There’s something both very similar and eerily different about weekday weddings. The schedule is the same – there’s the getting ready, the ceremony, some form of celebration – but the cues are just a little different. Something about the traffic patterns, what’s going on in the outside world, the fact that more guests show up at the reception than the ceremony – little reminders that life is going on.

And that’s really what it was about Christine and Dave’s Friday wedding. There was a beautiful vulnerability to it all – not so much a wedding with two people, so much as two people with a wedding. From the time getting ready at home to a constant willingness to simply be present and live in the moment, it was a day full of pulsing, pounding life that reminds you what it’s all really for.