Anniversary

Tomorrow there will be 16 years since I married my sweetheart.

I can't post pictures of that day... because I don't have pictures... we are the only couple I personally know who eloped! The circumstances were such that we couldn't even think about having one of those weddings that (almost) every girls dreams about.

Did I dream of one? To be honest - not really :) I always knew I want to get married and make a family, but I could never picture myself as a bride :) which is probably why I agreed to our eloping.

Do I regret not having a 'proper' wedding? Not really either. A few years back hubby and I had a Video production company and we filmed and edited quite a number of weddings... sometimes I would romantically sigh, however - I would have liked one for myself on one condition: someone else would be in charge of anything, I would just had to come, get dressed, get to the church, say 'I do' (well, not really again - it's a long sermon, but I don't recall the bride & groom having to say 'I do' in our church... interesting) and go somewhere for the honeymoon. Since my 'dream' wedding is utopia, we left it at our original eloping :)

I think what I'm trying to say is: it doesn't matter how you get married, what's important is how you stay married :) The very first few years weren't all too pretty, but somewhere between year 4 and 5 (I believe) - we finally both smoothed up our corners and became a couple of one mind. So much so that to this day there is no need for words to know what the other wants to say, to the extent of when words are spoken, they are identical. I mean: identical - down to the intonation. Our beautiful son considers this both creepy and gross :)

So tomorrow is our 16th Anniversary! Happy anniversary, dear Florin! To many more to come!

May your grass always be green
May your skies forever blue
May your heart always be young
And may God bless you!

P.S. I need to specify I wanted to make something in the 16th anniversary stone (peridot). To my complete dismay peridot is not a gemstone readily available, not in this area at least. Our nice store didn't have it stock and Michaels had some minuscule chips I simply didn't know what to make with :) I'll have to wait for an anniversary with an easier stone, probably :)