Our wedding ceremony was cobbled together with rock and roll and bagpipes and honest poetry, love and tears; there were no vows, except to bluntly say, “I do.” If the act of marriage itself is not  promise enough, then an oath is meaningless armor against the inevitable.

Bells Are Ringing

I DO NOT LOVE YOU EXCEPT BECAUSE I LOVE YOU BY PABLO NERUDA

The Chef and I are somewhere on this spectrum of cute coupledom:

Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge, May 31, 1921

Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in Sullivan’s Travels, 1941

Rod La Rocque and Lillian Rich in Braveheart, 1925

Bride and Groom by Amedeo Modigliani, 1915-1916

Garbo and Gilbert in A Woman of Affairs, 1928

Larry and Viv, 1938

Claude and Alice Monet