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Well, in the months leading up to my wedding, I was consistently asked this question by my friends.

And it was, do you think you will cry during the ceremony?

And I was honest with them.

So I told them, you know, probably not.

I will not try to stop myself if I start crying, but I'm also not going to try to cry,

just because it's my wedding.

I said, but if I'm honest, like I know myself, and it either takes a lot for me to cry

or it takes sports, which I know is an emotional deficiency in me and is shared by many other men in the

room. Some of you wives are nudging your husbands. There's just something about a walk off home

run that just like get you, get you right there and makes you tear up. But the day of my wedding came

and I was standing at the front of the altar all dressed dressed up, and the bridesmaids were walking down

the aisle, and the music was playing, and the moment came where they closed the back door

as we waited for my bride to arrive and enter. And we got married in like a small chapel,

so from me to the back was about 20 yards, and there was a wooden door that was arched at the top and it had windows on it. So I could see into the outside. And as the music played and as we waited, I could see Riley, my beautiful bride, walking towards the door. My father-in-law would want you to know that he was also there with her,

but that was not on my mind. I have no clue what he looked like. But she walked to the door,

and there was a moment when she got to the door where they held her there for about probably

really three seconds, but that moment felt like an eternity, because I could see her through the window, but the door

was still shut. And in that moment, I felt all the fullness of the love that I'd ever had for her

and all the longing I could imagine for that door to be ripped off its hinges, for her to come up

and for me to receive my bride and for us to be joined together in marriage.

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