I married my best friend.
Danielle was 8. She read her first poem at our wedding.
Love is like two rooms
Two Happy Rooms
Love is like a horse and a cow together
A happy horse and cow
Love is like a person and a puzzle together
A happy person and a puzzle
That is why we celebrate this day
To show our love and out thankfulness to others.
~Danielle Hines
From Ken to Becky
Just like that
Song we’ll dance to,
Saved in my heart
For this very day.
It is not what is said
But, in context, how it is said.
“It’s been you” guiding me.
Turned around, saved, changed
From bachelor to father-figure
Just like that.
Love, in context with
Something more has taken
Precedence in us.
My present happiness, beyond all
Past joys to this very moment.
Beyond romantic lines and happy endings.
I want our lives to be
Just like that.
From Becky to Ken
Never in my wildest dreams
would I have thought
that I would ever meet
a soul as beautiful as you.
If someone would’ve told me
that in my future an angel
would drop from the sky into my world,
I wouldn’t have believed them,
even if they were psychic.
The things you speak of,
your thoughts, the way you express
and share your emotions –
all blend perfectly with
how I’ve always longed to feel.
If there is, indeed
“somebody for everybody”
in this great big place,
my “someone”
has arrived.
Expression of intent
The little things are the big things
It is never being too old to hold hands
It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a day
It is at no time taking the other for granted
It is to stand by your side and to sleep in your arms
It is doing things for each other
It is forming a love that gathers in the whole family
It is flexibility, patience, and a sense of humor
It is understanding and never wanting to be apart
It is Something More
I want to marry you.
Vows
I Ken/Becky take you Becky/Ken
To be my wife/husband
And my best friend
On this day,
I promise to love and honor you
In sickness and in health
In joy and sorrow,
Through good times and bad.
I promise to share my heart,
Mind and soul with you
And to keep laughter and joy in our lives.
I will encourage you
To achieve your goals and dreams
And vow to love and cherish you
As long as we both shall live
Through Ivy's Eyes 
