Maris,
I’ve probably heard it a hundred times over, that the first year of marriage is the hardest one. I kind of feel like I’ve cheated the system though, because every day of this past year has been nothing but a gift. Even our hard days, our emotional days, our stressful days, they didn’t feel as hard as they might have been because I had you by my side. When I look back to a year ago, the memories of our day have become sharper with time. How beautiful you looked at the end of the aisle, how much we laughed when it rained, the way it felt to hold you, my wife in my arms and dance with you for the first time.
One year under our figurative belts, and dozens to go as far as I'm concerned. I love you with my whole heart and beyond any sort of quantifying amounts. I look forward to loving you for all of our lives, for all that this new year for us will bring. I can't wait to grow our family together, to live one adventure after the next and truly indulge in the absolute blessing it is to have you as my wife, to choose you every day and feel you choose me back. Also just to make sure it is said that sorry (not sorry) every other person in the world, I have the hottest wife in the universe and everyone else is just going to have to deal with the fact they lost out.
For the first year anniversary, paper is supposed to be the gift guide, so I wanted to be sure to find something that felt like something fitting of you and your brilliant mind, and your beautiful heart. I love you I love you I love you my incredible wife.
a handmade vintage journal, a fancy pen engraved with "honey", a frame with a favorite photo of their wedding, with their vows written out, side by side, and the hebrew words engraved into the frame:
Ani l’dodi v’dodi li Maris. The moment I met you, I didn’t know how exactly or what path we’d take, but I knew that you were going to be someone important to me. From that first tour of our first campus together, I had a crush on you that still hasn’t gone away. I just thank god that you like women. We don’t talk about the dark years, but I only mention them now because finding you again was like the sunrise, and because these are vows and these are promises, I promise to hold onto you and the light that you are to me forever. Promises are a big one, and I think you know how much I promise all the usual things. Promising to love you for the rest of my life, for an eternity, for an infinite amount of hours, minutes, seconds is not hard. That’s a given. There’s no world where I don’t love you with everything I have. You are my home. I’ve never been the kind of woman to believe that someone could complete another person, but with you, I have found someone who completes my life. You are your own person, and I love you for every bit of you. And god, I love how you love me. You have always loved me so completely, I don’t know that I thought that was possible before you. I never have to be anything but exactly myself when I’m with you. For all my nerdy, exuberant ways. I promise to laugh with you every day. I promise to get into ridiculous debates and long conversations over good and bad tv, and literature, and films. I promise to cook with you in our kitchen and make sure we dance throughout our days. I promise you that every night I will kiss you before we sleep, and every morning I will wake up smiling because you are beside me, my wife. I love you. I will love you for the rest of time. You are my best friend, my home, and in another few minutes, finally, my wife. Now I’ll stop before I go on so long it postpones that last part even more.
Rory... Keats says 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever. It's loveliness increases. It will never pass into nothingness.' I believe that. I believe that because I love you more and more every day. I don't think... I know, really. I know I've never loved anyone before you. I will never love anyone after. I would never do this, stand here with anyone else because I tried. There was a point where I tried to forget all about you and I couldn't because Keats was right. Something as beautiful as you. As what we had and have could never pass into nothingness, even when someone as stubborn as I am tries to make it happen. He also says, right after that beauty will still keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. And that's what I want for us, especially you. So I guess that's what I'm promising. To build our home together and to keep you... And whoever else comes along as safe and as happy as I possibly can. To build our own little sanctuary together and to always be by your side like I was always meant to be.
I’ve probably heard it a hundred times over, that the first year of marriage is the hardest one. I kind of feel like I’ve cheated the system though, because every day of this past year has been nothing but a gift. Even our hard days, our emotional days, our stressful days, they didn’t feel as hard as they might have been because I had you by my side. When I look back to a year ago, the memories of our day have become sharper with time. How beautiful you looked at the end of the aisle, how much we laughed when it rained, the way it felt to hold you, my wife in my arms and dance with you for the first time.
One year under our figurative belts, and dozens to go as far as I'm concerned. I love you with my whole heart and beyond any sort of quantifying amounts. I look forward to loving you for all of our lives, for all that this new year for us will bring. I can't wait to grow our family together, to live one adventure after the next and truly indulge in the absolute blessing it is to have you as my wife, to choose you every day and feel you choose me back. Also just to make sure it is said that sorry (not sorry) every other person in the world, I have the hottest wife in the universe and everyone else is just going to have to deal with the fact they lost out.
For the first year anniversary, paper is supposed to be the gift guide, so I wanted to be sure to find something that felt like something fitting of you and your brilliant mind, and your beautiful heart. I love you I love you I love you my incredible wife.
a handmade vintage journal, a fancy pen engraved with "honey", a frame with a favorite photo of their wedding, with their vows written out, side by side, and the hebrew words engraved into the frame:
Ani l’dodi v’dodi li Maris. The moment I met you, I didn’t know how exactly or what path we’d take, but I knew that you were going to be someone important to me. From that first tour of our first campus together, I had a crush on you that still hasn’t gone away. I just thank god that you like women. We don’t talk about the dark years, but I only mention them now because finding you again was like the sunrise, and because these are vows and these are promises, I promise to hold onto you and the light that you are to me forever. Promises are a big one, and I think you know how much I promise all the usual things. Promising to love you for the rest of my life, for an eternity, for an infinite amount of hours, minutes, seconds is not hard. That’s a given. There’s no world where I don’t love you with everything I have. You are my home. I’ve never been the kind of woman to believe that someone could complete another person, but with you, I have found someone who completes my life. You are your own person, and I love you for every bit of you. And god, I love how you love me. You have always loved me so completely, I don’t know that I thought that was possible before you. I never have to be anything but exactly myself when I’m with you. For all my nerdy, exuberant ways. I promise to laugh with you every day. I promise to get into ridiculous debates and long conversations over good and bad tv, and literature, and films. I promise to cook with you in our kitchen and make sure we dance throughout our days. I promise you that every night I will kiss you before we sleep, and every morning I will wake up smiling because you are beside me, my wife. I love you. I will love you for the rest of time. You are my best friend, my home, and in another few minutes, finally, my wife. Now I’ll stop before I go on so long it postpones that last part even more.
Rory... Keats says 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever. It's loveliness increases. It will never pass into nothingness.' I believe that. I believe that because I love you more and more every day. I don't think... I know, really. I know I've never loved anyone before you. I will never love anyone after. I would never do this, stand here with anyone else because I tried. There was a point where I tried to forget all about you and I couldn't because Keats was right. Something as beautiful as you. As what we had and have could never pass into nothingness, even when someone as stubborn as I am tries to make it happen. He also says, right after that beauty will still keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. And that's what I want for us, especially you. So I guess that's what I'm promising. To build our home together and to keep you... And whoever else comes along as safe and as happy as I possibly can. To build our own little sanctuary together and to always be by your side like I was always meant to be.