 | | sunshine after the storm, my glorious hope of a new day. What have I done to deserve such good fortune, such a prize as you? I haven't the words to express the joy you have brought into my life and I wholly and unreservedly take you as my wife/husband on this, our wedding day. I promise to love you, honor you, cherish and respect you always, until death do us part.''
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| | "___________________, I take you as my life's partner in marriage for all the days God shall yet give us to live on this earth. I promise to love you, honor you, praise you, serve you, listen to you, encourage you and stand by you always, even in times of illness and crisis. I promise to laugh with you when you laugh, cry with you with you cry and hold you fast beside me until the gates of death finally open and separate us."
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I would like to tell you about a couple who were married three years ago; they were ages 76 and 73 at the time. I'm not going to tell you who they are because I don't want to embarrass them, so I'll call them Horace and Emma. Horace and Emma were married to their first-loves for more than 50 years and both of them, also, were caregivers to their mates up until their mates passed away. Meanwhile, throughout all their years of married life, the two couples
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