To continue to learn from you and to follow the examples of patience and respect that you continuously slet. To tell you every day how much I love you and appreciate all that you do. To help shoulder our challenges and celebrate all of our little wins. I’ve heard it said: ‘It is better to not make a vow, than to make one and not be able to keep it.’ Therefore, I know what this commitment means. I have never been more adored or felt more safe and the trust that we have built, that we have worked so hard to protect, is invaluable. Our relationship is full of more love and support than I could ever ask fro. It has been the biggest growth I have ever had for myself by far as a partner. This journey, this adventure that we’re on, has already challenged us as a couple, to work through hardships and obstacles, and to become stronger in our communication, in our commitment and to our love. I leaned back over and told them it had taken me 22 years of patience and slightly stalking you to finally get you here on a real date. Do you remember the couple sitting next to us at sushi? When you went to the restroom, they leaned over and asked me if the date was going well and if it wasn’t, they offered to cover for me while I ran. I still laugh when I think about our first date. We were kids when we met-I used to fantasize about this exact moment-and now at 33, I finally get to say, ‘I do.’ “Not many people can say they truly married the love of their life, but I can. Falling for you wasn’t falling at all-it was walking into a house and knowing you’re home. Today seems like it’s the start of a new journey, but I already belong to you. I used to never truly enjoy moments because I was always waiting for what’s next. I’ll choose you over and over and over, without pause, without doubt, I’ll keep choosing you. I promise to love, respect, protect and trust you, and give you the best of myself, for I know that together we will build a life far better than either of us could imagine alone. I promise to grow alongside you, but also to never grow up. I promise to join your laughter with my own and when you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark. I promise to stand by your side while you face the world. I promise to share my food with you, never go to bed angry and always honor your passion for the Red Sox… but NOT your passion for the wave. I promise to give you all the love and support that I give Ella. I promise to make sure I’m not just hungry when I get upset. I promise to never stop holding your hand. Today, I want to make promises to you that I will always keep. I love that you’re open to trying new things. I love that I get a kiss from you every time we stop at a red light. I love that you always push my hair back when it’s in my face. I love the way you dance to make me laugh. “I’m so proud that today I become your wife. You are my best friend and I’m the luckiest person on Earth to call you mine.” I promise to always pursue you, to fight for you, and love you unconditionally and wholeheartedly for the rest of my life. I vow to laugh with you and comfort you during times of joy and times of sorrow. I promise to dream with you, celebrate with you, and walk beside you through whatever life brings. So today, I vow to honor you and respect you, support you and encourage you. Even when the day comes that we’re old and gray, I promise to always see you with the same eyes and the same heart that I see you with at this exact moment. I take you as you are now, tomorrow and for eternity to come, to be my husband. You make me want to be a better person every day. You acknowledge my strengths and accept my faults. Your laugh is contagious and you can put away an entire Baskin Robbins ice cream cake in one sitting like nobody else can. You are a million dreams and a million prayers of a little girl come true. Love is a word that is much too soft and used far too often to ever describe the fierce, infinite and blazing passion that I have in my heart for you. Not the love of butterflies and stomach knots-but more the blurring of self and the entanglement with another soul. “I want so badly to be able to explain all the love I have for you.
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