My Wedding Vows - 1. My Wedding Vows

A~ Today is Sunday August 13^th 2004, I have just finished making you a chicken parmesan dinner with tomato alfredo pasta and you got tired and decided to take a nap, so I came over to my computer and decided to write something… something incredible… I decided to write my wedding vows. I know that we’ll probably not get married for many years but my plan is that if I write this now perhaps in a few years my words might have new meaning.

Recently I went home because I needed money and my parents were willing and able to bail me out of my problem and my mother told me to set some goals for myself and after a tear filled afternoon and heartfelt conversation later my mother asked me to set some goals for myself, my goal I decided was to be able to read this letter no matter what. Currently we’re cleaning our apartment because our landlord is going to start showing it to new people, I am looking for a job and you started working for UPS a few weeks ago.

We don’t have another place to go… and our cupboards are bare, and have been for several weeks now. Our roommate walked out on us months ago and I’m over three thousand dollars in debt. If I’m reading this to you now it means that we made it… and though I fight back tears writing this… I know that the tears from my eyes will be ones of joy, because that means that we made it and we’re still together. I don’t know what I did to get us this far, but I hope that I finally succeeded and that I made my family proud.

I have from the moment we started dating believed that we are soul mates, we are meant to be together, as my life has no meaning without you and you define my life. Everything that you do makes me a better person, you put the need the drive and the desire behind me, the inspiration and the love. I cannot imagine my life without you.

I promise to be true to you in sickness, for it was what brought us together and will inevitably send us away…

I promise to be true to you in hardship, because I am standing before you now…

I promise to honor and care for you, because you hold my heart

I promise to stay with you for all the days of my life, because you are my light and guide and I love you so damn much.

I am blessed by god to have you, to be able to hold you, to cry on your shoulder and to have strong arms protect me. I am blessed to have my family who has given me everything and my friends to support me. I am blessed to have support and love from my friends when many people do not support this kind of union, and sometimes it feels that the whole world is against us, by standing before you now it means that not only did we over come our obstacles but it means that perhaps the world is a little bit better place.

I hope that our friends are all here and safe and standing beside us. I hope that I get to read you this letter. I love you A, and with my family and friends here to acknowledge and support our union; I ask you A, to marry me, to join us together the way we were always meant to be, to take me as your own and love me as I have always loved you.

Cailen Vature