A Bridal Moment…

A beautiful bridal moment for Shelby…this sweet story & this stunning portrait says it all!

“I knew he was the one…”

“There are a million moments I could attribute to being “the one” when I knew Ben was the one.  A lot of those moments could be when other people said he should be the one, including my sister the Christmas after Ben and I started dating (we had only started dating the spring of that year).  My sister had had a few cocktails and suggested we get married.  Ben and I weren’t phased by her comment…perhaps another sign.

The real moment I had that “feeling” was the next spring, about a year after we’d been together when I called him to see if he wanted to help me move a friend into a new house at 6am one Saturday.  Ben was in law school spending long weeks studying and not super inclined to wake early on a Saturday.  However, he is someone who finds a lot of joy in manual labor so I thought I’d at least ask. He responded with a genuine “I would LOVE to help them,” like that’s the only thing he would want to do that day or any day for that matter.  I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised because of course Ben would want to help – I learned that about him long before this moment.  But I remember thinking that time, “This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.  I want to spend it with someone who gets so much joy from helping others.”

I think even when I tell Ben that story, he kind of rolls his eyes like “there has GOT to be some other moment,” but I honestly knew right then.  However, to appease anyone else that rolls his or her eyes as well, I also knew because when he looks at me, from the day I met him and even today, I know I’m special.”

- Shelby