Dancing Queen

This is Enya giving it large at Chris and Tim's wedding reception; thanking my lucky stars she wasn't holding her camera too, or the full horror of my belly-dancing-meets-70s-disco would have been revealed for all to see. As the song goes, Oh What A Night.

The whole wedding was an absolutely magical celebration of the joining of two very special and lovely people, and the church service was especially moving. One reading was from Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres, and went like this:

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.