The ceremony was a breath held through a beating heart. Each word drifting into the air like oxygen for an audience suspended in time. My favorite words during the ceremony came from the Little Prince. A passage spoken from a fox about taming – the idea that to know another – to tame another – is to become attached and responsible and theirs. It’s the thing that brings color into the world and warmth into the cold. And it was very clear that it was a room filled with warmth. Filled with emotion and tears and joy. And it was that joy that permeated the day and crept into the night, as Cecily and David celebrated under the watchful eye of Lady Liberty in the distance with unending smiles and the type of closeness that makes the world special.