I have always loved the idea of wedding vows. No matter how the marriage ends, imagine loving someone so much that you write several words and read it out in front of hundreds of people. While I don’t see myself getting to do this anytime soon, I will pen this down for the man who is apparently meant for me.

Dear you,

It’s November 24th, 2025 and I’m in my apartment alone. My eyes are tired as I write this- but what’s tired when it comes to love right? So here goes:

This might be several years later as I stand in front of you today

Draped in my Sabyasachi wedding saree and you in your Manish Malhotra wedding outfit

I know it’s real because we have our closest people right here with us

But also because my heart’s finally at ease

It’s not racing anymore. It’s finally resting, knowing that I have found someone who’s kind to my heart and soul

You’re someone who loves me like it’s breathing and is stubborn enough to love me on days when I’m being difficult

You listen to me talk endlessly about Taylor and her lyricism and know that I’ll always love her a teeny bit more than I love you.

You’re my Chandler telling me that the world can call me high maintenance but you like maintaining me

You’re my Jake surprising me just when I thought you have lost the ability to surprise me, by proposing me out of the blue!

You’re my Ted who will steal the Blue French Horn just because I stated once I liked it

You’re my Travis because you’re my human exclamation point!

You’re the person who makes me say that I’ll marry you with paper rings even when I love shiny things

And you’re nerdy enough to understand all of this!

I’m nowhere close to being Monica, Amy, Robin or Taylor- but I am good at being one thing- and that’s yours.

I’m grateful to have found you in this mayhem called life

You’re everything my heart had hoped for. You’re the person I’ve been writing about since I was a teenager going to college.

You’re the person who makes me laugh and cry from it.

You’re the person who comes up to me and says “Let’s figure this out” because the love we have is greater than whatever argument we had.

You’re the person who makes me fall in love with literature more because I see how you light up when we talk about Dostoevsky or Kafka or Plath.

You’re my person.

I guess what I’m trying to say is you’re everything and more

And nothing like the ones I have met before.

From yours,

Penny ♥️

I am no where close to finding love like this as I write this. But I really hope that when I finally find you, my life sounds like this. That you sound like exactly what I’ve written here. And if you’re reading this right now, I hope our paths cross soon- because I can’t wait to meet the man who makes my life sound like peace.