Ode to Our South Court Wedding

A recent bride wrote these beautiful thoughts:

"Two hands, Two hearts, Two rings exchanged.
The even merging of two wholes, not two unfinished halves.
We stand before God and Man
Our Spirits free to promise.
First to be friends, holding scared
each other's needs, desires and thoughts,
whether they match or differ.
We vow to love, without specific promise.
Love has its own dictates and cannot
be quaintly defined nor predicted for length of time.
Marriages are made, and kept, and worked on;
We vow to try.
We touch and kiss and by desire
have become one,
Forever."