Good morning.
The bride's name is Anna. She is thirty-one. She has a graduate degree in English literature, which will become important in approximately one paragraph.
At 11:43 p.m. the night before her wedding, Anna opened an AI assistant and typed: "Please write wedding vows for a woman named Anna marrying a man named Trevor. Make them specific, funny, a little bit devastating. Mention his terrible knees."
She got back something she didn't change a single word of.
The next morning, in front of seventy-two people, she read vows she had not written, to a man she very much loved.
The groom cried.
He cried, according to four witnesses, for ninety seconds, into the lapel of his navy suit. A 31-year-old structural engineer who hadn't cried since his father's funeral came genuinely undone in front of his entire extended family.
He cried because the vows were good.
They were extraordinarily good.
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The officiant paused the ceremony. The string trio played something quiet. Anna's 89-year-old grandmother leaned over and whispered, "She always was a beautiful writer."
Anna's mother did not correct her.
In the four weeks since: two of her bridesmaids have asked for the prompt, sworn her to secrecy, and have wedding dates within the year. Trevor has been told. He has framed a printed copy of the vows on the bedside table.
And when Anna went back to thank the AI the following week, it said something that nobody — not Anna, not her bridesmaids, not her therapist — was prepared for.
Read what the AI said →
https://wattalife.com/ai-wedding-vows
Talk Thursday.
Margot
Editor, Wattalife