Married
July 4th, 2007Faith and I have done it – we’re married. You might have heard that we were having an October wedding in Iowa, which was true. However, neither of us were all too fired up to plan all the details. For example, we had been engaged a year, and hadn’t picked colors yet.
When we received the lists from our families of everyone to invite, it turned out that list was about a hundred people more than our reception hall or church would hold. Being politically sensitive about it, we decided we didn’t want to make any enemies by selectively cutting people from the lists.
Instead, we just cut everyone from the lists, and got married on our own.
No one was particularly upset about it, although I think my mom would have liked a wedding day. But everyone is relieved to not be paying for a wedding – especially Faith and I. We’ve got better plans for that money, like getting together a down payment on a house where we can start a family.
At the end of the day, the important thing is that Faith and I have made official the commitment that we’ve made to one another quite a while ago. She’s the one I want to spend the rest of my life with, and I couldn’t be happier (or luckier) that she’s settled for a guy like me. Now that I’m a husband, I’m going to spend each day making certain that she never forgets how much I love her.
What a difference ten years makes. When I first met Faith, I could barely see myself in a relationship � much less married. I never thought I would buy a house or have kids. When I looked at the future, it always looked a lot like the present. I’m at a dramatically different place now, and I have Faith to thank for it. No one else could have seen this in me, or had the patience to let these changes take their course.