Stick with it...
What
@marks is pointing towards, without saying it--
@Waiting on him is saying without pointing to it.
The angel told Joseph to not be afraid to take Mary as his wife. So when he awoke from his sleep he did what the angel told him to do.
He made her his wife. There is only one way, that happens.... at the ceremony, in the tent-- the union takes place, they come together and the marriage is consumated.
And from that day--- they didn't have marital relations again until after the baby was born.
There are even more details to consider, but if you'll permit me some poetic license I'd like to offer a small, intimate conversation that you might think romanticizes the situation. I hope it does, because it's a beautiful story. A lovely, love story that somehow religious people twisted into something awful for young Mary and her husband Joseph. It isn't awful at all. It's incredible without having to be unbelievable.