on loss and a wedding

Yesterday our post ran on A Practical Wedding. It still feels strange to share so much with the vast internet world, but since it wasn’t terribly received, I thought it would be a good place to start.

"..And so we had a wedding. And that's what mattered. That in the midst of the saddest week of our lives, we were joining our families and friends to say: this is hard, but there is still joy....And we've learned that a wedding is not just 'your day', it is a day to celebrate the lives you were born into, the ones you've made, the ones you continue to build.  I am so thankful we were there..."