in my life.

Two years ago tomorrow, we held our wedding ceremony in my hometown of Canada. Although we had been married already a few months before, I wanted to share my favorite time of the year with my husband and celebrate friends and family who weren't able to come out to L.A. I remember checking the weather forecast on what felt like an hourly basis for the two weeks prior to the date because at this time of the year in my little hometown, snow is entirely possible.  The weather was perfectly crisp, and the leaves had just started falling from the trees. It was a beautiful day, and we were able to take advantage of the local fall harvest when planning our reception menu.  We even got to stop and enjoy the fall colours early the next morning before rushing off to the airport.

Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your life together. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship - as they threaten all relationships at one time or another - remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.

A poem read for us at both of our ceremonies.

When we got our photos back from the photographer we both had these moments of, "wait, I don't remember this!" It's funny that the day where so many pictures were taken I can recall the fewest details, yet I remember in vivid detail every moment of the day we were married here in L.A a few months earlier; a day when it was just the two of us, a day when we forgot to take even one picture, a day when I got to wear a pretty yellow dress with tulips and smiled as I walked hand in hand with my new husband.

All photos taken by Adam Belnap