Congratulations Molly and Brian!!!

We've been in MA for the last two weeks as my little sister Molly got married on May 30th. We had a wonderful time and I have lots of stories to share, but I will start off by typing up "The Story of Molly and Brian" that I read at their wedding. This is for you Aunt Annie :)

The Story of Molly and Brian
As read at their wedding May 30, 2009

Neither Molly nor Brian can remember the first time they met, but their first date was September 28, 2001. Molly wasn’t dating anyone at the time and thought Brian would be “a cool guy to go to the movies with,” so she IMed him and asked him out. A few weeks later they were shopping at Providence Place Mall (and Brian hates to shop, so he must have liked her!). Molly picked out some shoes, a cd and a belt, but discovered she didn’t have the money to pay for them. Brian offered to buy them for her, but she only let him buy the shoes. They were blue vans platform sneakers. They were the first closed-toe shoes Molly had worn in nearly four years because she really liked toe socks. Molly wore those shoes almost every day for the next year just because Brian had bought them for her. She still has them. On her 18th birthday a month later, Brian bought her the cd and the belt.

Brian and Molly’s relationship has been filled with little acts of service that show how much they mean to each other. When they were in their early 20’s and their friends were enjoying single life, Molly and Brian were taking turns attending school while the other worked. Molly didn’t have her driver’s license, so Brian would get up every morning to drive her. When Brian was working night shifts, he would come home after working all night and still take the time to drive Molly to school before he let himself go to bed.

When I asked Brian and Molly when they first knew they loved each other, they said they didn’t know. As Molly put it, “we just quietly grew together, nothing momentous, nothing sudden. One day I just knew I loved him.” Over the past seven and a half years, they have quietly been there for each other whenever the other one needed them. They have made sacrifices to stay together. They have learned and grown together and reached a point where they know what the other is going to say before they say it. They “get” each other. After all, he loves her more than video games!

Molly and Brian – as you take this next step together, I’m sure your love for each other will keep growing as your love story continues to be written. As Sir James Barrie said regarding love, “if you have it, you don’t need much else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.”

I wish you every happiness in the world and I hope you have fun forever!