One bride shares the journey she faced, and she came to realized that plans are not always the same as promises.
A Marriage Made on Promises Not Plans
Three days after I said, “yes to the dress,” I woke at midnight to the sinister glow of my iPhone. I learned my dad had been shot point-blank in the jaw during an attempted carjacking. The months that followed were agonizing. Joe cared for my mom as she slept night after night at the hospital, and he comforted me as I wept, afraid, unsure, and heartbroken.
We played “Blackbird” from an iPhone. The music drowned out the sound of my stoic bridesmaids, calling 250 of my loved ones from down the hall to tell them the wedding would not happen. My dad’s childhood best friend pulled out a guitar, and Joe and I danced to “With a Little Help From My Friends.” He twirled me around in the fluorescent lights that, for a brief moment, felt magical.I called Joe my “husband” for the first time that night, the word precious and new and right on my lips. We lay tangled on a couch beside my parents. We fought time, battled exhaustion. Another minute awake was another minute with dad.
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