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And you will always be my greatest adventure.

I Choose You by Sara Bareilles

Let the bough break, let it come down crashing
Let the sun fade out to a dark sky
I can’t say I’d even notice it was absent
‘Cause I could live by the light in your eyes
I’ll unfold before you
Would have strung together
The very first words of a lifelong love letter
Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose
you
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose
you
I choose
You, yeah
There was a time when I would have believed them
If they told me that you could not come true
Just love’s illusion
But then you found me
And everything changed
And I believe in something again
My whole heart
Will be yours forever
This is a beautiful start
To a lifelong love letter
Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose
You
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose
You
I choose
You
We are not perfect we’ll learn from our mistakes
And as long as it takes I will prove my love to you
I am not scared of the elements I am underprepared,
But I am willing
And even better
I get to be the other half of you
Tell the world that we finally got it all right
I choose
You, yeah
I will become yours and you will become mine
I choose
You
I choose
You
I choose
You

14. First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes

This is the first day of my life
Swear I was born right in the doorway
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
They’re spreading blankets on the beach
Yours was the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
I don’t know where I am, I don’t know where I’ve been
But I know where I want to go
And so I’d thought I’d let you know
That these things take forever, I especially am slow
But I realized that need you
And I wondered if I could come home
I remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
You felt as if you just woke up
And you said
“This is the first day of my life
I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you
But now I don’t care, I could go anywhere with you
And I’d probably be happy”
So if you wanna be with me
With these things there’s no telling
We just have to wait and see
But I’d rather be working for a paycheck
Than waiting to win the lottery
Besides, maybe this time is different
I mean, I really think you like me

17. Better Together by Jack Johnson

There is no combination of words I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a, shoe box of photographs
With sepia-toned loving
Love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it’s so hard?
It’s not always easy and
Sometimes life can be deceiving
I’ll tell you one thing, it’s always better when we’re together
It’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, we’ll look at the stars when we’re together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together
And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they’ll be gone
When the morning light sings
And brings new things
For tomorrow night you see
That they’ll be gone too
Too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I’d be under the impression
I was somewhere in between
With only two
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be
We’ll sit beneath the mango tree now
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together
We’re somewhere in between together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We’re better together

19. Make You Feel My Love by Adele

When the rain is blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case
I could offer you a warm embrace
To make you feel my love
When the evening shadows and the stars appear
And there is no one there to dry your tears
Oh, I hold you for a million years
To make you feel my love
I know you haven’t made your mind up yet
But I will never do you wrong
I’ve known it from the moment that we met
No doubt in my mind where you belong
I’d go hungry; I’d go black and blue
And I’d go crawling down the avenue
No, there’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you feel my love
The storms are raging on the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowing wild and free
You ain’t seen nothing like me yet
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
Go to the ends of this Earth for you
To make you feel my love, oh yes
To make you feel my love

 The Meaning of Marriage

The meaning of marriage begins in the giving of words. We cannot join ourselves to one
another without giving our word. And this must be an unconditional giving, for in joining
ourselves to one another we join ourselves to the unknown. We can join one another only by
joining the unknown. We must not be misled by the procedures of experimental thought: in life,
in the world, we are never given two known results to choose between, but only one result that
we choose without knowing what it is.
Because the condition of marriage is worldly and its meaning communal, no one party to it can
be solely in charge. What you alone think it ought to be, it is not going to be. Where you alone
think you want it to go, it is not going to go. It is going where the two of you — and marriage,
time, life, history, and the world — will take it. You do not know the road; you have committed
your life to a way.
In marriage as in poetry, the given word implies the acceptance of a form that is never entirely
of one’s own making. When understood seriously enough, a form is a way of accepting and of
living within the limits of creaturely life. We live only one life, and die only one death. A
marriage cannot include everybody, because the reach of responsibility is short. A poem cannot
be about everything, for the reach of attention and insight is short.

– Poet and environmental activist Wendell Berry

“Here?
Where is here?
But you understand.
In my heart
Within your heart
Is home.
Is peace.
Is quiet.”
Eugene O’Neill, Quiet Song in Time of Chaos

A Marriage
A marriage makes of two fractional lives a whole;
It gives two purposeless lives a work,
And doubles the strength of each to perform it.
It gives to two questioning natures a reason for living
And something to live for.
It will give new gladness to the sunshine,
A new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth
And a new mystery to life.
– Mark Twain

This for you by Neil Gaiman-A reading written for two of his friends on their wedding day

This for you, for both of you,

a small poem of happiness

filled with small glories and little triumphs
a fragile, short cheerful song
filled with hope and all sorts of futures

Because at weddings we imagine the future

Because it’s all about “what happened next?”
all the work and negotiation and building and talk
that makes even the tiniest happily ever after
something to be proud of for a wee forever

This is a small thought for both of you

like a feather or a prayer,
a wish of trust and love and hope
and fine brave hearts and true.

