Johnny Gonzales The Wedding Ceremony Cocktail Hour Reception Guitarist

Romance, who loves to nod and sing, With drowsy head and folded wing, Among the green leaves as they shake Far down within some shadowy lake, To me a painted paroquet Hath been- a most familiar bird- Taught me my alphabet to say- To lisp my very earliest word While in the wild wood I did lie, A child- with a most knowing eye. Of late, eternal Condor years So shake the very Heaven on high With tumult as they thunder by, I have no time for idle cares Through gazing on the unquiet sky. And when an hour with calmer wings Its down upon my spirit flings- That little time with lyre and rhyme To while away- forbidden things! My heart would feel to be a crime Unless it trembled with the strings. Edgar Allan Poe ...

“I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.” —Rochester (Michael Fassbender (left) as Mr. Rochester and Mia Wasikowska (right) as Jane Eyre in the romantic drama JANE EYRE, a Focus Features release directed by Cary Fukunaga. Photo: Focus Features) “Reader, I married him.” It’s the most famous line from Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’ s classic 1847 novel about the tumultuous romance between Jane, a young governess, and her mysterious employer, Edward Rochester . Read more from Lindsay Lowe at Parade