Ever since our wedding was featured in a local bridal magazine, doors have been opened for me to participate more actively in the wedding scene in Malaysia. I have been receiving the strangest request too, including a request to write a wedding vow!

How strange, I thought. If there were many vows that a person would make in his or her life, there will be only one vow which you can only make once – and that would be your wedding vow. It would be the most sincere thing that you would say to the person that you want to spend the rest of your life with. That would be your vow to the person whom you will wake up to every morning. And that would be a vow that will keep you together – happily married, as it was meant to be.

Looking back to our very own wedding, I had started drafting my vow even the week after he proposed to me! I wanted it to be meaningful and beautiful. We had planned to exchanged our vows during our garden reception, but we eventually changed the plan. We finally exchanged our vows at the only place which we thought was worthy of such event – in the church where I grew up.

My vow actually didn’t turn out as beautiful as I wanted it to be, but I am sure that I was being true to myself. And I am glad that I did so.

So to my dear friend whose name I can’t reveal here, I can’t really write your wedding vow on behalf of you. It has to be one thing that you have to write for yourself. It doesn’t need to be beautiful, but being truthful would be the best thing to do. And I know you can do it. And I will be there listening to you when you exhange your vow with him.

It would be beautiful, no matter what you say, because sincerity shines through even the lousiest speech ..