and then he kissed the Bride

We sat there waiting for our turn. We watched as couples walked into a room as two individual people and left as one united couple (1+1=1). That would be us soon. we looked over what our vows would be. By all truth these were legal vows that we would be agreeing to. as I read them over there was one part that I did not agree with. the part read "till death do us part". I didn't want it to be for that long. I wanted it to be longer. I wanted to make this an eternal commitment. I knew that was impossible at the moment but I just didn't want to hear the words.

While we were waiting I received a page, it was a friend whom I had spent much time with in the last couple of months. I called him back and. he asked what I was doing. I told him I was waiting to get married. He asked me to wait till he arrived. So I did.  When he arrived I introduced him to the man I would soon be marrying. He took me aside and asked me if I this is what I wanted. He asked if I could wait. He spoke to my fiancée and asked him to wait. But both of our answers were the same, what for? We were ready, or so we thought, for this chapter so what was the use in waiting.

We were called into the Judges chambers. There was it no turning back now. "Do you want to exchange vows or just sign the document?" the judge asked. We wanted to exchange vows. We were asked if we had a witness or if one needed to be provided. I looked at my friend who was in the mist of trying to convince us to not do this. "would you be our witness?" He said yes.

I stood there and looked at the man I was to marry. This was it. This was my new life. we exchanged vows, we exchanged rings, we signed on the dotted line and then he kissed me as his new wife.