I did end up hearing more about Manda & Rick’s story and how we all ended up there on that rainy Friday evening. But this, my friends, is not my story to retell. I will just leave with you images of their ceremony – just the four of us – Manda, Rick and the minister that met them that evening as well – inside the Gallery at The McKinney Performing Arts Center.

This is where they opened their hearts to each other in a way that I have never seen before. Where they said words to each other, that I have never heard spoken before. Where we all cried tears of joy and sadness together, in a way that I have never shared with someone before.