It’s hard to believe that my husband and I are creeping up on our first wedding anniversary. As I look back on the journey we’ve had as a couple, and the last year as husband and wife I can’t help but to get a bit emotional knowing we’re already going on one year of marriage. Perhaps it’s all the pregnancy hormones, or perhaps it’s just that I’m a sucker for love and our relationship. Is it strange that it almost makes me sad that it’s already been one year? I feel a bit nostalgic looking back knowing that a year ago from right now I was less than two weeks away from our wedding day and in crunch time planning mode making sure all the finishing touches got done. I’m amazed how quickly time really does fly by, and how much we’ve accomplished together in the last year.
Over the past week I’ve been looking through all of our professional and non-professional wedding pictures and mentally going back to our wedding day wishing we could do it all over again. The getting ready with all my girls, the nerves and excitement, the pictures, the “first-look” with my dad and with my husband, the ceremony, the reception, the after party…the everything! It was truly a day that was amazing, perfect and unforgettable for us both. For a while after our wedding I went back and forth between the newlywed glow to the post-wedding blues. I have to admit that it was hard going from planning our wedding and being consumed with it for almost 16 months to it all being over. But, at the same time, I was relieved it was over so we could just enjoy being married and begin a new chapter as husband and wife.
I tend to be more of a planner whereas my husband is a “fly by the seat of your pants” type of guy. I’m the worrier and he’s the calm reassuring one. Right after our wedding we started poking around online at houses and I, being the planner, wanted to come up with a time frame as to when we’d have a house. My husband, being the relaxed one, wanted to just see where life took us. I was so stressed that owning a loft we didn’t want to sell would hinder us from getting a second mortgage and ultimately buying a house. But, my husband assured me and reassured me that it would all work out. And like 99% of the time, he was right. Exactly six months after our wedding day we closed on our house. In less than one year of marriage we successfully rented out our loft to a great reliable tenant, we bought and moved into our house and we have a baby on the way. And those are just the “big” things! While we all have our own journey and path to walk, lives to live and different goals to achieve, I feel incredibly proud that we’ve accomplished so much in such a short period of time. Sure, we’ve had a few disagreements here and there (what couple doesn’t?), but our first year of marriage has been nothing short of wonderful memories and milestones. So while I may be a little saddened that one year has already passed us by, I’m also incredibly happy and grateful to be where we are as a couple and growing family. I’m looking forward to continuing the voyage of marriage, pregnancy and becoming parents together and seeing where else life takes us!