Like a tower, or a house made all of bones and dreams

and tomorrows and tomorrows and tomorrows

Obergefell v. Hodges (the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex marriage)

“From their beginning to their most recent page, the annals of human history reveal the
transcendent importance of marriage. Marriage is sacred to those who live by their religions
and offers unique fulfillment to those who find meaning in the secular realm. Its dynamic
allows two people to find a life that could not be found alone, for a marriage becomes greater
than just the two persons.

Rising from the most basic human needs, marriage is essential to our most profound hopes and
aspirations. The centrality of marriage to the human condition makes it unsurprising that the
institution has existed for millennia and across civilizations. Since the dawn of history, marriage
has transformed strangers into relatives, binding families and societies together.
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity,
devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something
greater than once they were.” – Justice Anthony Kennedy

These ones were some of my favorites

 

#1 – Our Great Adventure

We are today still dizzy with the astonishment of love.
We are surrounded by affection – by smiles and kindliness,
By flowers and music and gifts and celebration.
Yet they enclose a silence
Where we are close with one another.
My eyes see only you.
I hear nothing but the words
We speak to one another
This is the day we start our life together.
This is our new beginning.

–Pamela Dugdale

#1 This for you by Neil Gaiman

A reading written for two of his friends on their wedding day —

This for you, for both of you,

a small poem of happiness

filled with small glories and little triumphs
a fragile, short cheerful song
filled with hope and all sorts of futures

Because at weddings we imagine the future

Because it’s all about “what happened next?”
all the work and negotiation and building and talk
that makes even the tiniest happily ever after
something to be proud of for a wee forever
This is a small thought for both of you
like a feather or a prayer,
a wish of trust and love and hope
and fine brave hearts and true.

Like a tower, or a house made all of bones and dreams

and tomorrows and tomorrows and tomorrows

#3 Obergefell v. Hodges (the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex

marriage)
“From their beginning to their most recent page, the annals of human history reveal the
transcendent importance of marriage. Marriage is sacred to those who live by their
religions and offers unique fulfillment to those who find meaning in the secular realm. Its
dynamic allows two people to find a life that could not be found alone, for a marriage
becomes greater than just the two persons.

Rising from the most basic human needs, marriage is essential to our most profound
hopes and aspirations. The centrality of marriage to the human condition makes it
unsurprising that the institution has existed for millennia and across civilizations. Since
the dawn of history, marriage has transformed strangers into relatives, binding families
and societies together.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love,
fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become
something greater than once they were.”

Tangled
“And at last I see the light
And it’s like the fog has lifted
And at last I see the light
And it’s like the sky is new
And it’s warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once everything looks different
Now that I see you.”
Nightmare Before Christmas
My dearest friend, if you don’t mind
I’d like to join you by your side
Where we can gaze into the stars
And sit together, now and forever
For it is plain as anyone can see
We’re simply meant to be.
 

1. "From Beginning to End" by Robert Fulghum

The symbolic vows that you are about to make are a way of saying to one another, "You
know all those things we've promised and hoped and dreamed—well, I meant it all,
every word." Look at one another and remember this moment in time. Before this
moment you have been many things to one another—acquaintance, friend, companion,
lover, dancing partner, and even teacher, for you have learned much from one another
in these last few years. Now you shall say a few words that take you across a threshold of
life, and things will never quite be the same between you. 

For after these vows, you shall say to the world, this—is my husband, this—is my wife.

2. "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis De

Bernieres
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it
subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so
entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what
love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of
promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day,
it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. 

No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love," which any fool can do.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a
fortunate accident.

12. "Untitled" by Christina Rossetti

What is the beginning? Love. What the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is
Love. On a happy hill Is there nothing then but Love? Search we sky or earth There is
nothing out of Love Hath perpetual worth; All things flag but only Love, All things fail
and flee; There is nothing left but Love Worthy you and me.

13. "Buried Light" by Beau Taplin

Home is not where
you are from

it is where
you belong.
Some of us
travel the whole
world to find it.

Others,
find it in a person.