I got engaged to Gia about 4 years ago.\u00a0 Right after that we both visited my parents in New Jersey to tell them the good news. We were already starting to plan the wedding and
\nwere totally excited by it. Then all of our plans were abruptly halted.<\/p>\n
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer.\u00a0As you can imagine, I no longer felt excited about my wedding, my ceremony or having any sort of celebration. My\u00a0mom was sick and all I wanted was for her to get better. It was rough.<\/p>\n
At the same time, Gia didn\u2019t want to wait to get married. So we decided that it was best to simply go to City Hall to make it official.<\/p>\n
But it never felt right. Without a ceremony and without our family and friends with us, our marriage never felt official in our hearts. So when my mom got better, we decided that it was time to plan a real wedding.<\/p>\n
In my mind, I thought it was going to be just an awesome, touching and beautiful party. I thought I was doing it more for Gia than for\u00a0me. Things wouldn\u2019t really be different after our wedding.\u00a0I was wrong.<\/p>\n
I know that commitment is the backbone of success. And everyday I am with Gia, my commitment to her is growing and\u00a0my relating to her is getting richer, better and more\u00a0profound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I got engaged to Gia about 4 years ago.\u00a0 Right after that we both visited my parents in New Jersey to tell them the good ...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[29,43,44,55,56,70],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-birdi","tag-love","tag-magical","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.exptheme.com\/birddi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}