The couple who renewed their vows on the balcony next door
We were having a quiet evening on our balcony when we heard soft music from next door. Then voices — a man and a woman reading vows to each other. They were renewing their wedding vows on their balcony at sunset. We could hear everything through the divider. My partner grabbed my hand. We sat in complete silence listening to two strangers promise to love each other for another twenty years. When they finished, there was a long silence, and then laughter and the sound of champagne opening. We never saw their faces. We never spoke to them. When we got back to our cabin that night, my partner turned to me and said 'Can we do that on our anniversary?' We are doing it next year. On a cruise. On a balcony. Because of two strangers who did not know they had an audience.