Jan 15 2007
Wedding Story
Generally speaking, I don’t buy into this idea that “a bride’s wedding is the happiest day of her life.” It’s just too cliché and overly sentimental, and it plays into the hands of the crass and sometimes abhorrent wedding industry. I’m not saying weddings are bad, or that brides (and grooms) shouldn’t enjoy the day – just drop the platitudes, OK?
Occasionally a story comes along that transcends all that, even if it uses the same props and characters. Like this one, for example, a wedding story told in photographs and text. It will break your heart, but it isn’t maudlin because it is presented as photojournalism, not “wedding photography.”
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Wow.
I never link to my own blog anywhere, hell I haven’t even filled in the field up there (Imagine me pointing up), but here read this and, you know, this.
A nurse at the MTL General palliative care unit told me something, she said “People always ask me ‘don’t you get tired of your job, don’t you hope for miracles?’” to which she always replies “I see them every day, just not the kind you’d recognize.”
I’m not sure whether i should thank you for providing a window to such a truly moving story, or be a tad miffed that you made me weep like a child in my morning coffee! :)
Without spoiling the story for those who haven’t viewed the photos yet, I find the groom’s stance on the whole situation very admirable for one so young…
I think there was a lot of dust emanating from that web page, because some of it got in my eye, causing irritation, making it hard to see. I swear, it was dust.
Wonderful.
Someday I will talk about why I avoid the full impact of such stories…