168. Sayamura Wedding Sway

Today I had the privilege to stand beside Wendy and Robert (Sayamura) as they professed their young love to one another.  After 9 years of courtship, these two nervously exchanged vows in front of a small group of their closest family and friends at Tibbets Creek Manor in an "outdoor" ceremony sans the rain!  

The best part were the little personal touches.  Wendy and Robert originally met playing DDR @ Silver Coin.  The table names were actual DDR songs hand picked with the actual images from the original songs.  After the ceremony, the couple walked down the aisle to "Dub by Dub" their "song".  A slide show was created by the Best Man, brother of the bride, and my love <3, with a ton of embarrassing photos to initiate much laughter from the crowd. The giveaways consisted of cookie mix in a jar - with the thought that each person would go home and 'bake with love'.

It was a long and emotional day - filled with friends and family, food, memories, a few tears and many many laughs.  I am thankful to have shared in this special day with you guys and since we know my pictures will not be up for months I had to steal some of Kelsey's... THANKS!

The Wedding Party



Best wishes to the new Sayamoungkhounm's! 

Blessing For A Marriage
by James Dillet Freeman


“May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. May you always need one another -- not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness. A mountain needs a valley to be complete. The valley does not make the mountain less, but more. And the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it. So let it be with you and you. May you need one another, but not out of weakness. May you want one another, but not out of lack. May you entice one another, but not compel one another. May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another. May you succeed in all-important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces. May you look for things to praise, often say, "I love you!" and take no notice of small faults. If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back. May you enter into the mystery that is the awareness of one another's presence -- no more physical than spiritual, warm and near when you are side by side, and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities. May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy. May you have love, and may you find it loving one another.”