Dearest,

Recently, I was reading about a couple I know who had decided to write their own wedding vows because "the traditional vows were impersonal and boring". To each his own, I guess.

Personally, I would want to say the traditional vows because there's something reassuring and comforting about repeating the familiar words we have heard so many times before. There's something powerful in repeating vows that reverberate through the ages and have been said by so many before us. It reminds me that we are not alone in pledging our troth to each other, and that if they could stay committed and make their marriage work, we too -- with God's help, of course -- will be able to build a joyful, rich, and meaningful marriage.

I'd like to think that, after we're married, whenever we attend a wedding in future and hear the bride & bridegroom recite their vows, in our heart we'll renew the vows we've made to each other as we silently recite the familiar words along with the bridal couple.

Anyway, I can't think of any other better way to pledge my life to you than to promise to love, honour and cherish you from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part. That really encompasses everything anyone could ever think of, I'm sure.

Funnily enough, I've never been big on tradition, and often like to do things in my own original way; but this is one of the times when I actually want to be like everybody else, and do things the conventional way. (Gasp!) I really hope you'll feel the same, coz otherwise I forsee some FIREWORKS leading up to the wedding!!! LOL