And she'd kiss me, and I'd smile the giddy smile that you can see in all the photographs of me from those years, a goofy grin that never left my face, not even when I was reciting my wedding vows.
Just as they assume you want a child--and ask you when you plan to have one--as soon as you finish reciting your wedding vows or turn 18, whichever comes first.
One wedding guest was killed and more than a dozen were hurt Saturday when a gust of wind uprooted a tent moments after a couple recited their wedding vows.
Last Saturday, the brick path that winds through the site was scattered with rose petals, white streamers hung from the pergola Mr. Young rebuilt with volunteers from Thessalonica Christian Church, and a couple recited their wedding vows on the small bridge.
He never recited their wedding vows to me, but it went through my head when I heard about his decision.
While many couples choose to recite standard wedding vows -- for example, "To have and to hold, 'til death do us part" -- some couples opt to write their own vows and make promises that are specific to their relationships.
But the wedding vows they recited promised not "until death do us part," but "until distance" — or, as one black minister bluntly put it, "the white man" — "do us part".
And the couples we have been lucky enough to marry have been young and old, rich and poor, sick and healthy -- just like the words in the wedding vows they recite.
The wedding vows having been recited, everyone repaired to a reception.
I can still remember standing at the gazebo and listening to the waves crashing on the beach to quiet my nerves as my father read our wedding vows for us to recite.
Others exchanged wedding vows or scattered ashes of deceased relatives.
