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Veronica Anne Blaha, 23, painter preparing for graduate school Clinton William Ayre, 29, software engineer and musician

We have been together for 4 years and decided that we wanted to be married after a series of life-changing events involving birth and death affected both of our families. We wanted being married to afford us opportunities to travel together as lifetime companions to nurture each other's changing paths.

There's a wedding in the south we went to that made a lasting impression on us. It was in a park in the city we went to college in. The wedding was a marriage between a prominent southern writer and a woman who was a hard laborer and good friend. A small letterpress company did the invites. It felt very town hall, very intimate, as the park wasn't much larger than a lot of land to build a house on. It was almost as though they were having a wedding in a building, yet there was none. This made the wedding seem pre-civilization, which was refreshing.

We are agnostic and open to ritual interpretations of marriage. We like to think of ourselves as creative people, aware of and attuned to the arts and artistic projects, living under the idea that art and life can be more interconnected with small, everyday efforts. The opportunity to create a wedding ceremony through collaborative input and outside influences rather than inward, heirarchal lines of command is what attracted us to your project. We would like to put aside personal sentiment in favor of the experience.