Our Batanes wedding, told in full

We got married in Batanes on a Tuesday, because that was the only day the boat ran.

It rained the whole morning. My mother kept saying it was a blessing, which is what mothers say when it rains on your wedding, and by two o'clock she was right — the sky opened over the hills and everything went gold.

Nobody filmed it. We have four hundred photographs and not one video, and for a while I thought that meant we had no way to tell it. This is the telling.