So like I say, I’m sat here in Shane and Jenny’s spare room thinking of the day to come. My cream suit hangs on the door , a hand tied bunch of tulips on the desk where I’m sitting holding a gold band between my fingers. For a whole year I’ve imagined placing this gold band on your finger, making a promise to be yours and only yours. With one plain gold band I am giving you my heart to wear. It represents every little thing I feel for you. The pure, unconditional love, friendship, loyalty, trust and passion. I haven’t been able to sleep at all, I’m so full of nerves and excitement. I also wasn’t lying in our bed with you. We had to keep to the tradition of not seeing each other before the wedding. It’s a stupid tradition if you ask me, but you insisted. You wanted us to start our marriage together with all the luck in the world, so how could I have ever refused that. I did miss holding you and watching you sleep. You see when I lie in bed you wrap your arms around me. I hold you tight and look into your eyes, seeing only you and me in them. I then close my eyes and say a silent prayer, a prayer thanking god and the angels for giving you to me. I make a promise to myself to hold you and love you with everything I have, until the day I die. I do this because you are you and I love you.

Alice, today I am going to stand in front of our family and friends and tell them with an open heart that I love you. I’m going to make a vow to love, honour and protect you for the rest of our life. I’m not nervous, nor am I scared. I am confident, calm and have never been sure of anything more in my life. I wrote my vow to you a thousand times over, each time changing it a little. I was never quite sure the words said enough, or expressed what I felt. I then realised that no words can express the love I have for you in my heart. At times it overwhelms me just how much love there is. I know if I were to open my heart my love would flow freely for an eternity. You are my life, my soul and my reason for living. I know now that the only thing that truly makes me happy is you. So today Alice, I am going to make us the two happiest and luckiest people in the world.

Well baby, im going to leave it here to get ready for our wedding. As you get ready imagine me beside you, holding you tight and kissing you. Hear me whisper that I love and think you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen, because I am going to be with you every second for the rest of our lives.

Forever your, Dana. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx