Juliana,

I wish I could say it was love at first sight.

I wish I remembered the exact moment

we locked eyes, wind blowing

in your chestnut hair.

You were in your favorite yellow shirt,

the one with the sleeves slipping

just under the shoulder, your favorite jeans.

You always were so predictable.

But at the same time, you've never been.

To be honest, J, we didn't start out in love.

Our journey has been rocky,

twists and turns abundant.

We've fallen out, and we've gotten back in.

I don't expect to wake up every day

remembering how madly I've fallen for you,

but I promise to always fall again by moonlight.

Juliana, you're strong, and powerful.

You know what you want and you fight for it.

Even when lost, your head is in the clouds,

searching for a breakthrough.

You want the world to be better.

You want your dreams as reality.

You care, so hard, for those you love,

and especially for those you've never met.

You're determined. You're a perfectionist.

Sometimes I try imaging us in twenty years.

I imagine our children,

who they are, what they love.

Savannah's a reader. Jonah loves music.

They each have this piece of you,

a treasure they inherited

from the best person I know.

They also have their flaws, an insecurity

you've passed down, a part

they hate about themselves,

something they wish they could change.

They're you. But they're also so much more.

Like you, they're a constellation

of complexities. Paradoxes.

Do you remember when you were a child?

You had this fictional world, sound familiar?

There was another earth, an earth

where everything was in perfect harmony.

A Jonas Brothers concert was thrown every night,

math was understandable,

encased in water your world was safe

from even the harshest of waves.

Well, that's how I feel with you.

You still need a hiding place to go when you're scared.

I know it's a place where I don't exist.

I know that he helps you better than I do,

and you look up to her wisdom and her brains,

but what's important, is that you always come back to me.

You're committed. I'm adored.

I can't wait to continue to grow,

to fight for who I want to be,

and get to know you in the deepest of ways.

I can't wait to spend an eternity by your side.

I, Juliana, take thee to be my greatest love,

to have and to hold from this day forward,

for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,

in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,

forever, and ever, my love,

even in death may we never part.