Our vows:
Mel -
Expressing my feelings has never come easily for me, so I know that we must be right together if I can stand before our friends and family and declare my love for you. You are my best friend and I promise to love, trust, support and protect you for the rest of our lives.
Kelsey -
In the last four years you have helped me become myself. Your warmth and support have given me the strength to be vulnerable, to accept and give love. You are my best friend and I promise to love, trust, support and respect you for the rest of my life.
Info about the music in our ceremony:Processional - Chanson d'amour - Song of Love by Gabriel Fauré
Patty Mitchell on oboe,
James Vita on guitar
Translation:
I love your eyes, I love your forehead,
oh my rebellious and fierce one.
I love your eyes, I love your mouth
on which my kisses will tire themselves out.
I love your voice, I love the strange
gracefulness of everything you say,
oh my rebellious one, my dear angel,
my hell and my paradise!
I love your eyes and your forehead;
I love all that makes you beautiful,
from your feet to your hair,
you to whom my hopeful pleas ascend!
During the ceremony - "What are you Doing the Rest of your Life?"
Jameson Mitchell on vocals,
James Vita on guitar
Lyrics:
What are you doing the rest of your life?
North and South and East and West of your life.
I have only one request of your life,
that you spend it all with me
All the seasons and the times of your days,
all the nickels and the dimes of your days.
Let the reasons and the rhymes of your days
all begin and end with me.
I want to see your face in every kind of light,
in fields of dawn and forests of the night.
And when you stand before the candles on a cake,
oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make
Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes,
in the world of love you keep in your eyes.
I'll awaken what's asleep in your eyes.
It may take a kiss or two.
Through all of my life,
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall of my life.
All I ever will recall of my life
is all of my life with you.Recessional - "As Long as I Live"
Recording of performance by Ella Fitzgerald
Lyrics:
Maybe I can't live to love you as long as I want to.
Life isn't long enough baby,
but I can love you as long as I live.
Maybe I can't give you diamonds and things like I want to,
but I can promise you, baby,
I'm gonna want to as long as I live.
I never cared, but now I'm scared, I won't live long enough.
That's why I wear my rubbers when it rains
and eat an apple every day then see the doctor anyway.
What if I can't live to love you as long as I want to.
Long as I promise you, baby,
I'm gonna love you as long I live.
I'll even wear long underwear, when winter breezes blow.
I'm gonna take good care of me because,
a sneeze or two might mean the flu,
and that would never never do
What if I can't live to love you as long as I want to.
Long as I promise you, baby,
I'm gonna love you as long I live.
