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Mel + Tim

Mel + Tim

APRIL 6, 2024

EDGE HILL, TAUPO, NEW ZEALAND

Mel’s vows

Tim, I am forever grateful that 7 years ago you made the brave decision to stop drinking energy drinks and start drinking coffee at the local coffee shop instead.

Little did I know that one week later you would walk into my house and practically never leave. It wasn’t love at first sight exactly but a familiarity that it was you and it was always going to be you. I’ve waited my entire life to find somebody that I could sit with in silence and still feel wanted, appreciated and adored and now that I’ve finally found you I understand why it was worth the wait.

Thank you for being patient with my mind and kind to my heart, for letting me be my authentic, messy and struggling self and still making me feel valued, cared for and never abandoned.

Thank you for your certainty, your safety and your grace while I moved into many different versions of myself and healed from things that you had no part in causing.

Thank you for not shying away from the challenges of parenthood and for teaching our boys how to become great men. You are the calm to my storm and my fixer of all things.

I promise to always be open to new adventures and to continue doing this life with you having no idea what we are doing but giving it a go anyway.

I promise to never question your need for tinkering in the garage until all hours, your constant new projects and your frequent hunting and fishing trips.

I promise to keep the baking tins full and that you will always have a hot meal and a safe place to rest your weary body when you return home. And lastly but most importantly - I promise that one day I will ACTUALLY listen to to you when you attempt to teach me how to reverse a trailer correctly.

Tim, I love you - but loving you in this lifetime will never be enough, so when the day comes that we can no longer physically be together, all your soul needs to do is look for mine. You will find me waiting, in a little cottage by the river, my field of wildflowers will have reached their way up to touch the sky. I will have left the jug on for you and a little candle in the window and our souls will laugh about how for a moment we thought that everything was lost when all we needed to do was look for each other not only in this lifetime - but every other lifetime after this one.

Tim’s vows

Mel,

I’m not one for words and there’s not much I can say that you don’t already know but thank you for holding our family together, thank you for loving me and keeping me fed.

I love you and I promise to keep loving you for the rest of our lives.