Angela + Adam | Summertime Colorado Cabin Wedding

Angela and Adam’s Colorado wedding was bathed in prayer that began months before the nuptial Mass. As they planned for their wedding, they kept their main focus on preparing for the day-to-day living of the sacrament that would begin as soon as the celebration ended. This gave birth to a peace and beauty on their wedding day that can only come from Christ.

From the Bride: From the very beginning of our relationship, prayer was at the center. In fact, Adam was so nervous to ask me out on a date that he spent an hour pacing around his apartment, praying the rosary in hope I’d say yes when he called me. (Spoiler alert: I did).

We always prayed before meals and went to Mass together on Sundays. The first time I told Adam that I loved him was in a church. We committed to a holy hour together every week and met with our mentor couple several times after engagement in preparation for the sacrament we would be living out together. Later, leading up to our wedding, we asked religious orders, family, and friends all across the United States to pray for our special day, and we could feel the grace of their intercession.

Adam and I were ecstatic when we found out we would have three priests con-celebrate the wedding: Fr. Joe Mclagan, a good friend of Adam’s, Fr. Mark-Mary, a good friend of mine, and Fr. Brendan Rolling, a mutual friend from my time in FOCUS. They had each played a pivotal role in our lives and in our relationship, and it was a blessing to have these young, vibrant priests at the altar as we exchanged our vows.

When Adam and I picked our wedding date, we didn’t know it was the feast of Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, parents of St. Therese of Lisieux and the first married saints with children to be canonized together.

This was kindly pointed out to me later over a team dinner at World Youth Day by Sr. Bethany Madonna of the Sisters of Life. After that, we asked daily for their intercession as well as the intercession of St. Faustina. In fact, I had multiple ‘run-ins’ with St. Faustina leading up to our wedding day, including her relic being present for veneration during our marriage retreat.

With our priests, families, and patron saints all aligned, we were prepared and ready to celebrate the sacrament. All that was left to do was walk down the aisle at St. Thomas More Catholic Church.

Many of our friends and family are fallen-away Catholics or non-practicing Christians. We wanted everyone to feel welcome, included, and uplifted during the nuptial Mass, but more than anything we wanted them to experience the liturgy in its fullest form.

The music was performed beautifully by our friends; the piano, violins, and guitars made for a serene and reverent atmosphere. There was a profound sense of calm and peace during the ceremony, and the Mass proceeded without a hitch. Fr. Mark-Mary gave a moving homily, Fr. Joe read for the consecration, and Fr. Brendan looked so stylish with his goatee! Later on we had more people compliment the liturgy than the reception, which is exactly what we wanted.

The moment Adam and I hold most dear from our wedding day was our “first look.” It happened before the ceremony in the adoration chapel behind the church. Adam was praying in front of the monstrance before I arrived ten minutes later. When we saw each other for the first time, so many emotions flooded out of us: happiness, joy, relief, and a spirit of peace that we were beginning our lives together in the best way we knew how, in front of and with Christ. We knelt down and prayed together for a few moments, asking the Lord to be with us on that day and the rest of our days together.

People will tell you “the day goes by so fast,” and it does. In the blink of an eye the wedding celebration begins, and then it’s over. All the toasts were funny and heartfelt, and the tacos were all-you-could-eat, but nothing moved us like those first moments in the chapel, the first moments of the rest of our lives.

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Angela + Adam | Summertime Colorado Cabin Wedding

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