Funny wedding vows for a partner at a backyard ceremony

I promise to love you even though you once set off the smoke alarm trying to make 'a simple charcuterie board' and then blamed the cheese.

I promise that when our string lights fall down again — and they will, because you hung them with what I can only describe as 'optimism' — I will hold the ladder and not just film it for the group chat.

I vow to keep pretending I don't hear you singing off-key in the shower, because your happiness is louder than your pitch, and I love both.

I promise to split the last marshmallow evenly, even though we both know you'll claim the bigger half is 'structurally unstable' and needs to be eaten immediately.

Standing here on this lawn you refused to let me pave over, I promise to grow old with you, and to always let you win arguments about where the fire pit should go.

I promise to love you even though you called the fire department 'just to be safe' over a little cheese smoke, and then introduced yourself to them by name.

I vow that I will keep hanging those string lights with reckless confidence, because watching you catch them mid-fall is, frankly, one of my favorite forms of exercise.

I promise to never tell you that I can hear every off-key shower note from the kitchen, and to keep humming along badly myself so you never feel alone in it.

I promise to let you have the bigger marshmallow, as long as you admit, just once, that my fire-pit placement instincts were right all along.

Standing on this lawn I fought so hard to keep un-paved, I promise to build a lifetime of ridiculous little disasters with you, and to always, always laugh through them first.