michelle & ryan

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michelle & ryan

6 August 2011 I Stellenbosch

Michelle LeonardBorn on 24 September 1988 to Basil & Alexandra Leanard.

Ryan Emile LateganBorn on 11 July 1983 to Stephen & Estelle Lategan.

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Today, I choose you Ryan as my best friend, my love for life. I promise you my deepest love,

my fullest devotion, my most tender care, through the pressures of the present and

the uncertainties of the future, I promise to be faithful to you. I promise to love you eternally,

to commit to you, and support you. I pledge to respect your talents, desires

and abilities, to lend you strength for all of your dreams.

You have shown me what true, unconditional love feels

like and for that I am eternally grateful. You are everything I need and

right now, as I stand here in this moment I know all of my prayers have been answered

and that all of my dreams have come true. I praise God for you Ryan:

for all of your love and constant friendship. I have no doubt that our love is heaven sent

and I promise to be by your side as your faithful wife forever, and always.

From this day forward, I shall be forever yours, with all of my being.

My heart will be your shelter and my arms will be your home.

As I have given you my hand to hold, I give you my heart to keep.

I promise

To the Love of My LifeIf there was anything I could do I’d do it to make you smile,

to make you laugh, to make you happy.I wish that the world could see how you make me feel

and today is the day I can show them how. Today I marry my best friend in the presence of family,

friends and a gracious, loving and beautiful God.A Gracious God, because He has brought us together

so that we may realise today. So that we may show the world that our love for each other has brought us to

Him and in Him our love will flourish. Today I promise that I will be your rock and your

protection in the way God intended me to be.A loving God, because he has given us this love to share

with each other and together show it to future generations. Our love is strong and has overcome all obstacles put in our path thus far and I promise, here today in His presence, that my love for you will not be

faltered. To have us stand here today shows us that God’s love for us is beautiful and that He will keep us strong.

A beautiful God, because in His image, He has made you. You are as beautiful as the orange sunset that tickles the

horizon on the breeze of a summer’s afternoon. Asbeautiful as the imagination that drives children’s laughter.

Today I promise that my vision of the beauty in your heart and of your soul will remain unchanged

until kingdom come. I promise that from this day forth there shall be no other, but you, my gold medal, my world cup,

my first place on the podium; you will always win the first prize. Today I give to you my heart and soul to join with

yours as we move forward as one.

From this day forward