Tomorrow is the 5-year anniversary of when Jesse and I got married. (But I’m posting today because I plan on spending my day with him tomorrow.) I love him a thousand times more today than on July 29, 2005. Maybe a million times more. It’s really unquantifiable. So today, as I reminisce about 5 years ago, I’ll share some of my favorite things from our wedding – a photo, a poem, and a song. (Though at this exact moment 5 years ago I was running errands like a crazy person. But I’ll leave that for a future post on why a wedding planner/coordinator is a great idea.)
When we were married, we had already been together for 7 years. A lot of people say marriage is only the beginning, but, for us, it was a beautiful day in the middle. We were really young and I don’t think we completely understood the gravity of what we committed to, but each day it is revealed to me how wonderful and special our marriage is. I am eternally bound to a man who wakes up each morning and thinks of new ways to love me, to make my life happier. And as long as we keep doing that for each other, it will only get better. And it has.

Here’s Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet 17 that my aunt read at our wedding. We are practical people, and I think it communicates how we’re not blinded by love just for love’s sake, but still mysteriously consumed by it.
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
And here’s the Marc Cohn song “True Companion” that I literally can’t listen to without crying. Please don’t play it at your wedding or I will cry.






















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