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And I’ll never forget this day

Today, the Senate passed Matt’s first bill for education

The White House is buzzing at full capacity as everyone gets ready for the event

I get my makeup done early, and everyone has been very stern with Matt, telling him that he needs to keep out of the Queens’ Bedroom--that he can’t see ins with a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue that the citizens are welcoun salute while workers set up a line of tall white tents along the Rose Garden

Banquet tables with grand arrangements of baby’s breath and peonies line the tents, their scent, along with the scent of the roses, filling the air

I wear a dress with a plunging back, a long train, and a veilwith the chef, on a four-coursecrab and Bibb salad with pear and goat cheese, butternut squash soup, roast laetables and poached Maine lobster, and my favorite dessert of the White House, the chef’s special apple pie cheesecake All served on silver-rieous over the ivory silk tablecloths and with the gilded silver chairs

Auests are twenty-one presidents and their first ladies, two prime ers, Nobel prize winners, all of the children of the Children’s National hospital, and our families and friends

But with room in the vicinity, even all of them combined play a second fiddle to hi one of hissorgeous White House Rose Garden with a train of white ruffles trailing behindme his Finally his in every sense of the word

Matt looks stunning with his bow tie and crisp white shirt, the s pin of the United States pinned to his jacket

Hot

Powerful

And ardens behind him and the thousands of white roses up the trellis behind the makeshift altar, I cannot believe that today A’s crown, ishis second oath of the year--the twoof all, as I walk down the aisle, is the smile on his face It’s a subtle smile, not overtly wide, but combined with the quiet, intense, brilliant look in his eyes as he watcheswith the chorus music, it makes a knot for red-carpeted aisle

My dad is clenching his jaw really tight and his eyes are a little red, and I can’t iet marriedto this man

"You take care of her, Matthew," my father murmurs as he hands ers slide over to grip mine and he locks eyes with me as he leads me up the two steps to the altar to stand before the priest