For those who I've talked with, no one told me that preparing for their wedding was stress-free. They always talk about how stressful it was. And for us, this was no exception. What I do find as the exception, though, is the amount of help we received from people and how much more stressful it could have been. Someone was in charge to set up the reception, another to decorate the church, another person had to gather the heavy sound equipment, and the list goes on and on. The amount of people coming together to help us joyfully when we simply don't deserve it represents how much we've been loved at this church ever since the very beginning when we both started coming to this youth group (Yumi since her junior year in high school and myself since the 7th grade). Yumi and I were flooded by gratitude as we saw all the people God has blessed us with. From our parents to our family and friends, each face reminded us of what kinds of paths they walked through with us in the past, from spiritually dark times to moments of triumph. If it weren't for them, we would not be in love with God as we are now, and our hearts would not be as spacious for others. But through words of truths, encouragements, and exhortations, through sharing downtimes together, through the tears and laughter, and in short, through spending life together, we were able to just give all glory to God. And as we have been loved by many married couples at our church through their open lives and homes, we also committed to do the same, to love God more together, and to remember our wedding so that we may always be grateful.