I am, as I ever was, and ever shall be, yours

[sovay]

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.

Comments

[sovay]

A heartfelt congratulations. May the two of you have many, many blessings.

Thank you. We're getting a lot from these comments!

[sovay]

I am pleased that your wedding day is a Pythagorean triple.

I will tell Rob; that's lovely and I hadn't thought of it. We didn't even know it was the ninetieth anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition until someone told us.

Thank you!

[sovay]

Mazel tov!

Thank you!

[sovay]

Many, many good wishes.

Thank you.

[sovay]

Wishing you many years of joy and discovery.

Thank you.

[sovay]

Joy and long life to you both.

Thank you. (The combination is important.)

[sovay]

Lovely. Much joy.

Thank you.

[sovay]

Wishing you both joy.

Thank you.

[sovay]

How beautiful. Congratulations!

Thank you!

[sovay]

Your vows are lovely. (Co-conspirators!) All the best.

Thank you!

(It is an important element of our lives.)

[sovay]

That is beautiful.

Thank you.

I would like to post some pictures of the ceremony, once we've sorted through all the blurry ones and the four or five different cameras including phones. You will recognize the coronet in my hair; it is your necklace "Remember What You Say in Dreams #4." It unclasped perfectly; it wore easily; it is now a necklace again. It brought the sea.

[sovay]

Congratulations.

Thank you.

[sovay]

Amen.

Thank you.

[sovay]

May you live long and joyfully together.

Thank you. We take all the benedictions we can!

[kate_nepveu]

Somehow I missed saying congratulations and best wishes at the time, so, congratulations and best wishes!

[sovay]

so, congratulations and best wishes!

Gladly accepted! Thank you.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh, I look forward to seeing those very much -- and am deeply honored that you wore one of my pieces. Smiling so big now!

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Also, props for the 1776/ John and Abigail Adams callback.

[larryhammer]

Heh.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I am coming to this in the wrong order because I'm behind on LJ, but: congratulations on your new status, and I sincerely hope there is no return of the fainting! One time imitating a Victorian lady is more than enough.

[sovay]

I am coming to this in the wrong order because I'm behind on LJ, but: congratulations on your new status, and I sincerely hope there is no return of the fainting!

Congratulations accepted no matter the order they come in, and there has been no more fainting as yet! I hope this to be a permanent state; the only Victorian thing I want about my life is the art.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov!
Congratulations to you both!

Lovely vows. I wish ye flourishing and much joy.

(I've already said something like on FB, but it's not the same. Apologies for being so late in congratulating on LJ.)

[sovay]

(I've already said something like on FB, but it's not the same. Apologies for being so late in congratulating on LJ.)

Accepted gladly whenever. Thank you!

[elisem.livejournal.com]

This makes me so happy to know!

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

I've been out of the loop, but congrats!!!