Sandy & Phillip Proof 1

Sandy + Phillip

FEBRUARY 22, 2020 ALLELY ESTATE, KUMEU

Sandy + Phillip

To my future Mrs Kumar I knew from the moment I first saw you that I wanted you in my life (that’s a lie because I told you when I saw you, I was like god damn! She is nice!)

I still remember that day when I was sitting in the car and decided to give up on life but out of nowhere you came and sat beside me and just said “I’m here for you.” From that that, I know that I wanted to spend te rest of my life with you.

Your loyalty and love towards me made you irresistible to me. I loved all the long phone conversations, going to Mission Bay late hours of the night and just talking till the early hours of the morning before we both realise that we have work in a couple of hours.

We’ve had good times and bad times but each day I look forward to the next day with you, our next kiss, our next cuddles and our next adventure in life. But mostly, I am just happy to be next to you, being able to stare into your beautiful eyes and kiss your soft lips and tell you how much I love you and how special you are to me. You are an amazing woman and I’m lucky to have you in my life.

Sandy Phongsa, I promise to you that I will always love you, honor you and comfort you. I promise to always be your best friend that will always make you laugh, annoy you and provide a shoulder to rest on.

Babe, I will stay by your side always and forever no matter what life brings.

Thank you for loving me for who I am and treating me like a King.

I just want you to take a deep breath and relax because when I see your beautiful face, walking down that aisle towards me, no one else or anything else will matter. It will just me you and me and at the end of today, you will be my wife – Mrs Sandy Kumar.

I love you with all that I am, always and forever.

Your future husband.

Phillip’s Vows Today is the beginning of the rest of our lives. I choose to spend today and all of my tomorrow, with you. I wonder till this day what you see in me beside my shocking good looks...my dry jokes...or is it my perfect credit rating. But you saw something in me and I’m glad you did. Even now you see something in me even no one not even I can see it.... You have pushed me above and beyond my potential.... u have made me realise my worth and make me believe in things and helped to be vocal to be who I am. Baby you are my yin to my yang or the yang to my yin whichever is the black that’s you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you...raise our kids together...travel the world.... taste all the different food even the nasty as one you love to eat. But most importantly lying in bed laughing over nothing and kissing you goodnight.

You are the most smart, beautiful, caring ,loving and the list carries on...you have given me everything and I don’t think that I ever deserve you or our beautiful daughter but for some reason God and this universe finds me worthy of all this. So Sandy Phongsa this is my promise to you I promise to respect, admire and appreciate you for who you are and always try to get the best out from you even though I’m annoying when I do that I promise to persevere when times get tough, knowing that any challenge we might face we will conquer it together .... We got this Babe!!!

I promise to grow with you and build with you a better life each day as we learn from each other to be patient, kind, giving and always to cherish each day together. I promise to always love you more than I did yesterday. I promise to be a better husband to you then I was yesterday. I promise to be a better father then I was yesterday. And I promise that I will never stop being better until you get what you deserve.... which is everything.

Sandy’s Vows I never knew what it was like to look at someone and smile for no reason until we met, and I never knew how much you would change my life. We both had no idea life would bring us together and now today, I am standing in front of you as your wife-to- be. You have gone from being just a work colleague, a friend I could count on with a shoulder to cry on to the only face I love to wake up to every morning and someone who I cannot imagine my life without. We have been through thick and thin in a short amount of time and you have always had my back. You are who I want to build a future, family and a home with. I love you not only for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you. You have made me a better person and have always believed in me, always encouraging me to be the best that I can be. I love you for all that you are, all that you have been and all that you are yet to be. Peter Philip Kumar, today in front of all the important people in our lives I take you as you are. I take you as my husband and my forever human from this day forward, to hold and to cherish in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer. I will love you on your best days, worst days and the ordinary days in between. I can’t promise you I will be the perfect wife, but I promise to encourage you, support you, always have your back and protect you. I promise to help you and guide you into achieving your life goals.

I promise to patient with you and continue to love you for who you are, flaws and all for the rest of our lives. I promise to love your family as much as I love my own and always be there for them. I promise to laugh with you and cry with you, and to always comfort you. I promise to always be by your side, stand by you and never let you face a day alone. I promise to never take you or our love for granted. I promise to remain faithful, honest and true to you. I promise to be your biggest fan, best friend and life-time partner.

I promise to always put my freezing cold feet under your shirt for the rest of our life-time together. I promise to be interested when you want to watch sports and scream at the TV. I promise to tolerate your snoring, even when it gets too loud and I can’t hear my own thoughts. I promise to always find whatever item you are looking for when you’ve only done a man-look.

But lastly, I promise to fall in love with you repeatedly every day and I promise you will always have a home in my heart.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love yesterday, today and forever.

Jeremiah 31:3

Bridal party SANDY PHONGSA JESSIE PHONGSA ALEENA KHONTHOTHONG

PHILIP KUMAR ARNOLD KUMAR MUNITHESH RAO

Is this Arnold? His speech is quite long you may want to shorten if possible :)

