Today I marry someone who was a stranger 1 year ago. 1 year ago I didn’t even know you existed. It seems surreal. I wake up some mornings early just to get to look at you. To remind myself that you are real and that you are here. I can’t tell you how amazing that is. I can’t tell you how it feels to wake up next to you. There are no words to describe it.
But I know you. I fell in love with all of you. It started with your voice, from the first day that I heard you I was hooked. I fell in love with your personality, the small quirks that make you human, make you real. I fell in love with you, the real you. The you that doesn’t try and hide behind a mask, the fragile and human you that would vent about three bad days and let me celebrate his good days from afar. And then we made a jump – a scary and unforgettable jump to be a team of exclusively us. We made each other our team mate.
And then I flew. I stepped off of the plane, in a foreign country, only barely knowing a new language, and into your arms. And I knew from the moment I stepped around the corner and saw you that this was home for me: forever in your arms. I got to fall in love with your family, your culture, your country. I got to fall in love with the things that made you who you are.
And then you arrived, and I got to fall in love with you again. I got to fall in love with the little daily moments. I got to watch my kids fall in love with you as well, to watch you take to each other as if you’ve always been here.
Today I marry you. I take your name and I become your wife and I make you my husband. I make the greatest promise and commitment to always be on your team, even if we disagree about something, I am still on your team, I am your partner, your supporter, and your confidant.
Ek is lief vir jou, Edwin. Verewig en altyd en daarna. 
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There is nothing I would change of us. We will grow and mature together, we will change together, but the fact that we will do it together is the best promise we will make today.