Here’s the thing that struck about Mathias + Michelle as we were gathered round a table of beverages, weeks before the big day:

What. A. Way. To kick off my 2019 season, showing a wedding that I connected with on so many levels—
A day for Mallory and Thomas.
A day full of quirk and sentimentality: my most favorite combination.

What they asked for was movement.
What we got was pretty moving.

Can I tell you something? My jokes suck. I don't pretend to be a comedienne. I’ve only got one Laffy Taffy gem in the back pocket about dentists, and find funny-on-command to be an elusive chimera. 

But it’s important that you know that going into Damian and Ellen’s wedding day blog…

Can I just use this space as a place to spread out a few random thank yous?
No one stopping me?
Great.

It's delightfully amusing to me, the things that will stand out from a wedding weeks after it has passed. When it's no longer freshfresh and the day has had it's time to settle in the cracks of memory. They're usually the small moments and short phrases, the significance of which is impossible to gauge at the time. 

Watch it--
Wait for it--
This wedding: it's all about the smiles.