My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.
We are all trained by Disney to believe that the wedding is the finish line, but the wedding is just another starting line. In light of this fact, we should quit the huge, fancy, debt-inducing weddings.
I know I'm a bad bargain. But I'm begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with you." He fought to steady his voice. "Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.
You can rest assured that I will marry... And I will also create my own family.
For right now, it really is the end. Hopefully in 10 years we'll all be married and have babies.
Marriage is like a 5,000- piece jigsaw of the sky.
When I got married, the idea of starting my own family was at the top of my list.
Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.
And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.
I don't know when, but I do want to get married and have kids.
