The Wedding Menu (Love & Other Recipes)

by Letizia Lorini

“He asked me to sit in his chair so he’d have an excuse to talk to you. He said you were the most beautiful woman he’d ever seen.”

“It was the way he looked at me. I didn’t recognize it right there and then—it took me a while, actually. But it was like he’d been searching for me his whole life.”

Answer the phone. I know we’re done, but let me hear your voice one last time.

“I wondered when exactly it started. If all of it, all along, was love. And I realized, since I met you, you never left my mind.”

“You’ve become my best friend, and my home, and my safe place, and at the same time, my craziest adventure. Until at some point, you weren’t just in my life. You were all of it.”