Rapture
With locked arms, Noellee And David rose to the call of the banquet announcer, ready for their ceremony’s first dance. As they swayed in unison, time and space melted into an afterthought. All contentment was within reach, and the excitement of opening a new chapter together made their faces come alive, their very eyes locked in a dance of their own. The banquet hall, still in recovery from the reverberations of their first nuptial kiss, erupted into cheers, and would no longer be dormant.
The day’s mission was accomplished, and the couple proceeded to gratefully shun the garb of formality. Now unconstrained, personalities and connections were displayed in their truest form. They made their way to guest tables exchanging congratulations with thank yous, and contagiously warm embraces.
Though reputed in professional settings as a focused, serious mover of mountains, David, in casual settings was his own polar opposite. Conceived in conspiracy, his boyish charm, to the delight of his bride and their guests, was on full display, peaking with a victory lap on the back of his childhood friend Charlie. Noellee’s reserved nature subsided at moments, but her elegance held unmoved as she danced through her sea of guests and beamed smiles that lit up the room like a 9pm arctic summer sun.
Beckoned out of their shells by the tenacity of her presence, the mother of the groom led would-be bystanders along a vivacious conga line that grew as it collected the souls of tables it wove through. The night’s tone was accordingly set; the lights went dim, and rhythms commanded by the Rosario DJs poured energy into a room full of guests set on seeing it to a contenting fill.
Impossible is to imagine a time when the two did not know each other’s company, yet there they stood in the presence of their respective families and closest friends, testament to the existence of two parallel experiences destined to bind two souls into the unitary entity that they seamlessly formed. Scattered across space and time, the two lifetime’s worth of endearing memories and reflections formed the singular common thread which weaved all present into the same tapestry.
As aptly as a couple’s journey together could begin, the first date that took them up the face of an unmoving mountain connected Noellee and David physically and into the ethereal, metaphorizing conquest of the obstacles that they would lean on each other to overcome in the many worthwhile pursuits that they would undertake over the course of the remainder of their time together. Having reached a new threshold, they continued with locked arms, aligned spirits and common enthusiasm towards a beckoning summit that would draw them closer to the divine.