BALTIMORE | 131 | WEDDINGS
It was not the day they had expected.
Brittingham had asked Rigney her wed-
ding vision at one of their earlier meet-
ings. It was simply, “to be married to
Cymbor at the end of the day.” And that
had happened. But they felt cheated out of
everything: the décor, the flowers— Brit-
tingham had kept Rigney’s Local Color
Flower bouquet safe until they were re-
united—the band, the food, the speeches.
Those would have been the moments they
talked about the next day, the next month,
the next year. The pictures they would
have selected for their wedding album.
But you can’t control the weather. And
even in the later pictures snapped by
Johnson as they moved from location to
location, there were hugs and held hands,
small smiles, and tiny babies, safe.
“We’re both spiritual people,” says
Rigney, although she admits it’s hard to
find meaning in the why. Why didn’t the
first venue work out? Why was this one
available? Why did a city that had already
experienced “a 1,000 year rainstorm” flood
once again? Or you can just say to the
universe, says Rigney, “I accept how things
played out.” “In the end, a wedding only
lasts one day, and all you’re left with are
photos and memories,” says Rigney. “We
still have those.”SAY “I DO” TO A WEDDING
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