Maggie and Ryan's Wedding
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
10 October 2015

On Your Wedding Day

​In a perfect world
I would wish you a marriage
Like two mountains embracing,
Sharing the same foundation,
Lush growth intertwining wildly,
Seeds from each mountain
Germinated by the other.
In a perfect world there would be no one
Needing to blast a tunnel between you
So that a road might run through.
In a perfect world, I would wish you a marriage
Like two sea currents, parallel, yet weaving through
One another, creating whirlpools in your wake;
By your very natures immutable, enhancing
One another and letting go, empowering
Each other to be free within your union.
In a perfect world there would be no
Boulders to encircle, pulling you away, no sudden
Promontories to crash against in confusion.
But we know, this is not a perfect world.
It has to be enough that you have found one another
To share your life’s journey, enough
To cherish each other at day’s end.
So I choose to wish for you, that,
In this imperfect world, you will always have enough:
Both enough contentment and enough challenge
To hold you satisfied; enough strength to keep from
Clutching too hard so you never break the bond;
As solid as the mountains in endurance, growing together;
Enough peace to balance the heartache, the sorrow
And I wish you such joy, playful,
Limitless like the sea, replenishing
As you wind your lives around one another’s.
Love is the miracle that chose the two of you;
Remember, you two are the miracle
That will keep it always dancing.

~Nita Penfold