A few months before my wedding, my fiancé, Dylan, showed me a video of a groom throwing his bride into a swimming pool during their wedding photoshoot. He laughed and said it would be hilarious to do the same thing at our wedding. I looked him straight in the eyes and made it clear that if he ever did that to me, even as a joke, I would walk away. He promised he would never do such a thing, and I believed him. Our wedding day was everything I had dreamed of: elegant decorations, beautiful flowers, and a wedding dress that had taken six months to design. As my father, Phillip, walked me down the aisle, I felt certain I was beginning a wonderful new chapter of my lif…Continue Reading
