A Wedding Promise
"The world is big out there so put your hand in mine.
When you are hungry, I will feed you.
If you're cold, I will warm you.
If you're sick, I will nurse you.
and if you meet with trouble, big or small, I'll stand by you, come what may.
When you speak, I will listen.
When you offer me gifts, I will thank you.
When you do well, I will praise you.
If perils and dangers come near you, I'll stand by your side and battle them away.
And if you're scared of a nameless fear, I'll hold you in my arms and protect you.
I promise that I will never harm you, or threaten you, or frighten you.
And if you should ever do me wrong, I'll try my best to forgive you.
When you're sad, I'll cry with you. When you're happy, I'll laugh with you.
I'll show you where beauty is, and we'll walk there together.
And when all the promises are made, there's still one more. I promise that I'll love you, whatever may befall."
When you are hungry, I will feed you.
If you're cold, I will warm you.
If you're sick, I will nurse you.
and if you meet with trouble, big or small, I'll stand by you, come what may.
When you speak, I will listen.
When you offer me gifts, I will thank you.
When you do well, I will praise you.
If perils and dangers come near you, I'll stand by your side and battle them away.
And if you're scared of a nameless fear, I'll hold you in my arms and protect you.
I promise that I will never harm you, or threaten you, or frighten you.
And if you should ever do me wrong, I'll try my best to forgive you.
When you're sad, I'll cry with you. When you're happy, I'll laugh with you.
I'll show you where beauty is, and we'll walk there together.
And when all the promises are made, there's still one more. I promise that I'll love you, whatever may befall."
Amy's Vows to Mark
Mark,
I fell in love with you through our courtship over facebook, email, texting and cell phone conversations and was in love with you before our first date. I fell in love with your excel spreadsheets and the quirky things on them, your memorization of the ingredients of your favorite Panera salad, your curious questions and your answers, but mostly your sense of humor, your intelligence, your confidence in who you are, the way you ask questions and really listen to the answers and the fact that it feels like I have known you my entire life. Since those days I have continued to fall in love with you for your amazing movie knowledge, your need to make catty comments while never wanting to hurt anyone's feelings, our shared sense of sarcasm, your curiosity and interest in the world bigger than us but mostly for your intelligence, your gifts as a teacher and manager, the zeal with which you tackle a project and the way that you love me and Caleb and Foster. I fell in love with you for the qualities, abilities, and outlook on life that you have, and won't try to reshape you in a different image.
As your wife and partner I promise to respect you as a person with your own interests, desires, and needs, and to realize that those are sometimes different, but no less important than my own.
I choose you as the person with whom I will spend the rest of my life. I promise you my faithfulness. I promise that you will be the one with whom I will choose to celebrate my victories. I promise that you will be the one from whom I will choose to seek comfort in life's sorrows.
I will take time each day to find a way to connect with you and to communicate with you. I will share with you about things that are more than just the logistics of sharing a house,paying bills, raising kids. I promise to keep myself open to you, to let you see through the window of my personal world into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams.
Your sorrows will be my sorrows and your successes will be my successes. I will hold you when you cry, celebrate with you in your joy, respect you in your failures, and cheer with you for your victories.
I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face change as we both change, as our lives change, as we grow and learn and explore.
I promise to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give. I promise to accept you the way you are. I take you to be my husband, my partner, loving what I know of you and trusting what I do not yet know. I promise to cherish you through whatever life may bring us. I promise to love you in good times and in bad, with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how ... completely and forever.
Mark's Vows to Amy
Amy,
When you came into my life last year, I was sure from almost the very first conversation that you would be a person with whom I would know forever. Every email or call or text that we traded was something special and I’ve never found an easier person to talk with in my whole life.
We moved (or I should say galloped) into a relationship pretty quickly and I fell in love with you just as fast. There are so many thing about you that I love and respect. Your smile. Your laugh. Your warmth and caring. Your ability to survive the tough parts of life yet come out the other side without being jaded or disheartened. Your optimism. Your devotion to the things that are important in life like family, parenting, work, and being a true partner. And of course, being a wonderful mom. I am thankful every day that Foster and Caleb have you as a mother and I get truly excited thinking about the future for all us (and perhaps more).
But my excitement for starting this journey together as a family starts and ends with our relationship with each other. We automatically love our children of course...but the bond you and I make (and have made) is the most important in our lives and I vow to keep it as long as we both shall live.
I vow to you, in witness of our parents, our children and our friends that I will first...be your partner. We’re in this together and I will always be faithfully by your side. Together we’ll make the decisions and solve the problems and share in all of the joys that life has to offer. Through tough and tougher. Through joy and laughter. I will be yours. Truly, and solely.
I vow to support you. Your decisions, your feelings, your worries and your ambitions. I respect them all as I respect you. You are an amazing woman and I’ll do everything in my power to help keep you strong, cared for, and understood. I promise to always keep talking. To keep walking. To share and listen and email and chat and do whatever I can to make our union last. Whether it’s through smoke signals or laser thought waves. I’ll be there for you.
Finally, I vow to love you. To show you love, to receive it, to grow it, weed it, to keep it vibrant and to always, always mean it. I love you for all that you’ve become and all that you’ll be. I love you Amy.
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