Friday April 15, 2005
Our Vows
As God enables me, from this day forward, I choose you, my beloved Zachary (Jennifer), to be my husband (wife).
To live with you and laugh with you
To stand by your side and sleep in your arms
To be joy to your heart and food to your soul.
To bring out the best in you always, and for you, to be the most that I can.
To laugh with you in the good times,
To struggle with you in the bad.
To solace you when you are downhearted,
To share with you in the joys,
To nourish you with my gentleness
and to uphold you with my strength.
As our lives unfold together I promise to be faithful.
To stand by your side in sickness and in health, and for richer and for poorer, and to always express my emotional truth and embrace you as both teacher and student as we do what God calls us to do, individually and in relationship.
I promise you this from my heart, with my soul, for all the days of my life and, if God wills, beyond the walls of life, and beyond the bounds of time.
Jennifer, these are the most beautiful vows I’ve ever heard. They still bring a tear to my eye. Pastors’ wife said she had never heard anything so beautiful either.
It’s like it was last week. (Steve seems like yesterda!)
What a beautiful day and wedding that was.
Thanks for sharing this.
Mom
I want the two of you to know, that Bob and I are very proud of you. We can vouch, that The vows you took on your wedding day, were not just mere words, they were a precognition of how the two of you, have loved and supported each other for the past 10 years. They make movies out of love stories like yours.
You’ll have to use your imagination here, because I’m playing and singing a song for the two of you right now…..it goes like this. (It’s in “G” Zach)
Such a feeling is coming over me
There is wonder in almost everything I see
Not a cloud in the sky
Got the sun in my eyes
And I won’t be surprised if it’s a dream
Everything I hope the world to be
is now coming true especially for me
And the reason is clear
It’s becaue you are here
You’re the nearest thing to heaven that I’ve seen
I’m on the top of the world looking down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I found ever since you’ve been around
Your love’s put me on the top of the world
Something in the wind has learned my name
And it’s telling me that things are not the same
In the leaves on the trees and the touch of the breeze
There’s a pleasing sense of happiness for me
There is only one thing on my mind
When this day is through I hope that I will find
That tomoorrow will bring
Just the same for you and me
All I need will be mine if you are here
I’m on the top of the world looking down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I found ever since you’ve been around
Your love’s put me on the top of the world.
Best of luck in future.
We love you
Yvonne and Bob
What beautiful vows.
Thank you. You guys are all so sweet!
Yvonne, as you probably know, I really enjoy the Carpenters and have always liked that particular song. Since you wrote this out, I keep finding myself singing it. It is one of those songs that always makes me feel all warm and happy, so I wanted to thank you.
I agree with you…we are very fortunate and have one of those relationships that people write movies about…from the moment our eyes met and I told my group of friends that I had just met the man I would marry. (they laughed…I was serious) I am more in love with him today than I could have imagined on our wedding day.