A Message from the Bride and Groom

Thank you for traveling many miles to be here. We are so grateful for your presence, your support, your friendship, and your love. You are here today because you are cherished family and friends, and we desired your presence because you have always been there for us. This day should be no exception.

Our union is so important to us. We are best friends and the perfect example of how some find love despite differences, and sometimes in the most unlikely of partners. But you who know us best have come to understand our love is not unlikely or uncommon at all. It is not complicated. It does not waiver, and it is not contingent on time or place. Over the many years together we have come to find that it just is. That is why, although we made our commitment to each other long ago, today we do it again, with more purpose and understanding of the meaning of that promise and in the presence of you many witnesses.

Today we cherish our past as two and commence a celebration of our future as one. And we hope that, in this celebration, you, our family and friends, will come to consider each other family and friends also, and to think of each other with some of the love and affection that we have for each of you.