Not exactly an epithalamion, but it works

There are few greater honors than knowing your carefully chosen words can touch someone enough to make them emotional.

I pulled off that trick with a wedding card, crafting something which made me a little misty as I wrote it (if you've read earlier posts, you know that is no challenge).

But dammit, I'm a writer, even if I'm a seldom-middle-mannered editor for a miserly metropolitan weekly chain.

My attitude is: If I give them a card with stock wedding salutation, I'm cutting a major corner on my obligations as a friend and guest on their special day. The word is where I shine and weddings are the ideal situation for weighty lines, so I had hunted for the right ones throughout the week leading to the wedding.

The lightbulb went off the night before the nuptials, as I sat in my hotel room and my iTunes clicked over to "Two of Us" by The Beatles. I heard said couple in that song, and found my way to tell them.

And no, you can't have a copy of it, nor will I ever post one even though I wrote it out before copying it into the card.

It was intensely personal, and to get any deeper into specifics would betray that touch of emotion, dear friends.