You may be wondering why Mike and Paula asked me to officiate their wedding. Me too. I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to stand here in front of cameras and talk about love. But then I asked myself the question that I"m usually asking everyone else, which is "what prevents us?" You can ask that about a lot of things. What prevents us from saying the things we want to say or for allowing ourselves to love or be loved, and you always came up with the same answer. The thing that prevents us is fear, putting yourself out there, letting someone really see you is scary. Trusting other people is terrifying. Looking at a terrible situation, holding hands, and facing it together, well, I guess that's love. So today we celebrate love triumphing over fear. You know, Mike and Paula met on the show, and I have to give myself credit. I saw their story right away, I put their head shots right next to each other, and I said these two, these two are going to bang. But it turned out to be more than that. I turned out to be a love story that gave us all hope and inspiration.

Nick