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Mel + Tim

Mel + Tim APRIL 6, 2024 E D G E H I L L , TA U P O , N E W Z E A L A N D

Mel’s vows Tim, I am forever grateful that 7 years ago you made the brave decision to stop drinking energy drinks and star t drinking coffee at the local coffee shop instead.

Little did I know that one week later you would walk into my house and practically never leave. It wasn’t love at first sight exactly but a familiarity that it was you and it was always going to be you. I’ve waited my entire life to find somebody that I could sit with in silence and still feel wanted, appreciated and adored and now that I’ve finally found you I understand why it was wor th the wait.

Thank you for being patient with my mind and kind to my hear t, for letting me be my authentic, messy and struggling self and still making me feel valued, cared for and never abandoned.

Thank you for your cer tainty, your safety and your grace while I moved into many different versions of myself and healed from things that you had no par t in causing.

Thank you for not shying away from the challenges of parenthood and for teaching our boys how to become great men. You are the calm to my storm and my fixer of all things.

I promise to always be open to new adventures and to continue doing this life with you having no idea what we are doing but giving it a go anyway.

I promise to never question your need for tinkering in the garage until all hours, your constant new projects and your frequent hunting and fishing trips.

I promise to keep the baking tins full and that you will always have a hot meal and a safe place to rest your wear y body when you return home. And lastly but most impor tantly - I promise that one day I will ACTUALLY listen to to you when you attempt to teach me how to reverse a trailer correctly.

Tim, I love you - but loving you in this lifetime will never be enough, so when the day comes that we can no longer physically be together, all your soul needs to do is look for mine. You will find me waiting, in a little cottage by the river, my field of wildflowers will have reached their way up to touch the sky. I will have left the jug on for you and a little candle in the window and our souls will laugh about how for a moment we thought that ever ything was lost when all we needed to do was look for each other not only in this lifetime - but ever y other lifetime after this one.

Tim’s vows Mel, I’m not one for words and there’s not much I can say that you don’t already know but thank you for holding our family together, thank you for loving me and keeping me fed.

I love you and I promise to keep loving you for the rest of our lives.

Leather and Lace

BY STEVIE NICKS AND DON HENLEY Is love so fragile

Could you ever love a man like me?

And the hear t so hollow?

And you were right

Shatter with words

When I walked into your house

Impossible to follow

I knew I'd never want to leave

Saying I'm fragile

Sometimes I'm a strong man

I tr y not to be

Sometimes cold and scared

I search only

And sometimes I cr y

For something I can't see

But that time I saw you

I have my own life

Knew with you to light my nights

And I am stronger

Somehow I'd get by

Than you know

Lovers forever, face to face

But I carr y this feeling

My city or mountains

When you walked into my house

Stay with me, stay

That you won't be walking out the door

I need you to love me

Still I carr y this feeling

I need you today

When you walked into my house

Give to me your leather

That you won't be walking out the door

Take from me my lace

Lovers forever, face to face

Lovers forever, face to face

My city or mountains

My city or mountains

Stay with me, stay

Stay with me, stay

I need you to love me

I need you to love me

I need you today

I need you today

Give to me your leather

Give to me your leather

Take from me my lace

Take from me my lace

You in the moonlight

Take from me my lace

With your sleepy eyes

Take from me my lace

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