Falling in love with you has been the greatest joy of my life. You've opened my eyes to a world more beautiful and full of possibility than I had ever dared to dream. Standing here with you on our wedding day, I am for once at a loss for words, for no words can truly describe the depth of our partnership and the purity of the trust we place in one another, as keepers of shared dreams, deep passions, and gentle hearts.

They say that love begins with a metaphor. For me, it happened four years ago, in that small French cafe on Thompson Street whose name we can never seem to remember, when ten million stars lit up the sky, and I was struck by the realization that it was you with whom I'd move the world. Some people meet and stay strangers forever, but you were familiar from the start. I didn't know at the time that ours would grow into such a beautiful love, but I knew with great certainty that I'd found the other half of my soul and that we'd build something wonderful together.

As time passes by, that feeling has blossomed into the most special and sacred of bonds I've ever known. Our love is gentle, caring, and true. It knows no fear, no jealousy, no strife. It's a safe haven of truth in the midst of an ever-changing, complicated world. No matter where we are, or how things go, my constant is, and always will be, you.

You, with your kind eyes and innate goodness that brings out the goodness in me. You, with your boundless curiosity and brilliant intellect, who can speak with the same passion and depth of knowledge about capital market dynamics as you can about the fantasy worlds of anime or the nutritional benefits of superfoods. You, with your generosity and understanding, who embraces my personal growth and all its ups and downs with unwavering patience and a guiding hand. You, who believes in the dreams I keep hidden inside of me and helps them become our shared reality. You, whose unconditional love inspires and uplifts me, and fills me with wonder at its infinite possibilities.

Today, as we celebrate the eternal bond of our love, I promise to be the same to you:

• To nurture your dreams as they are my own;
• To cherish your heart as it is my own;
• To protect your ideals as they are my own;
• And to love you in every moment with all of my soul, until the end of time;
• For you are my true north, my soulmate, my home.

You are my truest partner in life, and my better half in everything. You are the person I love and cherish most, who reignited and permanently fuels my most positive ambitions for this world. I cannot imagine a life without you, or wait to see what we build, together, in our soul-kissed partnership.

We've spent nearly every minute of our lives together now for four years and counting, and you've used them constantly to make me a better person, for myself and for those around me. You've made me the luckiest man in the world. You ARE my world.

We share every single priority that matters, and yet despite that, our minor differences are so numerous they keep us on our toes all the time. I love this! It pushes each of us to improve on a continuous basis, and makes our lives so much more vibrant and more meaningful than I ever could have dreamed.

I use this word "dream" with eternal depth, because you ARE my dream. Specifically, you are my ever-present, ever-growing, ever-wakeful dream; the whisper of a future so fierce and beautiful that it lingers and caresses my past, present, and future simultaneously.

Our mission that we share is to live a life overflowing with purpose, creativity, and positive impact. This mission is so vast it could sustain us for ten thousand lifetimes. With only one lifetime I know for certain we can share, I plan to treasure every second with you to the greatest of my abilities, and vow to repeatedly push beyond those limits towards an existence that makes you ever increasingly proud of your own life's journey and decisions.

Today, we open this next chapter as a newly minted husband and wife team. You are my love, my heart, and my compass. Today, you are my wife, and once again I become the luckiest man in the world.