Two ceremonies in one backyard, eleven hours apart in planning and about ninety minutes apart in practice. Priya's family came up from Philadelphia and set up the mandap under a tree Jordan's parents planted in 1994, which nobody had planned as symbolism and everybody noticed anyway. There were a hundred and forty people in a yard built for maybe thirty. The food came out of a tent at the back and I have never eaten better at a wedding, and I say that as someone who eats at forty weddings a year. Priya changed twice, cried three times, and told me at the end of the night that the only thing she'd do differently is start earlier.
