My first year of marriage

well one year ago today was my rehearsal dinner. Well technically the RD was a year ago on the 17th, but you get my drift.



I find it really hard to believe I have been married for a year. For those of you who don't know, we had a really long engagement. It wasn't what we wanted but we had no choice in the matter. Family dynamics being what they are. Because of our really long engagement, it felt like the wedding would never get here. But eventually it did and we had a really fun wedding and off to Aruba we went. Then we came back to the real world.



We didn't live together before we were married - most people couldn't believe that and thought that we were doomed for a divorce. These warnings came despite statistics proving that living together before marriage leads to a higher divorce rate than not living together. Somehow, despite predictions that surely we could never get through a marriage if we didn't have a trial run first, we've made it a year. I think not living together before marriage was a really good idea - even though it wasn't actually a decision we made, but more a decision that was forced upon us from logistics and again, family dynamics. But standing up at the altar, exchanging vows, knowing we really were going to start a new life together was so exciting.

We've had a busy year - I've continued on with school and Andrew took the GMAT and started school. We've both done very well in school, but it's kept us really busy. We've had some fun mixed in to our lives as well. We've had a lot of fun with friends, we went down to Newport for a mini-getaway, we did some really great skiing, and fixed up our condo a little bit at a time. I hope our second year is as good as our first and by the time our third year rolls around we will both be done with school. We'll have to fill our time with something else....