the journal of love stories

He turned around to see her for the first time and tears streamed down his cheeks and into his thick beard. She smiled big, and then began wiping the tears away from her own eyes. After years upon years of knowing each other, growing through the awkward stage of adolescence  together, and maturing into adults […]

To get married to the love of your life, is almost like coming home. Like waiting to come back from a long business trip or a hard day’s work to a place you can undo yourself. There’s something comforting about sharing your life with someone you find so special. You can almost feel its sigh […]

It was a perfect Autumn day as she made her way down the grassy aisle to meet the man of her dreams. The sun and her smile both beamed and you could tell that, although slightly nervous, Matt was ever so confident about this moment. Matt and Charlayne are the type of people that hold […]

It was right about the time that they were switching from an elegant waltz to a sassy tango when her Mom leaned over to me and said “You know. It could have rained this entire day, but her smile would’ve have brightened everything up so much that the weather wouldn’t have mattered. But, the rain […]

There they were, hand in hand, heart to heart in front of all their closest family and friends. Their bridesmaids and groomsmen stood approvingly beside them. Their parents watched them from the front row, supportively. The whole courtyard had focused their attention on them. It was there in that moment that they declared their own […]