Greetings from Ireland! Rick and I are driving between Dublin & Belfast today celebrating our two year anniversary with another fabulous vow renewal. This time, in costume. (Wanna guess what we’re up to?)
Hold up though. TWO YEARS?! How have I been a married woman for two whole years?
Time flies when you’re dodging crisis after crisis having fun.
Last week, Rae and I were at a tiki bar on Captiva Island sipping Bahama Mamas, and just the taste brought us back to Hell Wedding Week in Abaco two years ago. As the rum flowed, we reminisced about all the wedding mishaps – the serious and not-so-serious. The good news is, I’m finally to the point where I can laugh about almost everything that happened that week. (Minus the threats from the hotel, hey-o!)
But the ridiculous stuff – nearly drowning while trying to take underwater wedding photos, our hideous updos, having our rehearsal dinner in a construction site and having more than one relative who drank their weight in rum – are memories that seem to get funnier as we get farther away from their origin date.
In the ensuing fallout with the venue after the wedding, I never even got around to sharing photos of the big day. And despite how the week actually went, our photographers from the Lilypad Agency did an amazing job of blurring out construction equipment and photoshopping the bags under my eyes.
They say in marriage the days are long, but the years are short. And I am really starting to understand that.
We’ve had our rough spots, as all newly married couples do. Learning how to communicate shouldn’t be this hard for a professional communicator, but it turns out, Rick is neither a blog reader or a mind reader, so I’ve had lots to learn.
And he has, too. Like… I want things done… yesterday. You’d never guess he is the native New Yorker and not me. There is no gratification instantaneous enough for me, but I’m learning from his more mellow lifestyle that not everything has to be RIGHT NOW.
They say the first two years are the hardest, and if that’s the case we are gonna be a.o.k. I’m so happy with this man and so blessed by him just being his weird self in my weird life.
Anyhow, gotta run. We’re driving on the wrong side of the road in costumes so no time to dawdle.
Ha! Your two year old photos post makes me think again about digging up some of my own favorites pictures that never made the blog… (Not wedding pics per se, but, you know, adventures from 2015…haha.) So glad that you and Rick found each other and are making a life together. Congratulations on all the hard work and the fun of marriage. Here’s to many, many more years together xx
Happy Anniversary, you two! The photos turned out beautiful. I’m still so happy I could be part of your special day, construction zone and all!
Happy anniversary, you two! Glad I was there to celebrate with you, and hope you have a whale of a time in Ireland!
What funderful fotos! I wish you many more years of learning about one another, creating great memories, and sharing the steering wheel during the storms.
Awww! Happy Wedding Anniversary.
Your photographs are lovely and you both look enormously cute and made for each other. Welcome to the wonderful world of marriage!
Happy anniversary. amazing pictures
Is india in your travelling list?
thanks
Congratulations for your two years of bond, these really very awesome photographs. Wishing you you a happy life ahead.
Great, Amazing memories you shared of your wedding and stunning photos you shared of your wedding.
Such amazing photos and they are all wonderful. Goodluck to the both of you. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Those pictures were so so so beautiful! Loved these amazing and lovely pictures. Thank you for sharing such amazing moments of youes 🙂
Amazing! Can’t take my eyes off these picture. Thanks for sharing.