those are quite lovely. i hope you don't mind, but 30 years from now when i get married, i plan to quote you and use "urple-purple" to refer to my betrothed.

In a similar vein to the last commenter's veins, (though I don't care whether you mind or not) I'm going to go back in time and use your vow, word for word, in my own wedding, which was less than a year ago. I just watched the video for the first time the other night, just me, my wonderful bride, and the friend who's had the damned tape for six months and been unable to ever get the right kind of camera to show it to us on, all in a loving tangle of bodies on the couch, and while I was watching it I was thinking, "Man. I don't remember saying ANY of that. We picked those vows out - I remember picking out SOME vows, anyway, so I guess those are the ones we picked out, but I don't remember saying any of that. I wonder if I should've said something really more memorable?" And now, too late, I've found the more memorable words I should've said.

So while you're working on your molecular two-into-one entangler, I'm going to take my finished time-machine (adding the raisins-and-oatmeal to the fuel turned out to be the missing piece of the puzzle) and go back and relive...

Ack. Now that I just thought about that, I don't know that I necessarily want to relive that part up before the wedding. Man, that's some nerve-wracking business, ain't it?

hey I'm one of your ten readers. And I'm from Belgium!!
Why the hell are you coming to Belgium?
Oooh well it's your honeymoon...
Just Kidding...you'll like it. I happen to be married to an american citizen and everytime my in laws arrive here, they leave 2 weeks later with an extra bag full of chocolates and beers or other belgian stuff. Oh well. just to let you know.
Congratulations anyway and...don't worry! your wedding day will pass by so fast you 'll wonder "what happened just there?".

that's just the best vow ever. as someone who is getting hitched in the near future, i am utterly jealous and curbing my urge to plagiarize. only, i think that plagiarize wedding vows in a double sin. it's like naming your kid after a celebrity or stealing flowers from a strangers grave :)

Skot has moved beyond stealing flowers and now steals candy, hubcaps, and dance moves from strangers' graves.

Something there in the middle of your vows made me think, why not just say "I am he as you are we and you are he and we are all together" and be done with it?

And it's not too late to change your aisle song to match.

How can you possibly spend two weeks in Belgium? One wrong left turn, miss your exit somewhere, or accidenlty hold the city map of Brussels upside down, and you end up in France, or Germany,or Luxembourg, or Holland, or, if you're very unlucky, in the North Sea.
Belgium is lovely though. I've been there a few times after forgetting to get off the train at the right stop in Holland. Antwerp is very nice, and Brugge is a must-see (I haven't personally been to Brugge, but back in the Middle Ages it was an important trade centre. Now it's a town attracting tourists because it was a main trade centre in the Middle Ages.)

Hey, we're staying in Brugge! It's wunnerful. We will also be making excursions to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam so as to experience a fuller, more nuanced Continental loathing for our nationality. Not that I blame them.

Amsterdam! That's where I'm originally from, a suburb actually. No-I-don't-do-drugs-and-I-didn't-work-at-the-red-light-district (everyone always asks)

My friend's new father-in-law convinced all involved to play "Do Wah Diddy" as the recessional music for their ceremony two weeks ago. You are not without precedent!

Congratulations and good luck.