My Hopes for Marriage

I recently came upon these words about marriage that my sister shared and I want to make sure that I always remember the, As we’ve planned our wedding, it’s been so easy to get lost in the details - the flowers and decor and chairs and food and money and all of the annoying little details. These last few days before we get married though, i’m forcing myself to let go of all of those silly worries and to focus, instead, on what it’s really all for. If there’s one thing i’ve learned working in the industry it’s that wedding days are simply what they are: there will be laughs and hugs and tears; there will be beautiful moments and there will also be some things that don’t go as planned. Some random member will say something cringe worthy, and someone will probably wear jeans. Someone will most definitely be late. It will be one day of our lives and then it will be over. Marriage is so much bigger than that one day. I hope that my heart can hold that truth through it all.

I hope that marriage will have magical days, but I know it will have dull days too. I hope that on the magical days, I can have the awareness to soak in every last bit of it. I hope that marriage is full of belly laughs and silliness and never acting our age. I hope that in my marriage, when i’m angry and frustrated, I will take the time to remember why I made the commitment in the first place, and why I loved in the first place. I hope that marriage is a soft place for me to land when the world is hard, and that I will be that for my partner too. I hope that marriage will be like having a built in best friend, a never-ending sleepover, and a forever number one fan. I hope that marriage will be simple in some ways and complicated in other, but fulfilling always. I hope, more than anything that i’m good at marriage. That I can learn to be good at it. I hope that I live a long long life, that I grow old and gray and wrinkled with Mark and I hope that at the end of it all, my marriage was the greatest thing i’ve ever done.