She could see his big, blue eyes twinkle as his broad lips formed a smile that lit up his whole face. His pearly white teeth sparkled in his perfectly formed mouth. His cheeks were rosy and high set. Well rounded ears made his face look perfectly symmetric.
She had studied every line in his face many times, how it changed with his moods. She could've watched them every minute for the rest of her life, which was her plan.
With those thoughts in her head, looking him straight into those beautiful, big, blue eyes, she vowed to love and to hold him as long as she shall live.
The minister announced, "Here by, I pronounce thee man and wife. You may kiss the bride."
He lifted her veil and bent down toward her lips. Pulling her to him he kissed her gently.
This had been the moment they had both waited for three years. She felt a warm fire, joyous like the sun, start burning inside her. This was the happiest day of her life. A rose bloomed inside her. The happiness spread through her like blood, a river, a strong wind.
The newly-weds went out of the church, where a car was waiting to transport them to their party. They never made it.
On their way a car crashed into them, killing her husband. He had seen the car advance and thrown himself over his bride, protecting her from all harm, shielding her from the world and its brutalities. He was dead, she didn't have one scratch. Her joy was so short lived. The happiest day of her life had quickly transformed into the saddest. All happiness abandoned her now dark soul.
Never again would she see his big, blue eyes twinkle as his broad lips formed a smile that lit up his whole face. Never again would his pearly white teeth sparkle in his perfectly formed mouth. Never again would she look upon his rosy, high set cheeks or his rounded ears that made his face look perfectly symmetric.

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