Funny wedding vows for a partner at a beach ceremony

I promise to love you even when you're covered in seaweed. I learned this three summers ago when we rented those paddleboards and you fell off seventeen times in twenty minutes. You came up sputtering and laughing every single time, and I thought: this is the person I want to wipe out with for the rest of my life.

I vow to always be your sunscreen applier, your beach chair carrier, and your dedicated sand-brusher-offer. I will pretend not to notice when you steal the good beach towel. I will share my fries even though you said you weren't hungry.

I promise to keep choosing you, even when you insist on wearing that terrible bucket hat. Even when you do your crab walk impression at family gatherings. Even when you refuse to admit that I'm better at building sandcastles.

I vow to laugh at your jokes, especially the bad ones. To hold your hand during scary movies and scary life moments. To be your partner in all things ridiculous and all things real. Today, with sand in my shoes and salt in the air, I'm choosing forever with you.

I promise to love you even when you're laughing at me while I'm covered in seaweed. That paddleboard day was supposed to be romantic, but you just kept photographing my failures instead of helping. And yet somehow, hearing you laugh from your perfectly balanced board made me happier than any graceful moment could have.

I vow to let you apply my sunscreen even though you always miss a spot. To never complain about carrying the cooler while you carry the chairs. To act surprised when you brush sand off me as if you're doing me some great favor, when really you just like any excuse to be close.

I promise to keep choosing you, even though you're weirdly competitive about sandcastles. Even though you think that bucket hat is terrible when it's clearly iconic. Even though you count my crab walks at family gatherings when you should be doing them with me.

I vow to laugh at your jokes and then make them worse with my own. To be the one who holds you back and the one who eggs you on, depending on what you need. To stand beside you on beaches and mountains and Tuesday evenings forever. Here, with the ocean as our witness and seventeen paddleboard falls behind us, I'm saying yes to every adventure with you.