Much happens together | 18 July 2006

The ceremony started a quarter of an hour earlier than planned, and by the high hot noon of July 15th, Scott and I were married. We exchanged our vows, mine delivered with much less ease than I’d anticipated, in front of our families in a room lined with shelves of books. After the ceremony, I hugged and kissed everyone I’d hugged and kissed half an hour earlier when they arrived, as though I became a different person, although I have not; nor am I changing my name.

That day and the next I witnessed the joining of the Joldersmas and the Hermans, my new in-laws interacting with the mass of family and friends that gathered at my parents’ home. It was bizarre, that simply as a result of our relationship, of Scott and I coming together as an in-the-same-room, inhabiting-the-same-home couple slowly over the past almost-three years, all these people came together under a white tent on a hot Canadian summer Sunday. The expansion of families is an amazing thing; and I know I’ll feel it even more a few months from now, when we celebrate in Florida with Scott’s side of the family.

Photo by J. Eleveld

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