Sappy Anniversary Post

Bear with me through this sappy post because CP is worth a sappy love post :) All photos are by the amazing Julie Lim.

Nearly seven years ago, a boy and a girl met one night through mutual friends at Clarendon Ballroom (yes- you read that correctly). After they met that night, said boy asked one mutual friend what said girl likes to do and mutual friend said she was planning on going to Clarendon Day the next weekend. When said girl wrapped up her first ever Back to School Night, she had a voicemail waiting on her phone from said boy asking if she had heard of Clarendon Day and if she might want to go? Sneaky, clever guy.....

Quite literally, the rest is history. I've never been a "love at first sight" believer but that's pretty much what comes to mind with CP. In so many ways, our personalities could not be more different and yet- and yet!!!- we make it work and we make it work well. Like any couple, we have our moments but there is no one else in this world that I want to work through those tough moments with. Through the fun, the sad, the crazy, the life-altering, we've been one another's rock and I thank my lucky stars every single day that I went to Clarendon Ballroom on that fateful evening in September 2009.

I could go on and on and on (and on) about how much I love CP, but below is a reading from our wedding that encapsulates the foundation that our relationship is built and stands upon so well. LOVE YOU, Christopher!!! Here's to year three!!

"May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may
life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. May you always need one another - not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness. A mountain needs a valley to be complete; the valley does not make the mountain less, but more; and the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it. So let it be with you and you. May you need one another, but not out of weakness. May you want one another, but not out of lack. May you entice one another, but not compel one another. May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another. May you succeed in all important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces. May you look for things to praise, often say, "I love you" and take no notice of small faults. If you have quarrels that push you apart, may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back. May you enter into the mystery which is the awareness of one another's presence - no more physical than spiritual, warm and near when you are side by side, and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities. May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy. May you have love, and may you find it loving one another."