The Secret I Kept From My Wife Until Our Wedding Day

He's just going to pee, we wait, I think I can start without him, but he's going to come in after me, it's going to be weird. I'll start, and if he comes in, we'll phase him out. um yes this should take 7 and a half minutes if I don't cry and if I cry it could be it could be anything I don't know um first of all thank you all so much for being here today um a special thank you to those of you who have had to travel far away. To attend, we had to choose between holding the celebration here in California or in England and we are very aware that many of you have had to spend a lot of money traveling hundreds and even thousands of miles to be here and it really means a lot to the slight majority of For those of you who didn't have to spend a lot of money to get here today, don't be afraid to take those savings into account when donating to our honeymoon fund.

We don't blame you, that's all I'm saying. I've joked with SOI for months that it would be nice for me if he's back. He has returned. Well, there are other doors, but we'll go with that one. that it would be nice for me to learn some Korean words to include in my speech, but I looked at the Korean alphabet and realized that it wasn't going to be the easy task I expected, so please forgive me for how. As much as I'll kill this for the regression of all you non-Korean speakers, let's pretend the pronunciation was perfect.

Our relationship has been quite unconventional. Due to the geographical distance between our two countries. We didn't really have the chance. Start going out little by little to see how things were going. A few years ago, when I left England, I told my family that there was a girl I had feelings for and I needed to roll the dice and see if there was something special there, so I packed a single suitcase. I said goodbye very emotionally and went to the United States. I thought I'd be here for a week or two, maybe a month tops if things went really well, but that was the last they saw of me.

I fell in love very much and thank you. Added to a whirlwind romance were pandemic-related travel restrictions and incompatible visa restrictions, our relationship accelerated and we became Inseparable traveling from country to country just to make sure we could stay together the more time we spent here in California, The more we built our lives here, he makes new amazing friends and spends more time with his family and, in England, my old best friends and my family were still there, where I felt that my old life was still waiting for me, although today we are already married, It was super important. for both of us because today is the first and only day that all of you, who we love from both sides of the pond and from Canada, will be gathered in one place and it means the world to us that you are all here, so thank you for that um, I remember being 30 years old sitting with my sister talking honestly about life and I told her I would never get married,

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s were very big days, very expensive, all for a single piece of paper that doesn't even really change. anything about your relationship I spent 32 years of my life feeling totally ambivalent about marriage Mar and then I met soie and everything changed I don't know if it was her spontaneous dances that break out in the kitchen her uninhibited and contagious laugh or the most beautiful smile that I I've seen her once, but she made me feel things that I just don't know how to put into words.

I immediately knew this was something special and unannounced for our families. In fact, we talked about getting married before we even officially had a relationship that we didn't have. We hadn't yet had our first proper date and were somehow still planning our lives together talking about where we were going to live and what color tile we would have in our kitchen when we finally told our families we were going for a run, it seemed. As a hasty decision, our families rightly asked us to assure them that we knew what we were doing. My family asked me if I was sure, but to tell the truth, I have never felt more sure of anything in my life.

I had spent my entire life being a marriage s

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ic and then I met someone who changed all that in an instant there was nothing I looked forward to more than to marry him not just once but twice so he described our relationship brilliantly a few months ago We were lying in bed holding hands. joking around like we normally do and she said to me, remember when you were a kid and you had a sleepover at a friend's house and you stayed up late just laughing together? Well every day with you feels like that because she is not only my

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she is my best friend she is my happy place she is the person who makes me laugh more than anyone on the planet the person who changed my entire life in an instant and the person who makes me feel a kind of love that I didn't even know existed marrying her is easily the greatest accomplishment of my life marrying her is easily the greatest accomplishment of my life and I feel honored to have the privilege of spending the rest of my years striving to be the husband she deserves, please do me the immense honor of raising your glasses to everyone.