06.30.17
Jessie and Dustin Share Intimate Memories

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From the bride Jessie:

While our wedding weekend was full of so many wonderful moments ? shared meals, drunken card games, relaxing on the lake, bonfires, music, moonshine, and love ? our favorite part was, to no surprise, the ceremony itself because every aspect was so intentional. Every word was tied to who we were. We could feel the love surrounding us ? just as they were a part of the love story that got us there, we made our guests a part of the ceremony, the commitment. We asked them to commit to support us in our life, and in our love, and in our marriage. They cheered a resounding ?YES.? We also weaved them into the ceremony through our readings. Dustin and I spent the first year and a half of our relationship apart. We wrote each other actual letters during this time. So instead of traditional readings, our siblings and best friends stood up and read excerpts from those letters. They painted the story of our beginning. They cried and beamed. We were transported back to the day we wrote the letters. It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life.
Our letters to each other:

Dustin to Jessie: I see us living in a big house with lots of land. I see wild kids running around with long hair, building forts, playing in the mud, learning how to fish, learning how ...