14Shari at 2014-10-12 09:17:22:

Text of vow: Paige: I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, to agree to disagree on red velvet cake, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home. Leo: Wow, you set the bargain high. Did you write your vows on a menu? Paige: yeah, why? Leo shows his menu. Leo: I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. And to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other. Youtube clip: http://youtu.be/F1IL6aH-GIA My notes: They are young and full of life. They have no idea that life will challenge them severely after a car accident to hold onto the promises they made to each other in their beautiful vow, and fight hard for each other. The way I see it is that the vow is a set-up that has to be paid-off in the movie.

James Schramm at 2014-10-13 11:52:17:

One of my favorite marriage scenes is from Braveheart. Script text (earlier version): EXT. MARION'S HOUSE - NIGHT Marion slips out of the house and runs to the trees, where William waits with horses. She fetches a bundle she's stashed in the crook of a tree, and they mount and ride off. EXT. RUINS OF AN ANCIENT CHURCH - NIGHT The church is at the base of the precipice, beside the loch. INT. THE CHURCH - NIGHT This ancient Gaelic place of worship has been destroyed by the occupying army, and yet it looks devoutly holy this way, lit only by candles and moonlight through the open roof. The village PRIEST whom we saw at the wedding celebration is waiting at the altar. Marion steps into the confessional, as William moves to the altar and kneels in prayer. Marion emerges; she's changed into the wedding dress she made from the cloth she bought. William stands and watches her float down the aisle; his whole life was worth this moment. Together, the two lovers turn to the priest. PRIEST You have come to pledge, each to the other, before Almighty God. From within his shirt, William withdraws a strip of cloth woven in his family tartan. He and Marion each lift a hand to the priest, and he binds their wrists with the cloth. WILLIAM I will love you my whole life. You and no other. From her dress she takes a handmade handkerchief, embroidered with a thistle to look like the one she first gave him those years ago. MARION And I you. You and no other. Forever. The Priest waits for them to go on, but neither can; they're too taken with emotion, looking at each other. The Priest intones holy phrases... PRIEST Agus bhayd lauch... The Lord bless and keep thy love, now and forever. The lovers kiss. As they break their embrace, a figure carrying something dark and spiky appears at the broken door of the church, and William spins as if to attack, but the Priest catches his arm; they see the man carries bagpipes. PRIEST I trust him -- or I'd'a killed him me'self. A weddin' needs pipes. The piper begins to play, and the tune from his primitive chanter is wispy, ethereal, beautiful. The lovers look into each other's eyes, as the single melody of the pipes merges into a swell of music, UNDERSCORING MONTAGE William and Marion ride the path to the top of the precipice, where, in the shelter of the grove, they spend their honeymoon. The MUSIC CONTINUES as, still sweaty from their love-making, he returns her to her house just before dawn. She waves from her window, as William rides away, as we DISSOLVE TO: Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXcGDUo-hA This scene beautifully sets up the rest of the movie with the power of their love and the need for a secret marriage to avoid the Prima Noctes (First Night) law and to go directly to the honeymoon. William's focused wrath, after her murder, sustains him for the rest of the movie.