Scenes From A Wedding, Appendix C-D: The vows
And by somewhat less popular demand,
Sean's to me
This is the very first email I wrote to you:
Subject: You just drove away in a cab…
….and I’m left with wonderful memories in your wake.
Whatever happens next, I know this to be true - It all happens for reason.
Thank you for being amazing.
You’re in my thoughts, and some of them are naughty!
Sean
And now it’s been five years, and I still feel like it’s been two weeks. We still say ‘I love you” every day. You make me laugh more than anyone I know. I feel like we skipped right to the honeymoon and have just kept going.
I love you in many different ways, so I decided to categorize them.
I love you for the small things, like wanting to hold my hand whenever we’re in public regardless of what people might think, or totally being into taking an hour out of our amazing trip to Paris to look at pictures of kitties on cuteoverload.com.
I love you for the medium-sized things, like letting me convince you to have Pie N Burger cater our wedding, and have a Powerpuff Girls song as our entrance music.
I love you for the big things, like everything you did for me during Achilles Tendon Massacre 2009,
And most importantly, or at least really importantly, as you said in the Valentine you made for me, I was the guy worth changing your whole life for.
In response, I must quote Academy Award-winning actress, Jennifer Hudson, who, when awarded the Oscar for the first time she’d ever stepped in front of a movie camera, said, “This does wonders for my confidence.”
I love you so much, and I’m so happy to be your husband.
Mine to Sean
I don't want to use the phrase "love at first sight" because it's overused to the point of meaninglessness. But I did know that first night we met. I saw it all stretching out before us. I knew we would see each other again, I knew one of us would end up moving so we could be together, I think I even knew we were going to end up getting married - even if I didn't know it would be legal.
I knew that first night because something was different in the way you and I connected so instanty and completely. It's that indefinable something that I guess all people that have truly fallen in love know about. It felt like finally being let in on the world's biggest secret, that moment of "Oh, this is what it's supposed to feel like".
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. While I can't dispute the truth in that - I did propose to you in the kitchen while you were cooking bacon wrapped pork chops, after all - I would contend that there's another equally viable route - through his laugh. The power to make someone laugh is the power to make them fall in love with you, just a little bit. It's been almost five years since the day we met, and you still make me laugh every day - and everytime you do, I fall a little more in love. Keep doing that and I think we're going to have a pretty good life together.
Sean's to me
This is the very first email I wrote to you:
Subject: You just drove away in a cab…
….and I’m left with wonderful memories in your wake.
Whatever happens next, I know this to be true - It all happens for reason.
Thank you for being amazing.
You’re in my thoughts, and some of them are naughty!
Sean
And now it’s been five years, and I still feel like it’s been two weeks. We still say ‘I love you” every day. You make me laugh more than anyone I know. I feel like we skipped right to the honeymoon and have just kept going.
I love you in many different ways, so I decided to categorize them.
I love you for the small things, like wanting to hold my hand whenever we’re in public regardless of what people might think, or totally being into taking an hour out of our amazing trip to Paris to look at pictures of kitties on cuteoverload.com.
I love you for the medium-sized things, like letting me convince you to have Pie N Burger cater our wedding, and have a Powerpuff Girls song as our entrance music.
I love you for the big things, like everything you did for me during Achilles Tendon Massacre 2009,
And most importantly, or at least really importantly, as you said in the Valentine you made for me, I was the guy worth changing your whole life for.
In response, I must quote Academy Award-winning actress, Jennifer Hudson, who, when awarded the Oscar for the first time she’d ever stepped in front of a movie camera, said, “This does wonders for my confidence.”
I love you so much, and I’m so happy to be your husband.
Mine to Sean
I don't want to use the phrase "love at first sight" because it's overused to the point of meaninglessness. But I did know that first night we met. I saw it all stretching out before us. I knew we would see each other again, I knew one of us would end up moving so we could be together, I think I even knew we were going to end up getting married - even if I didn't know it would be legal.
I knew that first night because something was different in the way you and I connected so instanty and completely. It's that indefinable something that I guess all people that have truly fallen in love know about. It felt like finally being let in on the world's biggest secret, that moment of "Oh, this is what it's supposed to feel like".
They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. While I can't dispute the truth in that - I did propose to you in the kitchen while you were cooking bacon wrapped pork chops, after all - I would contend that there's another equally viable route - through his laugh. The power to make someone laugh is the power to make them fall in love with you, just a little bit. It's been almost five years since the day we met, and you still make me laugh every day - and everytime you do, I fall a little more in love. Keep doing that and I think we're going to have a pretty good life together.