The quiet between the vows

I was kneeling in the rain at a wedding yesterday, lens pointed at a groom’s trembling hands — not because it was dramatic, but because he was holding his wife’s fingers like he’d forgotten how to breathe. The light was gone, the ceremony over, and for one second, no one moved. I didn’t press the shutter. Just watched. That silence after the ‘I do’ — it’s not a moment you capture. It’s one you almost forget you’re witnessing.