April 30th, 2016
Andrew, I'm grateful that you messaged me asking whether or not the world would implode if a rocket scientist and a neroscientist got together. I think it may be too early to tell. I knew I loved you from the first time we held hands while brushing our teeth together. It seems silly, but those little things are what leave indelible marks on the soul.
Here on our wedding day, I promise to share many more of those moments with you from now into always. I promise to work tirelessly to cultivate in the both of us compassion, generosity, ethics, patience, enthusiasm and wisdom as we age and explore together the infinitely great, the infinetely little, and everything in between.
Even when our bodies bend and our hands wrinkle, I promise that I will always try to see you, and to honor the divinity in you, of you, and around you. I don't promise to solve your problems, buit I do promise to hold your hand and to be there while you do. I promise to never let you sleep unless you know that I love you. I promise to be honest. I promise to somehow not to win every argument. I vow to talk to you about politics and other tricky subjects because they matter, but to only speak of them for so many minutes in a given day. I promise to point out snakes when you miss them. You are the friend to whom my soul is attached to as its better half. You are more dear to me than language has the power of telling...
Knowing that marriages do not fail, that people fail when they enter into marriage expecting another to make them whole, I promise myself to take full responsibility for my spiritual, mental, and physical wholeness. Loving what I know of you and trusting what I will discover along the way, I give you my hand. I give you my love. I give you my soul and myself. I take you to be my husband. I will love you unconditionally and without hesitation, for it is your compassionate heart that moves me, you spirit that inspires me, you awkward humar that manages to delight me, and you hand that I want to hold for all of our days
Brandalyn, here on our wedding day I humbly acknowledge the sacred commitment we are offering one another. I have a livetime of love and friendship to give you and I vow to always support you.
Today at this ceremony, the two tributaries of our lives join to become a stronger river. As each river bank has its own distinct nooks and bends, so too are our lives each our own, but now we will share the same rapids and slow lazy stretches as our lives flow once again back to the sea, where one day we will merge once again into the greater cosmos.
Brandy, I love you. You know I'm not a natual romantic or all that suave, but for you, believe me I'll try my best.
Brandy, I love you because of your inner and outer beauty. I love you because your emotional and moral centers are so strong and I delight in drawing from and supporting them.
I love you because of your tireless support of your fellow human beings. I draw meaning from reaffirming and supporting that commitment.
I love you because of your patience with my flaws, and your tolerance, sometimes grudgingly given, for how much of a goober I am.
I love you because of your quiet silliness. I love you because your memory and your perception are so much clearer than mine. Yes, I even love you because somehow, some way you always end up being right. So here Brandy, I give you my vows:
- I vow to always be by your side
- I vow to keep up with you -- whatever the adventure
- I vow to pick you up and carry you whenever you need a break
- I vow to be your number one fan
- I vow to place our life together above all other commitments
- I vow to acknowledge my flaws and always work on improving them
- I vow to never take a good thing for granted
- I vow to love you forever