25.7.2009, pieni palanen päivästämme...

25.7.2009 Finland
Photos by Mikko Rissanen & Maarja Kotkas

Anni, you are my best friend, my partner and the mother of our child. For many years now I have known, that I want to grow old with you. Therefore I promise you in front of our families and our friends that I will laugh with you, cry with you, and support you as you have supported me. Through time we have learned to live together and time will make our love and friendship stronger. So, for me there is only one thing to say: "Yes dear, you will always be in my heart"...

Ulf, today I give myself to you in marriage. I promise you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give. I promise to respect you as a person with your own interests, desires and needs and to realize that those are sometimes different, but no less important than my own. I promise to keep myself open to you and share with you my fears, feelings, secrets and dreams. I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face change as we both change in order to keep our relationship alive. And finally I promise to love you in good times and in bad, with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know...