words have not been written. It is not about the wedding. It is about the love. And the commitment.

And lady, your wedding is so blog-worthy for so many reasons, including how gorgeous it was.

Photographs by Alexandra Roberts.