Love is a beautiful thing. It draws us from different backgrounds and experiences to common ground where we at ease and dare to be ourselves. It knits hearts together and makes us crave for that person whom we love to enter into our lives in permanency.
Marriage is wonderful. It is love expressed at its fullest, joining lives and families. Through it you see the best, the worst, and the truest side of each other. To love despite the frailty of our humanity is unselfish and only makes us better for it.
When I met Nicole and Mike for their engagement session back in the Fall, I knew that they had something special. That's a fact that was pretty easy to see. It is always an honor to me personally when I am asked to photograph someone's wedding. These two were no different. Their day was perfect. After a beautiful traditional Catholic Mass ceremony, I took their portraits beneath the canopy of some Spanish moss covered Oak trees which line the St. John's river and are so hauntingly gorgeous.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
