Goin' to the Chapel.

A close friend recently asked me to be in her wedding, and I enthusiastically agreed (through tears, of course). And in the days since that happy invitation I've been just-shy-of-obsessing about all things wedding and marriage. As is probably natural, this obsession led me to reminisce about my own nuptials and that special day 6.5 years ago. That day I swore before God and man that I'd mind my spouse forever-more. (If you were there you probably inferred that's what I said...I was incomprehensible through the relentless sobbing, sorry about that.) I felt that day, and still feel now, that my wedding day was impossibly perfect and I hope that my friend's experience will be the very same.

But it isn't just my wedding that was wonderful. The lead-up to it and then the long time since has been pretty great too. We've had our ups and downs as most couples do, and the trials of tragedy and graduate school have stretched us in ways neither of us expected nor for which we were prepared. But I think <*knock on wood*> despite these things and the inherent bias of our different ages, that we're going to make it.

I'm a spiritual person but sometimes...I'm superstitious too. And I think that good beginnings speak favorably for good endings. So I'm looking to do everything possible to make sure my pal has a perfect wedding day so that 6.5 years from now she feels about hers the way I feel about mine. But more importantly, I'm making an effort in this new year to be a better wife, so that when my spouse thinks back on that day, he feels affirmed in his choice of mate.

Circles Representing Eternity

As for me? I chose wisely.