i carry your heart with me.

I think, sometimes, I forget that this great party--it's to celebrate a marriage.  I am trying hard to focus on the reason for the party and the celebration, but sometimes all of the flowers, and hair, and invitations, and oh, the cupcakes just overwhelm the whole marriage aspect.  Shocking, I know.

 love. love. love these tiny ring bowls from palomas nest! check them out. 

So, this is for Sam.  And for our marriage.  Not the party that it is taking up all of my time, as fun as it is to plan.  Not the fact that Valentine's Day is a few days away.  But for our actual 2 become 1 marriage. {sidenote: I think I've always loved it because e.e cummings used lowercase and parantheses like crazy.}

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in

my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want 

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows 

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hid)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

-e.e. cummings

So for once, don't try to figure out what the words mean (I'm talking to me here) and just listen to the beauty.  i carry your heart with me.  Coming soon to a wedding, i mean, marriage near you.