Enough For Ever After: ...presentation of the bride...

I had contemplated using a handful of different pieces for my walk down the aisle. Somehow none of them really seemed to fit. But one day, I was driving to work, and it occurred to me that I could arrange the song I'd written for DG for the organist to play and it would be perfect.

Funny story about that song. Back when DG and I had first started dating and I was still living back in Missouri, I was at home alone one random Friday night and decided to sit down at the piano. This song had kind of been floating around in my head for awhile but it hadn't completely come together. By the time I got to the end of the chorus, I realized I'd written lyrics that I didn't really set out to write...thought about it...and decided they were true. Needless to say, this song means a great deal to me. This is how I discovered I'd fallen in love with DG...

This is Love

Stripped away is the mask that I'd been wearing

I'm exposed for exactly who I am

Still you see the beauty in all these flaws

Piece by piece, I am giving you all of me

And it feels like all I've ever dreamed of is one step away from truth

You're the hope that I'd been missing

I've realized I needed you

We are the two I wanted to be half of

My Love, this is love

Becoming more, like myself in every day

You inspire things in me I can't explain

By your side, I amount to so much more

You are mine, and believe me, I am yours

And it feels like all I've ever dreamed of is one step away from truth

You're the hope that I'd been missing

I've realized I needed you

We are the two I wanted to be half of

My Love, this is love

Anyone could hold me, anyone could say

I am beautiful in their eyes and look the other way

But you see something different

And knowing who I'll be

You push me

And it feels like all I've ever dreamed of is one step away from truth

You're the hope that I'd been missing

I've realized I needed you

We are the two I wanted to be half of

My Love, this is love

So unfortunately I don't have a recording to point to for how this song sounded as my dad escorted me down the aisle...but it felt exactly how I wanted it to, and despite the work it required, it was the perfect choice for us. The photos that follow are some of my favorite.