The speech I would have given if I hadn't been drinking all day...
You look amazing. It’s not just the dress and the hair and the make-up. It’s also the way you wear that smile.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to tell if that smile is a mask and behind it is all the grief you’ve experienced this summer. Or if it’s an attempt to reassure me and everyone else that you’re “fine, really, totally, literally fine.”
But today, that smile is something else.
It’s the culmination of all the work and planning you’ve put in and the excitement of starting your life with your husband. It’s having your family and friends around. It’s the party you’re throwing.
And it’s beautiful.
I hope you’ll remember that the wedding is just the beginning of it. What happens after is marriage.
Marriage is very different from weddings.
For one thing, there’s less cake in marriage. More microwave-heated restaurant leftovers, more hastily-prepared meals over the sink, and more boxed macaroni and cheese because it was on sale. Less cake.
