It was Sunday 15th June 2003.
I was dressed for the part. I made it to the church on time. I was nervous. It was the first time I had been the groom at the wedding. I didn’t know what to do even though we had rehearsed.
My best man and I had a brilliant set-up for the entrance of the bride. He supplied some sunglasses. I put them on, and when the vocals and piano opening to “All My Life” started and the bride and her father emerged, I took off those sunglasses in a way that was supposed to make me look cool (for a change). That came to nothing though because of the vision of beauty that caught my attention.
She looked amazing. Tears welled up in my eyes. God had blessed me far beyond my dreams.
The rest of the day went by in a blur. This was about celebrating a love I had never known before. I remember being glad to rest after the reception with my bride. I still needed to pinch myself to realise this was happening to me, that she really was my wife. That this woman who I already considered the most beautiful in all existence looked even more radiant in her bridal attire truly allowed me to understand what Stevie Wonder meant by those splendid lyrics:
There’s something about your love
That makes me weak and
Knocks me off my feet
11 years later, it’s Sunday 15th June all over again. What astounds me is that the bride is yet even more delightful a vision of beauty than she was all those years ago.
She knocked me off my feet then, she knocks me off my feet now. May that always be the case from my beloved wife. For as Stevie sang:
I don’t wanna bore you with it
Oh but I love you
I love you
I love you
More and more
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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