The love I never expected to experience again in my lifetime led me to a wonderful wedding ceremony on December 4 at about 6:15 PM. Faye Dangerfield and I jumped the broom and became wife and husband at the new home of our niece and nephew in Altadena, California.
We exchanged vows and I have decided to post the vows here so I won't lose them somewhere in a desk drawer.
Faye's Vows: The universe delivers. I have had a list for years, a silent list of what a perfect relationship would look like. What a perfect partner would look like, i.e. tall with a beard, intelligent, secure, kind, caring, and liberal.
I knew you were the one when you began to care for me in Guatemala, always looking our for a seat on the bus next to you, even if I had a ton of junk to put at your feet. Realizing immediately that I get lost in large outdoor markets, because I want to take a perfect picture, or check out wines in the restaurant wine bar, when everyone is already on the bus. No judgment. You had only kindness in your eyes. Even my wit, which can be somewhat abrasive, didn't put you off.
What I love about us is everything! It sounds like a cliche', but we move in sync, we love to garden, to travel, to spend time in great museums. Our days are filled. What I love about us is that there is an us.
In one sentence what I love most about you is how you love me. I can see forever in your eyes, feel forever in your touch.
Love you most!
My (Jim's) Vows: I promise to love, honor and cherish you in each moment and forever.
I promise to be with you and support you through good and bad.
I will never try to hold you back in anything you do--except when you honk your car horn at people on the highway who might get urked and try to shoot us.
I will give you aid and assistance whenever you ask and even when you don't, AND I will hold onto you no matter you try to shake me off.
You will never have to become a haus frau on my account.
I will support your spirit of adventure and freedom and travel the world with you whenever we can.
I will listen and be attentive (as well as I can with my bad hearing) and always try to understand.
I will bring you flowers.
Last of all, I will protect your from Menchies.
I love you.