Love Notes: The View From Both Sides (Vol. 6)
There are moments in life when time slows down — not because we ask it to, but because our hearts recognize something sacred unfolding.
Recently, my daughter got engaged, and I felt a kind of stillness layered with joy, disbelief, gratitude, and memory. You raise a child hoping they find someone who sees their whole being — not just who they are today, but who they are becoming. And then one day, you watch her stand beside someone who loves her in all the ways you silently prayed for.
As her mother, my heart is learning a new rhythm — one of celebration, pride, gentle release, and wonder.
Not long after her engagement, I stood in my familiar space — officiating a wedding for two people whose love I have come to deeply admire: Zarien and Briana. Standing beside a groom just moments before forever begins is a vantage point most never experience.
It’s the quiet seconds before everything becomes memory — the deep inhale, the wobble in a smile trying not to tremble, the look in his eyes that says, “This is it… she’s really walking toward me.”
From just inches away, I see things that no microphone, video, or photograph could ever fully capture — the way love settles into a person’s posture, not just their words.
And as I held space for their story, I realized I now understand love through two completely different lenses:
🔍the officiant who stands beside love as it becomes a promise
AND
🔍the mother who watches love become her daughter’s future
For years, I only knew the aisle from the place where vows are spoken as a young bride—and now, as the voice that guides a couple into their next chapter. But now, I am also learning what the aisle looks like from the other side — where a mother quietly hands her heart into someone else’s safekeeping, trusting love to take over where upbringing ends.
It is humbling.
It is emotional.
It is beautifully complicated in all the right ways.
I now see that every aisle holds two stories: one that begins and one that transitions.
Two views, both full of love — just lived differently.
And maybe that is the most sacred part: Love doesn’t look the same from every angle, but it becomes richer when we learn to see it from both sides.
With Moore Love always,
Kelly
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