THE Wedding

  There are 3 weddings I've always wanted to attend, an indian wedding, a New york wedding, and a destination wedding.  Well I can mark one down because we went to New York for my brother's wedding last month.   It was amazing; the venue, the flowers, the ceremony, the reception, ALL of it.  I got so caught up in the day and seeing the love between my brother and his beautiful bride; I totally ugly-cried at the ceremony, like seriously ugly cried.  But as soon as the ceremony was over, my brother said some asshole comment and the wave of emotion was gone.   We enjoyed some amazing food, caught up with old friends, and the band was spot on... live mash-up. Awesome.

Here are some pictures:

So do you want to know what made me ugly cry (other than the love in the air)? I will initially default to the raging hormones that seem to have made themselves comfortable in my body since Miss Vivian arrived.  The second reason is the reading.  It's an excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit.

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."


"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.


"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."


"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"


"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."


Crying yet?