On the fifth day of the week, the second of Tevet in the year 5774, corresponding to the fifth of December in the year 2013, in the city of Somerville, Massachusetts, where their hearts first found home, the bride, Sonya Leah Glixman Taaffe, daughter of Marika and Jaime Taaffe, offered a ring to the groom, Robert Richard Noyes, son of Deb Knowles Jones and Worth Noyes, saying to him, "I am, as I ever was, and ever shall be, yours." He accepted, saying, "By this ring, I am consecrated to you in accordance with the laws of our people." Then the groom, Robert Richard Noyes, son of Deb Knowles Jones and Worth Noyes, offered a ring to the bride, Sonya Leah Glixman Taaffe, daughter of Marika and Jaime Taaffe, saying to her, "I am, as I ever was, and ever shall be, yours." She accepted, saying, "By this ring, I am consecrated to you in accordance with the laws of our people."
So each promised the other:
I will be your friend and lover, companion and fellow-traveler, constant and co-conspirator. I will love and support you, strengthen and rejoice in you, and be your hearth and harbor through all our travels. I will share with you all that I am.
We bring to this marriage our words, our music, our intelligence, creativity, and curiosity, our patience, our playfulness, our compassion, our desire to learn and our willingness to understand, and pledge to make them flourish in our mutual home.
All is valid and binding.
So each promised the other:
I will be your friend and lover, companion and fellow-traveler, constant and co-conspirator. I will love and support you, strengthen and rejoice in you, and be your hearth and harbor through all our travels. I will share with you all that I am.
We bring to this marriage our words, our music, our intelligence, creativity, and curiosity, our patience, our playfulness, our compassion, our desire to learn and our willingness to understand, and pledge to make them flourish in our mutual home.
All is valid and binding.