Wedding Miracles

Just like "awesome" was co-opted by surfers and talking green turtles and a certain southern blogger who has been abusing the term since high school , the word miracle gets a pretty regular workout in everyday conversation. Miracle diets, miracle gro, miracle last second three pointer - hell, the miracle of childbirth, which frankly, I find a wee bit dubious as I creep closer and closer to my due date but that's for a different day and different blog - by virtue of its use, it's inevitable that we rob the word of its power.

But these two recent news items made me rethink the moniker. Call them what you will, but I'm gonna file them under mini wedding miracles:

First, we have the luckiest bride and groom in the whole world

and

truly, the loveliest