Celebrating Our First Wedding Anniversary

I believe that your first year as a married couple is worth celebrating and remembering. Today was me and my husband's first year anniversary since the day we got married.

Celebrating your first year being married can be exciting. It confirms your status as a proper husband and wife and it's a time to look to the future together. Your first anniversary is a time to forget about troubles. Forget about the everyday demands of life and just throw caution in the wind for a day. Celebrate and make memories.

For us, we celebrated our anniversary in quite a simple way. I just want to say that I am lucky to have a husband that is so caring and thoughtful and lives to make his wife happy. tehee! Kidding aside, my husband is a very thoughtful and caring person. For our first year anniversary, he had our wedding cake ordered exactly the same and we shared it with family and some friends. They say, it's tradition to keep a slice or a piece of your wedding cake until your first anniversary and that, we actually did. But to be honest, none of us really wanted to eat it knowing it's been in the freezer for a year. So what he did was to have it made again fresh! Exactly the same as our wedding cake.

I think that your first year anniversary is an excuse to get away. Yes, go on on a trip! I figure that when we start to have kids, it would be more complicated to actually plan trips for just the two of us so this is the perfect opportunity. This year was also the first time for us to travel together and spend our anniversary out of state. We went to Chicago and spent a couple of days in the city. I have never seen Chicago at Christmas time so this trip was an opportunity for both of us.

Visiting the Skydeck Willis Tower was a bout the touristy thing we did in Chicago. I have always wanted to experience it and my husband made it possible. We went there knowing that there would be a crowd of people standing in line to get to the top but we were ready for it. After waiting in line for your ticket, you get to experience the museum and the history of the tower. There might have been a lot of people there especially because of the holidays but it was definitely worth it once you get into that glass tube and overlooking the whole city of Chicago.

For an anniversary gift, my husband outdid me this year. Well, to be honest, he has been giving me gifts a couple weeks before our anniversary but what he really wanted me to have for our special day was a set of jewelries. He gave me a necklace and earring set. A Sapphire necklace and drop earrings set in white gold. Sapphire is my birthstone so he said it was the perfect gift for me and I loved it!

What I got my husband were a couple of varied things but the best one I think was this gift I got for him....hi baby picture. His mom had save this baby picture of him when he was just a year old and was kind enough to give them to me. I thought it would be a nice idea to have it framed neatly in white wooden picture frames. Then we could hang it in our wall gallery with all the rest of our family pictures.

And since our anniversary lies on the Winter solstice and the Christmas season, I thought that it would be a good and cute idea to give my husband our first anniversary/Christmas ornament to hang in our tree. That way, next year we can look back at the memory and enjoy it.

And of course, as we always do, almost every day and for no reason at all but because we love each other, we both gave each other anniversary greeting cards. I especially love to receive cards from my husband and I love giving them to him too. I always keep them and put them in a special box where I know I will in the future love and enjoy to reminisce it and hopefully show them to our kids.

I know it is early on in the marriage to say that I have learned a lot of things. I know that I still have a long way to go and so many more lessons in life, love and married relationships that we both will still learn and that is just the thing...our anniversary is the time to look towards the future. While looking back can be beneficial for your relationship, so can looking ahead. It's a chance to discuss our hopes and dreams for the future which we always do anyways but this milestone, gives us the motivation and inspiration to work on those dreams and hopes. It's a;so the perfect time to think about how we would like our relationship look like in the future.

So, whether you are super excited for year anniversary next year, or you're just praying you'll make it until then, I think that you should set aside time to celebrate your anniversary.

We are remembering where we've been. We are acknowledge where we are now and we are anticipating a good future!

XOXO,

Karen