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Through every conversation he’d had with her friends and neighbors during the past week, he had gained a little rown up surrounded by sowith it herself
Lucia Ferrer was holding court at the front of the church, bea true Jack had coreat deal during the days he’d spent in their home, so much that he was more than a little tempted to remain in Italy for a while Larry and Howie had been extre well and that he and Mary had decided to tie the knot right before Christmas As soon as they’d filled him in on the incredible sales and response to the Pocket Planner, Mary had taken the phone from him and promised she’d have Jack back in California and behind his coht back to the present as his gaze was caught by irl fro at hiirl, she stood proudly in a pretty white dress with a heaping basket of poinsettia flower petals in her sturdy little hands
Again and again throughout the week, Jack had caught hi of the children he and Mary would have Her mother had made him a photo album of Mary’s childhood photos, fro, and he could so clearly see hiirl in his arms who looked just like her mother
Everyone in the church was dressed in their best clothes, with holly decorating the ends of every pew He knew the childrendown the hours until Christes under their Christ all the excitement, they were an extremely well-behaved bunch
Just then, Jack’s brother Ethan walked in through the side door with a huge grin on his face Jack had called his fah he hadn’t expected any of them to be able to make it to Italy on such short notice, as luck would have it, Ethan had already been in London and pro True to forrin, Ethan had squeaked in just under the wire
Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" rang out loudly froh above the pews, and Jack instantly turned his focus back to the front doors of the church
The flower girl skipped down the aisle tossing petals froasped with awe as Mary appeared on her father’s ar but Mary and the soul-deep love he felt for her fell away Wonder wove through him as she slowly came up the petal-strewn aisle on her father’s ar dress, a dark-haired angel in lace and silk Even through her veil, he could see all the love she felt in her eyes as she s a crown reen leaves and berries, and as he worked to recover his senses, it took hier than it should have to realize it was a crown of el I’ll always love you
He knew he didn’t need to say the words aloud for her to hear them pass from his heart to hers
At the final pew, Mary’s father pressed a kiss to her cheek, but she never took her eyes fro down the few steps that separated them, Jack held out a hand for his bride, and when she took it, instead of drawing her up to where the priest aiting for the her hand to his lips
A moment later her arainst his in a proowns They’d come so far, from their first kiss under the ers drawn to each other, to this beautiful day when they wouldto hear those vows, but Jack decided they could wait a little while longer as he pulled her flush against him and deepened the kiss When they finally drew back froht eyes and flushed faces to take their places before the priest, the croas quite happily scandalized
As Jack held both her hands in his, the priest led theh the traditional cere the past few days of matrimonio classes when the priest had prepared thee and the vows they would make to each other Jack drank in every breath, every tre the si band from the intricately stitched pillow the priest held in his hands, Jack slid it onto Mary’s ring finger "Tu sei tutto per me, la luce dei miei occhi, sei mia per sempre" She was his entire world, the heart of his heart
When two tears slid down her cheeks and he gently reached out to wipe theesture of boundless trust
"All ht all of my dreaold band she’d had er "But then I found you and realized you were the drea for all my life Ti amo dal profondo del cuore e non vedo l’ora di cominciare quest’avventura con te, ahed as they heard her tell him that she loved him with all of her heart and soul…and that she couldn’t wait to take this adventure with hi to seal their vows by the time the priest declared theh the centuries-old church, Jack knew that theirs was a love that would transcend time