I'm writing my vows.
I think I'm almost done though.
I think I got this.
I've done a lot of crying while reading and writing this.
So where are you?
What are you trying to figure?
Here. Okay.
And I basically wanna like say
that he makes me like appreciate life in it's moment,
I guess.
To pause.
Pause with him.
You're my Vienna and you're always waiting for me
reminding me to pause.
That's great.
I like the Vienna piece.
I picture you
savoring each moment Savoring each moment
like a piece of prosciutto.
Eric
I remember the first time that we ever hung out.
We sat in your living room
listening to music until 3 a.m.
And I played you one of my favorite songs.
Vienna, by Billy Joel.
And if he says, "Slow down you crazy child,
you're so ambitious for a juvenile,
but then if you're so smart
tell me why you're still so afraid."
My whole life I've been in a rush
to get to the next place .
Sorry.
My whole life I've been in a rush to get to the next place,
feeling like I'm running out of time.
I couldn't believe that day
you already knew all the words to that B-side.
And from that moment I realized
that being with you makes me not afraid.
You are my Vienna
and you're always waiting for me,
reminding me to pause
and savor each moment.
♪ Life is full of all grateful ♪
Food truck.
To tell you how much I love you,
I first need to tell you a story.
When I was a kid,
Nathan and I drove across the country
from here in Franklin to Los Angeles.
Frankly I was a snotty kid without a lot of perspective.
We didn't stop once to smell the roses.
We didn't even look to see if there were any roses.
We went through dozens of small towns
and I thought to myself,
"Don't they wanna get to the big city like us?"
And I was a fool.
Because they knew something that it took me
another 10 years to figure out.
They had found something there that made them stay.
Made them realize that their dreams
weren't bound to some place.
Now it's getting me.
They were bound to somebody.
For me, that person is you.
You're my big city bustling life
and my small town porch swing watching the world go by
and everything in between.
You make every place full of contentment.
A home.
And I wanna thank you for that.
♪ So we're back to where we started ♪
♪ Slow dancing in the garden ♪
My mom and my dad wanted to move out into the country,
so we bought this when I was a kid.
And we used to do camping trips out here
for 10, 15 years.
And then they decided to build the house.
When my father passed away
he left us all letters
and in all of those letters he was sorta like,
"Don't let the dream die just because of me."
♪ A feeling I can't explain it ♪
We harvested pretty looking leaves
and now we're tying it to other bits of a different tree
to make some sort of ornament
or I guess a creature that's not meant to be in nature.
The very first thing he told me
was contrary to the name and what you're thinking
Jay is not a middle-aged white man.
I was intrigued.
He told me that she was a very smart,
creative UX Designer that he had met from work
that he loved spending time with her.
And that she was hot.
♪ In and out of focus ♪
♪ If only for a moment ♪
♪ Take note of the unnoticed ♪
♪ Let go of the motive ♪
♪ It's time to smell the roses ♪
This is the Jill action figure pose .
♪ I can't seem to separate you from the air I breathe ♪
♪ Spoke the sounds just to find out what it really means ♪
♪ This is everything, this is nothing ♪
♪ This is something in between ♪
Jay cries so often that earlier today
she made herself cry because she was talking about crying.
I'm sorry.
I'm ruining this whole situation.
This is gonna be a real,
this is gonna be a real test of the makeup though.
Because trust me, you've probably never had
a bride that cries as much as I do.
I haven't met a person that cries as much.
Well like I didn't wanna be the only person.
I never told you this story before
but I remember the day
after we'd been dating for about a month.
We were eating lunch at work
and I spilled something.
As I dropped my dishes off in a rush.
As usual, I forgot something
and when I had to double back
I saw that you had stopped to clean
not just mine but the other messes on the floor
without complaint and never saying a word to me afterwards.
To me, that's who you are.
You are humble,
you are patient and you are selfless.
You don't just support me in my dreams,
ambitions or crazy ideas.
But you're right by my side,
making 140 wedding cups
even after the first 50 broke .
We've made all the standard promises together,
and even lived most of them.
You've stood by me in good times
gallivanting around Spain
and bad times when my father
got really ill.
The first letter I ever wrote to you
only had eight words.
Two weeks is too long to be apart.
You had just gone to Canada to renew your visa
and I was in LA for a wedding.
You may not believe it now,
but even then,
I knew I meant those words not just then
but forever.
So apparently I had to debase myself
in order to get Jay to marry me.
She's doing the Singaporean thing.
Not full fledged.
What is the Singaporean thing?
We just have to do something embarrassing
for a couple of seconds and then we'll open the door.
That sounds awesome!
I think They're getting close to me.
I think you're allowed to see them.
Tell us a funny story about you and Jay.
You're really good at this.
Jay and I went on our first like big date.
So we went to a pop-up dinner.
Then I was like, "Oh I'm gonna be really suave.
We're just gonna like sit in a park together
we're gonna look at the skyline
and we're gonna listen to music.
It's gonna be romantic."
And then I slipped.
And I fell all the way down the hill
and I just stayed there.
As if I was meant to have done that.
When Jay came into his life,
it was like she had been our friend
since we were 12 years old as well.
She's just as amazing as Eric is
and seeing the two of them together
as happy as they are
makes me incredibly happy
for the two of them and for the life that they're
going to lead together.
Not a single moment have I doubted
that we were meant to be together.
Being with you is the easiest decision I ever made
and I'm excited to be starting this new chapter
with you here today.
I promise to love you for who you are
and who you are yet to become.
I promise to challenge us
to be the very best versions of ourselves.
I promise to interact with strangers
even when you don't want to,
organize your life with too many spreadsheets
and pretend to be surprised
even though I've already read the end.
I promise to keep waking up every day
feeling like I'm the luckiest person in the world
and striving to be the wife
and best friend that you deserve.
I promise to make sure
you are at the airport way too early,
that I stay up with you until five in the morning
talking through how to be a better manager books,
that I'll always order the mashed potatoes
even if I don't want to eat them.
I'll watch as many rom-coms as we can find
and I'll bring the popcorn,
and I'll be your faithful pottery production assistant
for as long as my arms have strength.
I will be by your side,
I will keep you safe and do everything in my power
to make us prosperous.
I will make sure our spark stays aflame
until the day I die, whatever it takes.
And that's the God's honest truth.
Wheels, it's not easy rocking up
into a friendship group that's known each other
for nearly 20 years.
You went above and beyond spending this week with us
and after watching you and Jay navigate
the crazy maze that is planning a wedding together,
I have truly never been more confident
that Jay has a wonderful life ahead of her
full of all the love that she deserves.
Jay, you got freaking married!
♪ Wake up ♪
♪ My love ♪
♪ You've had to fight the fear when that creature comes ♪
♪ Feasting on our bones and blood ♪
♪ There's stardust ♪
♪ Inside us ♪
♪ We are echoes of the shadows where it all comes from ♪
♪ Ghosts of what we'll become ♪
♪ This is everything there ever was ♪
I think if our 16 year old selves were to look
at this day and at you and at us
they would be just so proud
that you've married this amazing person
who is unconditionally supportive
and you completely understand one another.
So Eric and Jay, congratulations.
I hope that you have amazing adventures together
and just more happiness than you know what to do with.
Five!
Four!
Three!
Two!
One!
♪ I come home ♪
♪ In the morning light ♪
♪ My mother says, "When you gonna live your life right?" ♪
♪ Oh mother dear, we're not the fortunate ones ♪
♪ And girls, they wanna have fun ♪
♪ Oh girls they wanna have fun ♪
Keep going, keep going!
They want more!