"I felt exactly like that," T.J. says, letting out a laugh as he does. "And that's even knowing we wanted it to be small. It's still... There's more than you even think there's going to be, and you want to get everything just right. I never thought I'd have to learn so much about what flowers and colors were in season." He all but rolls his eyes as he speaks, though he's smiling as he does. In the long run, it had all paid off, and it still could have been a hell of a lot worse. He can only imagine what he would have been roped into if his mother were in Darrow, how big an event she would have tried to make the wedding. Not least because he never thought he'd want to get married at all, because it took him so long to come around to the idea in the first place, he's glad he didn't have to contend with any of that.

It doesn't make it any less surreal at times that this is actually something that's happened, that he's a married man. He feels that way about a lot of his life in Darrow, though — his relationship in the first place, his sobriety, some of the friends he has here. For all that he might have lost a hell of a lot, he's still better off here than he can remember having ever been. "But it sounds like you might have at least one thing out of the way now."