Remnants of A Wedding

Away and faraway from home, I found myself as an observer among the PDA-stricken people of Lindau, Germany. The Springtime is when weddings here flourish, with the hundred-year-old churches becoming a coven for the selfish; lovers who want only one person for the rest of times existence.

Many tears have glossed the floor with the joy of welcoming a new love into the world, rushing the gushing, slippery route upon where two hearts meet to become one (or one becomes two?). This day is meant to be a fairytale, one where the chapters include the fellow imaginative audience who wait in the pews to survey a gift so sorely given from thin air.

Pieces of weddings are left behind and scattered in the hues in which love comes into full bloom. There is no more need to continue putting on such a fantastical show, while all involved in the conception are now living true to its tangible birth and eventual pen-in-hand contract, signed sealed and delivered from being to becoming.

So I took some photos after my mama and I saw the flowers thrown high into the sky, floating down the same as the bride and groom coming hand-in-hand down the steps; here, these petals frame a beautiful allegory to their same val(h)ues) while acknowledging their individual bodies:

I saw the love that surrounded and protected this holy matrimony, as vibrant and delicate as its meaning; the feeling love brings is light, and as these petals soar to the rhythm of the changing winds, they gladly take to the scatter and chaos by remaining as bright and as dependable as the sun that will come like the dawn; love is like daybreak. It also feels as good as waking up with the person you love right beside you.

What strikes us as something beautiful can come back to us in a number of ways. If we choose to fill our lives with the remembrance of love rather than its demise, we will find comfort no matter where we are. I am blessed to know love and to sense it even hundreds of miles away from home. It is not but one thing, but many parts that make us feel whole.