We met in [city · year], on a quiet evening that neither of us thought would matter very much. It did, of course. The light in the room was bad and the music was worse, but something held — a turn of phrase, a way of laughing at the same thing.

Years and conversations later — and one well-timed monsoon — we are gathering the people we love most to witness a vow before God, and to feed them very well afterwards.

[A short proposal anecdote, or a shared family blessing — two or three lines that feel like you.]