Apache Wedding

This is the poem read by Amanda Layton at the wedding

Now you will feel no storms,
for each of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be warmth for the other.

Now there is no loneliness,
for each of you is companion to the other.

You are two persons,
but there is one life before you, one home.

Turn together to look at the road you travelled,
to reach this - the hour of your happiness,
It stretches behind you into the past.

Look to the future that lies ahead.
A long and winding, adventure-filled road,
whose every turn means discovery,
new hopes, new joys, new laughter,
and a few shared tears.

May happiness be your companion.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead,
and through all the years to come.

Go this day to your dwelling place
and enter your days together.

May your days be good and long upon the earth.
Your adventure has just begun.