Entry 9: Happy Beginnings

Impromptu speeches are hard. Wearing bejeweled heels is harder. Finding true love, I would have to say, is the hardest--in its superlative level. It's in an entire league altogether of "difficult".

Since 5th grade, I see fairy tales as delusions. To me, they used to be unreal stories of non-existent happy endings until last Saturday.

Laces, foliage, bubbles, and glimmering lights graced the night like a beautiful Victorian dream. Yet above all, what lent beauty to the celebration is the couple's happy glow. The eyes smile in behalf of the heart. Though one can stage a portrait, it takes an excellent con artist to fake happiness. Elle maybe a lot of things but she is (1) not known much for her "artistry" and (2) never known to pretend. The picture above claims truth to this.

Now I understand why I never subscribed to how fairy tales are written. They have framed weddings as "Happy Endings". It is injustice to reduce life-long unions as such!

Weddings aren't just "happy endings". Marriages are, on the contrary, blessed beginnings. Thanks, Miles and Elle, for inspiring me to believe again. Congratulations!