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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, loss and redemption.

I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi.

It's wedding season, so we thought we'd revisit two of our favorite essays about tying the knot.

First up, Ada Kelhoon.

In her Modern Love essay, The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give,

she lifts her glass to the true challenges of marriage.

Catherine Hahn of the Amazon series Transparent and I Love Dick reads us Ada's essay.

The Wedding Toast

While away at a conference in Minneapolis, I was awakened at dawn by a call from my husband in our New York apartment.

Our eight-year-old son had just roused him with a suspicion that they might not make their 730 AM flight to join me,

because it was now 740, and they were still at home.

The original plan had us all traveling to Minneapolis together.

I would attend my conference.

My musician husband would do a show at this school club,

and our son would get hotel pool time, triple win.

Then my husband was offered a great gig in New York for the same day we were set to leave,

so he called to change his and our son's tickets.

Changing them, he learned, was going to cost more than buying a new pair of one-way tickets out.

So he did that instead, planning to use their original return tickets,

not realizing that if you don't use the first leg, they cancel the second.

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