5 Years of Marriage

Today is not only Valentines Day but it is also my 5th Wedding Anniversary.

Yes, I'm aware that getting married on a day like today is quite corny but it fell on a Saturday in 2009 and my husband and I decided why not? So on the 14th February 2009 I married my best friend and the man I love on Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays. It was a simple but beautiful wedding with thirty of our closest family and friends and we celebrated afterwards with a delicious dinner at a restaurant and dancing and speeches on a nearby jetty. We had one minor glitch - the cake came without its flower toppers, but with some quick thinking and fake flowers our MC and I decorated it ourselves.

As beautiful as our wedding was and as much as we enjoyed our day I've learnt that no matter how grand, wonderful and perfect your wedding day is, it doesn't predict or ensure that your marriage will be the same. Learning to live with someone else for the rest of your life isn't always easy, we have interests that are the same and some, such as cricket, that are not. But its the differences I feel that keep our marriage interesting and both of us open minded. Although we have enjoyed highs and lows we always manage to come back to our base friendship and remember what we have from there.

 

It's easy to forget all of the things you achieve over the years and while I made my husband a little book of some of our favourite memories together for today it reminded how much we have done. Together we have bought two houses, had two gorgeous and healthy children, gone on many adventures, laughed and cried together. But we did all of these things as a team which is what got us through the stressful and happy times. We have always been willing to work at our marriage and put in the time and effort for each other when it is needed. It's easy to forget your relationship when you have children and thanks to our families who love babysitting we get the opportunity to spend time together as a couple as well as a family.

 

My husband is hard working, an amazing father, a handy man, funny and I love him very much. I'm looking forward to what the next 5 years will bring.