Well, you guys here it is: My first blog post as a MARRIED WOMAN!

As I settle into being a wife, later this week I promise that I will share pics and detailed thoughts on our nuptials [which were AMAZING by the way!]. However, to keep you all tantalized, I wanted to start with the first installment of two pieces: Our wedding vows.

Here are Greg’s wedding vows to me. I am sharing them with you and the world so that the non-believers, the cynics, the hurt, the tormented, and the lonely can look within and find that special place knowing that true and beautiful, real love does exist and when you least expect it, it finds you. Enjoy!

Greg to Arielle 6/20/15:

How Do I Know I Love You

Arielle, when sitting down to write my vows I was torn on which way to go. And then it hit me…while I always have told you I love you and what you mean to me you always asked me HOW DO YOU KNOW that YOU LOVE ME. And I always told you I don’t know how to put it into words, I just can’t explain it. My love for you is that feeling you get deep in the pit of your stomach that gives you butterflies. It is looking at the clock when I am at working counting down the minutes for when I can come home and see your face and give you a 20 second hug. It is accepting the fact that all my sheets on the bed will be purple because your hair bleeds on them. It is knowing that I would sacrifice my own happiness and well-being to ensure your happiness and make you feel like you rule the world.   The moment I saw you hobble into my life, since you were on crutches, on November 19^th 2013, I knew I was going to be with you. Within a week, I knew deep down inside that you were my other half. And finally, a few weeks later when we went to Howell At The Moon for your friends’ birthday I had fallen in love with you.

Recently when we met with Rabbi Bassin and we read Genesis 2:18 The Partnership of Marriage, it all became clear. Now I can put into words how I know that I love you.   We learned about the concept of Ezer Kenegdo and how G-D intended for partners to be opposite one another in an effort to balance the other. I love you because you are my EZER, my strength, when I am weak and when I need support you are there to lift me up and push me to be the best man I can be. You are my NEGDO, my equal or metaphorical Otherness who stands across from me to watch over me and to love me when I am unable to love myself. And as G-D intended I am those things for you as well.   You are the other half of OUR Awesomeness and that’s why we are a team.

I love you because you are beautiful, your smile is bright and fills my heart with joy. Your laugh warms my spirit and makes me feel whole. I love you because you are YOU. There is no other Arielle Miller and soon to be Arielle Cohen and there is not one ounce of Arielle that I would ever change or make different. I know I love you because I would walk through HELL to find you if you were ever lost. I love you because you ARE my family, you ARE MY reflection and you ARE my other half.