This Ring

For the past few weeks, each Friday I’ve posted beautiful marriage poems from around the web. This week, I’m posting a little early and sharing with you my favorite marriage poem of all time.

Keith and I were originally scheduled to be married in the Little Brown Church in Studio City – where Ronald and Nancy Reagan were married – on April 10, 2004. I’d already picked the dress, we’d decided upon the guest list and were just 3 1/2 months away from our big day.

On Christmas Eve 2003, just four months after Keith proposed, I presented him with a jewelry box which contained his wedding ring and a scroll with the following poem written on it. Two days later, sitting on the couch in the living room of his home he said, “Honey, why are we waiting to get married?” I was puzzled for a moment, thought about it for a minute and responded, “Hmmm…don’t know.”

Keith looked in my eyes and said with a smile, “Let’s go get married.” We called our respective families to let them know we were scrapping the wedding plans and heading east. Within a couple hours we loaded up the car and drove to Las Vegas, where the following day we were pronounced husband and wife.

I share this backstory so you know this is one powerful poem!

This Ring

This ring means that I give you my life

Without question, without doubt, without reservation

That I will always love you and never be untruthful

That my commitment to you will never waiver

This ring is my pledge of fidelity

My promise of honesty

My respect, my appreciation, my admiration

For the man who has loved me beyond word or description

This ring means I will always cherish you

Keeping no record of wrong, I give you my unconditional love

Forgiving you, no matter the mistake, I give you my unconditional support

This ring means all that was once considered mine is now yours

Arms to hold; hands to caress; ears to listen; a shoulder to rest your head

This ring means I will honor and serve you

Continuously dying unto myself,

in pursuit of becoming one with you

First and foremost, a child of the most High God

Secondly, yet most wonderfully,

Mrs. Keith Edward Weaver

To my love, my life and my rock,

I present to you, This Ring

-Fawn Weaver

Inscribed on the inside of Keith’s wedding ring is the second-to-last line of this poem, “My love, my life, my rock.”

Until Monday…make it a great weekend!

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Fawn Weaver

Founder at Happy Wives Club

Fawn Weaver is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 1 million women in over 110 countries around the world. She’s an investor in real estate, tech sector and lifestyle brands. When she’s not writing or working, she's happily doting over her husband of twelve years, Keith (and sometimes manages to do all three simultaneously).