Find Your Balance Together

​On October 18th, I officiated Meredith and Jaime’s wedding ceremony at the Las Colinas Country Club in Irving, Texas. Here are the remarks I shared with them and their guests:

When people ask Jaime and Meredith how they met, they might expect some grand story. Instead, it begins with something almost laughably small: a hip bump. They were standing in line, waiting for a drink, shoulder to shoulder. Meredith gave Jaime a playful little nudge with her hip. Nothing dramatic, no Hollywood soundtrack — just a bump.

Now, at the time, neither of them could have guessed it. But here’s the thing about a hip bump: it’s lighthearted, it’s spontaneous, it’s fun. And at the same time, it’s a little risky. You knock someone slightly off balance, trusting that they’ll steady themselves — maybe even steady you. In that moment, Meredith set the tone for everything that came next.

Because isn’t that marriage? You bump into each other. You knock each other a little sideways now and then. Sometimes you do it playfully, sometimes accidentally. But the real magic — the thing that makes it work — is that you find your balance together. You laugh, you adjust, you lean on each other.

And that’s exactly who Jaime and Meredith are. Jaime says simply but beautifully, “I love her, she fills my heart and I fill hers. We are yin and yang, sometimes ding and dong.” And Meredith, in her wonderfully candid way, says, “He has this strength, this gentleness, kindness, love never felt before. I am safe with him. We are each other’s best friends.”

They’ve both lived full lives before this moment, with challenges, lessons, and growth. Meredith writes, “He has taught me to ‘let things go,’ as uptight type-A me. He is the first man that I have been completely willing to share and compromise with.” That’s not a small statement — that’s the heart of building a real partnership.

Jaime, meanwhile, carries the steady lessons of his parents: to care for each other, to love deeply, to be there for family. He has lived those values with his brother, with his daughter Golden, and now — joyfully — with Meredith.

So, yes, their story begins with a bump. But it continues with something stronger: the daily choice to laugh together, to lean on each other, to make space for each other’s quirks, to bring patience when one of them is tired or stubborn, to extend kindness when the world feels heavy.

And so, our blessing for them today is this: may you always keep bumping into each other — sometimes playfully, sometimes accidentally — but always with the trust that you’ll laugh, steady yourselves, and find your balance together.