Playful wedding vows for a spouse at a rooftop ceremony

Up here with the skyline behind you and your hair doing whatever it wants in this wind, I want to remember this exact chaos forever.

Remember when we tried to assemble the grill on this same rooftop and you read the instructions upside down for twenty minutes? I didn't correct you because you looked so proud. I promise to let you be confidently wrong about small things forever, and to hand you the instructions right-side up when it actually matters.

You once said you'd marry me 'as long as there's a view,' so I booked a rooftop, found a florist who does well in wind, and only panicked twice. I promise to keep showing up with the view, even when it's just the one from our couch.

I promise to steal your fries, dance badly next to you at every wedding we attend from now on including this one, and laugh at your jokes even the ones that don't land, because you'll keep telling them anyway.

Here, above the noise of the street, I promise to keep choosing the ridiculous, wonderful life we've built — one upside-down instruction manual at a time.

Up here where everyone can see us, I want it on record that I was holding the grill instructions the right way up — you were just standing on the wrong side of me.

I remember saying 'as long as there's a view' as a joke, and you took it so seriously you researched wind patterns for floral arrangements. I promise to keep being delighted and slightly alarmed by how literally you take my nonsense.

I promise to always let you steal my fries, because watching you enjoy stolen fries is somehow one of my favorite things, and to laugh at your bad jokes first so you feel brave enough to keep telling them.

I promise to dance badly right alongside you, to never correct your version of the grill story even though mine is more accurate, and to keep building a life with you that's half ridiculous, half exactly what I wanted.

From this rooftop, with the whole city as our witness and no idea which way is actually north, I promise to keep choosing you — upside-down instructions and all.