Our anniversary celebration was so much better even than I expected (and I was expecting it to be pretty awesome!) I am so happy to have had a year with my sweet David and many many more ahead of us!
We got a little something for each other...David sent flowers to me at work, along with a sweet little bear, on Friday...
And I bought David a big football book...
We also bought three gifts together for us as a couple, based on the "customary anniversary gifts" for the first anniversary. "Paper" is the TRADITIONAL first anniversary gift, and so we got this beautiful printed saying that was framed. It says "Without faith nothing is possible, but with faith everything is possible."
The MODERN first anniversary gift is "clocks" and so we purchased this for our bedroom...
The BRITISH first anniversary gift is cotton, and since David and I both have partial English heritage, we thought it would be fitting to get something from that category as well. So we found these really pretty cotton washcloths for our master bathroom...
I decorated our bedroom with the decorations from our wedding and reception...some of the silk flower arrangements (mostly dogwoods, blue hydrangeas, and magnolias) and baskets from our big day. I also put out some carnations, which is the traditional flower for the first wedding anniversary. I realize that our bedroom looks kind of "incomplete" in these photos, but it's because we haven't had a chance to re-hang our artwork or our curtails since we finished painting that bedroom. Here are shots of the wedding/anniversary decor...
We watched our wedding video together, which was really sweet. We plan to do that every anniversary forever. We also reread the notes that we wrote to each other on our wedding day. I opened up my wedding gown (which is professionally preserved)and we looked through the preservation box window at it...it was fun to reminisce that this is what I was wearing a year ago!
Then we got all dressed up to go to dinner at Green Valley Grill in the O.Henry Hotel. The O.Henry is where we had our rehearsal dinner last year, the night before the wedding. Here is David in our front yard just before we left for dinner. Isn't he so handsome?!
We had an amazing dinner at Green Valley Grill! I had a burger and David had Moroccan Meatballs with Penne. Delicious! Afterwards, our waiter brought us a free piece of cake for our anniversary (he clearly didn't realize we had a whole top layer of wedding cake that had been frozen at home!)...
When we got home from dinner, David carried me over the threshold, just like he did when we got back from our honeymoon (this was his idea and so sweet!)
I had set up a little display in our dining room. I put out some photos from our wedding, our wedding toasting flutes, our wedding cake cutter and server, our unity candle, and we decided to eat the cake and other goodies off our our fine china. We had frozen the top layer of our wedding cake, as is tradition, and were AMAZED at how delicious and moist it was when thawed. I think it was better than on our wedding day! I put our wedding cake topper on top of it to take some pictures before we cut the cake. And of course, we had to feel a piece to each other just like we did a year ago! We sat in our dining room and ate the cake and talked about what an amazing day we had and how much we loved each other.
Also, on our wedding night David had arranged that the place we stayed (which still remains our secret) make a tray of chocolates and cheese and wine for us to enjoy on our wedding night. So I replicated that with some delicious goodies on a tray that we used at our wedding.
Below our pictures of our post-dinner celebration...
Today at church, on our actual anniversary, we peeped in the Theater (the old sanctuary that we married in) and talked about how we couldn't believe it was a whole year ago.
It was really one of the best weekends we have ever had. I love David so so much, am so thankful to have the security of marrying a man of God and knowing that our marriage WILL ABSOLUTELY last "until death do us part." He is my best friend, and I feel most grateful to him and to God for this incredible first year of being one with him.
such sweetness!
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