it was silent in the canyon the morning they wed. down below the house, sat an amphitheater in the sky. they wed in the afternoon, when the sun sat above us, and the palm trees swayed in a dance. they looked so beautiful together, like an extension of one another. his eyes would well up, she’d wipe them away. an essence of sparkle gleamed in their loved ones eyes as they watched these two walk into the rest of their lives together as one.