Elissa Bell-Degrate Elissa Bell-Degrate

The Vows We Carried

What does it mean to promise someone forever when there are parts of their life you may never fully understand?

Beneath the beauty of a wedding inspired by ancient gods and goddesses lies a story far less perfect than the ceremony suggests. One shaped by distance, competing responsibilities, private fears, and prayers spoken long before anyone imagined an altar.

For a woman who has spent much of her life learning how to stand on her own, choosing to share that life with someone requires more than believing in love. It requires confronting what she can offer, what she cannot control, and what she must never lose of herself.

The Vows We Carried opens at the destination before returning to the uncertainty of the journey, where a million and one unspoken thoughts begin to reveal the difference between loving someone and learning how to build a life alongside them.

Some love stories begin with a promise. This one begins with everything it took to understand one.

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