Last month my husband & I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. A milestone most definitely but is it considered a BIG milestone? no. Most people wait until the hit the 20 year mark to do any serious celebratory actions. If you asked me two years ago what our plans were for our 10 year I would of told you without a bit of hesitation that we were going to the Galapagos Islands. A place I have always wanted to go and felt our anniversary would be the time. Then something happened. My good friend got married and he was married by the worship pastor at my church. He was so personable, funny and made me wish he had married us for our wedding. In that very moment the Galapagos Islands went out the door and the new plan was to renew our vows. Yes we or rather I decided we should renew our vows and have a reception afterwards. Just a small mini wedding. My husband of course thought I was a little crazy but being the great hubby that he is decided to go along with my plan.
We had two years to save and two years for me to plan. We decided on a Friday evening the day after our actual anniversary. We were married on 02-02-02. We renewed our vows at the little chapel on the campus of the university we both received our bachelor's & master's degrees from. We had our 3 children as our attendants and invited just close friends and family. One of my band mates owns a vintage car and was kind to be our driver for the night.
We dined. We danced. We ate cake. We celebrated. We were thankful.
Would I do it all again? In a heartbeat most definitely yes. Since our wedding 10 years ago fifteen of the people who attended our wedding have died. I'm sure when we celebrate our 20 year there will be more added to that list. Life is so short and we rejoice in each day we are given. We will forever have the memories of our wedding and now of our 10 year vow renewal. Galapagos will always be there. The people who were there celebrating with us last month will not. My husband even agreed it was the better choice.
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