At our wedding our good friend Michael Bess led a champagne toast with this wonderful poem by Yeats:
The Lover Tells of The Rose In His Heart
ALL things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing [...]

the bride, kissing groom

This was not THE kiss, just one of many many that afternoon, one that found its way in front of a camera….

the bride, with groom

By popular demand, more wedding photos, this time with the other half.

the bride, unveiled and not spinning

And one more time — the world can never have enough of such beauty.

the bride, unveiled and still spinning

Here she is again, still as beautiful as ever.

the bride, veiled and spinning

This is the woman I married today. She is beautiful. (more photos later….)

… “The Bridegroom” by Anonymous 4 from their album “Darkness into Light: Tavener’s The Bridegroom and other works.” I’d post it but it’s 17 minutes and 40 seconds long and I don’t have the time to convert and post a song that long at the moment — I have a wedding to get ready for. [...]

rings of fire 5

Wedding bands, melting.