Our Second Wedding Anniversary

Posted on December 15th, 2010 by Mandy. 6 Comments

Mandy
Wedding Date: May 29th, 2010
Bio: I am currently in the process of of living happily-ever-after with my amazing spouse, Bek; brightening up our drudgery of grad school and non-profit administration by camping, traveling, drinking on the balcony, and planning the expansion of our family! Our recent projects have included throwing the best New York City wedding EVER.

Christmas Eve, 2008 - Outside City Hall minutes after we got married!

Christmas Eve will mark our second wedding anniversary. We’ve been married two years! A whole two years! Or… Only two years! Crazy. It’s been awesome. In those two years we’ve: had a second wedding, moved twice, legally immigrated one of us to a new country, I started a new job and then I quit my job (!), Bek has started and almost finished an MBA degree and got a  job offer for after graduation, we’ve started planning to get pregnant, we’ve made new friends together and started to develop what feels like a community in our new city, we’ve traveled a ton, and learned SO MUCH.

The learning has been the greatest gift I’ve gotten from my marriage. And it’s been short, so I can only imagine how much I’ll have learned years fom now! Bek and I are so similar in so many ways, and we think about and approach the world in very much the same ways – so it’s been specially interesting to learn about and observe the differences between us. Bek has taught me a lot about patience, confidence, being outgoing, and value of being true to oneself.

I’m one lucky gal, and in celebration of two awesome years of marriage to such an amazing person I wanted to share the vows that I wrote for Bek for our “big” wedding. I didn’t share them when I did the recap of  our ceremony, so I thought now might be a good time! I’m feeling all gooey and mushy these days as our anniversary approaches, and wanted to share just how freaking in love I am!

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I knew when I first met you that you were my best friend.  You have taught me how to love better, love stronger, and love deeper than I ever thought that I even could.  You have made me a better person, and I have learned to love myself by seeing myself loved by you.  With you I have learned to be calm.  With you I have learned to be brave.  And with you I have learned the true meaning of partnership.

I am so excited for our lifetime of adventures:  I want to never stop learning together, never stop doing the scary things together, and within reason, never stop making our major life decisions in a unusually impulsive fashion together.

I am so grateful that I have the privilege of spending the rest of our lives holding you up, holding you close, standing behind you and standing beside you.  I am going to push you to be everything you can be, and I know I can count on you to do the same for me.  I will care for you, for our children, for our home.  I’m going to make sure you fly, in every sense of the word.

You inspire me, and every day I am in awe of the kind, gentle, loving, and honest person you show yourself to be, to me and to the world.  I have said all these things to you before, and I will try to say them to you everyday for the rest of our lives – But I want to tell you here in front of the people that have made us who we both are, that I love all of your everything with all of my everything.

sigh... so much love


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  1. Erica says:
    December 15, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    *squeal!* so much love indeed.

    “I love all of your everything with all of my everything.” Gorgeous…

  2. cynthia says:
    December 15, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    I got a little misty! Wonderful words. :)

  3. Tami says:
    December 15, 2010 at 4:31 pm

    So beautiful! Happy anniversary!!

  4. Lili says:
    December 15, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    omg I love it, I can feel all the love and emotion through the words. I don’t even know you, and I got all teary eyed. Happy Anniversary!

  5. Jessica says:
    December 15, 2010 at 9:22 pm

    I just got teary eyed too! Happy anniversary! Your words make me so excited to get married and say my own words to the love of MY life!

  6. Wasabi says:
    December 17, 2010 at 11:24 am

    Wow, that last line is incredible! It makes me so happy to read about all of your marriage adventures to date. We have plans to do a lot of the same things post-wedding.

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