Hey, listeners, it's Mishi. So, as you know, during these incredibly difficult days,

we're trying to bring you voices we're hearing among and around us. Not fleshed out stories,

just quick conversations, postcards really, that try to capture slivers of life right now.

Yesterday we heard from Itai Kremere, a 50-year-old reservist who enlisted himself and is now waiting together with tens of thousands of other soldiers

to enter Gaza. And today we go from the battlefield to an impromptu outdoor wedding in Jerusalem.

Because, yes, despite everything, life continues amid the horrors.

Here's our producer, Adina Karpoch, with her dear friend, Catherine Leff.

So, Kath, can you start by introducing yourself? I'm Catherine. I live here in Jerusalem

and I got married this Monday in the middle of war. My partner is Avichai and we met about

over six years ago. We were both waiters at the same restaurant, and we got engaged last February,

and we had been planning, you know, basically a huge Israeli wedding party with 400 guests.

Taking back to last week, what were you doing? What were you preparing for?

What were you imagining?

I was just about tiny things like, you know, getting an ill-timed zit.

I was concerned about that.

I was concerned that, you know, what if the weather was going to be bad?

I was constantly checking the weather app, you know, to see if there was going to be

rain or sun. But at some point, I did manage to mostly wrap everything up. And then I was just

enjoying time with my family who had flown in from the States, you know, just walking around

Tel Aviv, we went to the beach. We were in the old city on Friday. I was actually really excited to be a bride. I actually wasn't one of those little girls who had always dreamed of it. But as I got closer to it, I started to get really excited and I kept imagining the day of like waking up and it being really peaceful

and putting on some nice music and doing some yoga and having my friends come over just being pampered

and having a special day and having everyone I love together in the same place. Okay, now take me to Saturday.

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