Just married!

I get in the car with Nancy. I have no idea where Norma , Licia and Gigino and all the Italian cousins are. I guess that everybody takes their own car to drive downtown to the Hesse Village. Bride apart. She goes with a white limo! When Nancy and I get to chapel it's still raining, but just a little. The chapel is already crowded and I see some familiar faces like zio Italo and Anna, zio Vittorio e Giuseppina. I start to feel strange and little emotional. I try to keep myself busy making pictures but images of the past keep coming in my mind! Finally the bride makes her appearence. She is beautiful. Joseph and Stephanie are by her side. Her children. I feel a knot coming in my throat. I try to find some confort in Nancy but it's already too late, she is also crying! I see in Sandra's eyes, when she exchanges her vows, that she loves this man. Deeply. This is a very emotional moment of the cerimony and I am not the only one trying to find a kleenex in my purse. Have Sandra and I ever thought that our lives would be like this when we were 17 and we still thought that life was a fairy tale? I am sure not. But after all life is still a fairy tale and I am so happy to be here today. After the cerimony the newly married couple takes pictures in front of the chapel. Families and friends are invited to join! I love to make pictures and I try to steal the photographer the best shot! Sandra shows her best smiles but also Norma, the maid of honnor, and Nancy are all glowing in front of the camera. John trys to smile when I take a picture of him showing a parking ticket!
Sandra&Jerry and the wedding party leave on a "just married" white limo and everybody goes home to get ready for the dinner!
to be continued....