Our Vows

To those of you who have written your own vows or other emotional words that are meant to be performed in front of an audience, I bow  to you. This is a monumental task for most of us to take on and for such a reason I am proudly posting our vows for your perusal. These words are by no means 100% our own, but they have been infused with personality befitting their orators. Enjoy.

My vows:

I, Alycia, choose you, Matthew, to be my lawfully wedded partner.
Before these witnesses, I vow
to respect, care for, and grow with you,
through bright times and dark times,
as your ally, equal, and confidant,
giving the most that I can, to fulfill our lives together.

I promise to give you the best of me
and to ask of you no more than you can provide.
I promise to value you for who you are
and to realize that your interests, desires and needs
are no less important than my own.
Matthew, I love you because I know no other way than this:
where you do not dwell, I cannot exist.
I promise to love you relentlessly, always and forever.

This is my solemn vow to you.


His vows:

I, Matthew, choose you, Alycia, to be my lawfully wedded partner.
Before these witnesses, I vow
to respect, care for, and grow with you,
through bright times and dark times,
as your ally, equal, and confidant,
giving the most that I can, to fulfill our lives together.

I promise to listen when you speak
and actually stop what I am doing to do so.
I promise to uphold my half of our partnership
in both domestic and international affairs.
I promise to never take life too seriously,
because it should be filled with fun, laughter and curiosity.
I promise to at least try and be more eco-friendly.
I promise also to love, honor and cherish you 
for as long as I have breath.

This is my solemn vow to you.

"Before we met I was so scared of dying. But if the end comes today this will have been enough." (Source: aSofterWorld.com)

On the Origin of our Partnership

Call me Alycia. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no life beneath my belt, and nothing in particular to interest me more, I thought I would venture about a little and see what would become of me. Who could have guessed that soon B, the most particular and intensely admirable person in my acquaintance, would be the one to point me towards a life and a partner I could not have imagined better.

There was a puzzle and a dragon and a floor and as ambiguous as that sounds, it was unusually comforting to share those moments in such a volatile time. Soon, Matt became the figure I scanned for in crowds. The face I could not shake from my thoughts.

After a painfully patient courtship, there was a mutually agreed upon dependence that could be put off not much longer. And thus they were happily bound.

Side by side they proceeded through a number of days until an unremarkable evening came to a close. That was when things began to evolve, and with a bathroom proposal (to be expanded upon at a later date) they were set to create a new family unit. The pair were anxious to begin a bout of exploration and since they did not need much, arrangements galore began.

This brings us to today. It is not a complicated or tremendous tale, just the production of several simple decisions by two individuals so relentlessly infatuated with one another that they knew no other way.

Here within lies an ongoing tribute to the trials and triumphs of Team Smelkins, as they so fondly refer to themselves.