Loyal, caring, sincere, honest, a great man… but that’s enough about me, I’m here to give a speech about Philip. Few months ago I was talking to Philip and he said to me “I don’t really want you to speak at my wedding but you’re the only brother I have”...so yeah...here we are! I guess I should introduce myself for those who don’t know me. My name is Arnold and I’m Philip’s younger brother. The better looking one ...His only brother. Blood. You’ve got no idea how much I’ve been looking forward to today. After all the time I’ve been with Philip, he has at long last admitted that I am in fact the best man. I’m very happy to preside over the only five minutes of the day Sandy and Philip didn’t plan. Sandy and Philip, it is an honour to stand up here today, I can’t be more happy for you two, so glad we could celebrate this day with so many friends and family from not only around this area. I‘ve been told that there’s people here from America, Australia, Fiji and South Auckland, Takanini and Papakura to be precise. It’s amazing how far some people will travel for a free meal. So thank you everyone for showing up, even if you didn’t I knew Philip would not let anything get in the way of marrying Sandy today and also the fact that we’re Indian and everything had been paid for. So, let me tell you a bit about my relationship with Philip. We met in the 90’s. At first I thought Philip respected me because he would do courteous things for me like steal money from Dad’s wallet and then give it to me... within a few shorts years however our brotherly rivalry intensified and Philip was already bigger than me. If you look at my mum’s wallpaper on her phone, Philip looks like he just had a bucket of KFC chicken yet he’s still hungry....and I looked like “Sharon never fed me”. Even till this day she’s always like “Philip needs his protein, Philip needs his protein”.....so I just starved I guess. Because of Philip’s physique, I avoided getting into physical confrontations with him, instead I tried to outsmart him. My favourite tactic was to tell him that he was adopted and then he’ll throw me out of the window or slam me through a glass coffee table.

As the years went on though, I thought the rivalry was dying down, a possible friendship was beginning.

I was mistaken though, I received a text from Philip one day on my birthday, he said and I quote “Happy Birthday, mum made me send this” Philip loves all kinds of sports, he use to be a huge soccer fanatic, his trophy collection was pretty big I must admit, always bigger than my 4th place ribbon collection. There was and always is a reason to admire Philip, just like many younger brothers learn from their older brothers, I for one cant recall anything appropriate at the moment, one thing however I learnt is to never abandon your younger brother at a bus stop and go play rugby instead cause you might potentially end up in the hospital with a chunk of your thigh missing. But enough of Philip and his Nobel peace prizes. Today, Philip is a married man, today is about Philip and the love of his life, his iPhone 11. In life there are people who procrastinate and leave things to the very last minute, like myself and this speech....and then there’s Philip, you can look no further than the planning that went on for today, Philip actually had his wedding website up and running before he even met Sandy. Sandy, you look amazing today. Philip, you didn’t even shave!...Sandy, ever since we met you, we knew you were a keeper. I have particularly liked you from the start because you always laugh at my jokes even though Philip would shake his head and call me an idiot. You are beautiful inside and out (I’m still talking about Sandy here)... you’re kind, compassionate, genuine, smart, caring, have more money than me and Philip combined and most importantly you make my brother happy in a way that I never could. With all jokes aside (and I don’t mean the one sitting next to you), I couldn’t have asked for a better sister-in-law. We all know that Sandy is a wonderful lady who deserves the perfect guy. Too bad you don’t always get what you deserve. Sandy and Philip, I wish you two all the best in your life together.

I love you both, mum made me said that.

Maid of Honour speech to go here - it is about 3 times too long, can we shorten it to a similar length to Arnolds? :) Is this Aleena in the photo on the right?

I have found the one whom my soul loves.

Songs of Solomon 3:4

Our guests SANDY JESSIE

ALEENA

PHILLIP ARNOLD

MUNITHESH

Four Five

One

Two

Three

SIP

GRANDMA KEN

CHRISTINE

DEBORAH

GRACE

BEAU

VIENGMALY

ISARA

MIKE

RAVIN

SIAMMONE

AARON

BABY LUTIA

ANDREW

GANGAIYA

NOPPAKHON

BOUNMY

NICK

VERONA

RADHA

KHANTALY

MUSAKEE

SENGKHAM

ASHNA

SURESH

EDDIE

SUNAN

NATALIE

SHAILLESHNI

IMMANUEL

MANICHANH

PHIMPHONE

JOYCE

JELISA

DANIEL

BIENG

CHANSY

ABIGAIL

TUANELLE

VISHANT

THONKHAN

UNKANEE

ISAIAH

RAJEENA

MINAL

KHAMHOUNG

JAMES

KATHY

SHAMAL

ATHENA

Six Seven Eight MICHELLE

PHEA

RICHARD

Nine KEO

ARNONG

BONTY

SHARON

RUJIPA

ADRIANNA

MALISA

NANI

PHAENGPHONE

APINYA

LUKE

REVEREND GLEN

GRANDMA AMNUAY

ARAINA

ALISA

PASTOR CARDENA

SUPHOT

JIN

KYLE

PASTOR HELLEN

LAM

NICKY

ELLIE

PASTOR ALAN

MINA

ROY

SIAM

MARLENE MANASE

PAYAO

BENJAMIN

MICHAEL

PASTOR LEVITIKO

HAMISH

SUPHAPAT

PASTOR LEONI

ORAVANH

Ten

Eleven Twelve Thirteen Kids RUBY

LYRA

PA NAREE

PA NAREE

COURTNEY

PAUL

PAUL

ALI

SEAN

VANESSA BRENDEN FRANKLIN

BUNCHUAY

BUNCHUAY

JASMIN

CARMEN

SARAYUT

SARAYUT

DAVID

JONO

PHO

PHO

ORAPHANH

OLIVER

PHET

SAMIAN

SAMIAN

TANIELU

ALEX

SIENNA LEON

SOMBOON

SOMBOON

JANNY

CRISTENA

TIPIEW MAGNOLIA

PHAKPHUM

PHAKPHUM

SULEMAN

ELLA

PRANEE

PRANEE

SINEAD

TABITHA

TEDDY

HAIDEN

TANYA

CYRUS AVA

Be completely humble and gentle; bearing with one another in love.

Ephesians 4:2

made with love by

keepsake.

made with love by

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