four years
June 27th, 2007 @ 10:27 am
today, chris and i celebrate our fourth anniversary. june 27, 2003 we were married at 6:30 pm and spent the following days in a huge cabin in green mountain falls, colorado playing xbox, watching harry potter, and white water rafting. and duh, other stuff too…
i still get picked on by some of our friends on my OCD wedding planning - color coded schedules for everyone involved, timed out to the half minute. no joking. but i knew things wouldn’t go perfectly, and they didn’t…
-i felt a little athletic during the rehearsal and jumped down all the stairs at the front of the church and sprained my ankle. walking in 4″ heels the next day was not fun.
-i refused to start the wedding until my friends from oklahoma arrived. so we started probably closer to 7 pm.
-we accidentally blew out our unity candle. so while we were supposed to be praying, we were doing our best not to bust out laughing. our pastor kindly relit it.
-the wrong song was played as our recessional song. ironically, the wrong song was also played the night before. however, the rehearsal song talked about drinking and getting lit up. the one played at the wedding was at least a love song (both were frank sinatra.) the correct song, was “here goes” by frank.
-on the way to colorado, we almost got sucked up in a tornado and had to take shelter in the back of a random gas station somewhere in west kansas.
love is not perfect. marriage is not perfect. these four years have been anything but perfect. but i wouldn’t trade them for anything in the world.
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Crystal Renaud said,
June 27, 2007 at 10:52 am
congratulations!!! :)
Bill Cecchini said,
June 27, 2007 at 11:11 am
Perhaps a bit generic, but…Happy Anniversary, Anne ;-)
tony sheng said,
June 27, 2007 at 11:34 am
congratulations and to many many many more years!
bryonm said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:07 pm
congratulations. has it been the longest four years of your life or the shortest?
Jason Curlee said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Congrats Anne
Anna said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Awww… :) Congratulations and happy anniversary.
Paul said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:22 pm
awesome, congrats to you both. It’s my 10th next week :)
Melinda Groth said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Happy anniversary! The location of your honeymoon cabin sounds wonderful!
Hale-Yeah! said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:27 pm
congrats. it’s so nice to chronicle all of those crazy memories on the blog too.
Anne Jackson said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:30 pm
thanks everyone - it has FLOWN by.
Deana said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:33 pm
happy anniversary!
Sam. said,
June 27, 2007 at 12:34 pm
That’s exciting! Trying to think of something to say other than “congratulations”…but I’m struggling! Here’s to another great year for you guys though!
John Blanchard said,
June 27, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Right on! Congratulations to you both!!
Greg Johnson said,
June 27, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Congrats on finishing four! My wife and I finished 25 in March with a trip to San Diego. Time goes fast. Enjoy every minute.
Know that you are loved,
gaj
Gina said,
June 27, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Incredible. Happy Anniversary
Tony said,
June 27, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Congrats. It’ll be 11 years for us next month. Keeps getting better.
Gretch-A-Sketch said,
June 27, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Ohhh how wonderful! I believe marriage is such a blessing. (I keep telling myself, One day..One day) =)
Happy Anniversary!
Gretchin
Mark Jaffrey said,
June 27, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Well done Anne, congratulations. It only gets better! Felicity and I are coming up on fourteen years.
Jordan Like the River said,
June 27, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Congratulations!
And, that is exactly why I don’t plan to use candles at my wedding.
Sarah said,
June 27, 2007 at 3:52 pm
What a gorgeous picture of you! Congrats on four years!
Funny story re. wedding mishaps… I was the pianist for a good friend’s wedding about a year ago, and I couldn’t see above the top of the piano to know when to wind up the processional music. My pre-occupied baritone friend sitting beside me was too busy humming along to my playing to cue me, as was his assigned duty. So my rendition of Pachelbel’s Canon in D had an extra 8 measures or so of rests. I like to think I was just keeping the audience awake.
Terrible Speller said,
June 27, 2007 at 4:36 pm
congrats!
clay said,
June 27, 2007 at 7:52 pm
congratulations!
chris g said,
June 27, 2007 at 8:11 pm
congrats!
marriage is great, isnt it? 8 years for me and penny
michael said,
June 27, 2007 at 8:36 pm
my wife and i on a recent date night went to a local mexican cafe. the single waiter asked me regarding marriage, “so, how is it”?
in a rare moment of timing, i was able to respond, “it’s amazing with someone like her”.
congratulations…
S. Pihlaja said,
June 27, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Hey! June 27th is my birthday!
It seems that blowing out the unity candle by accident would be a bad omen. I’m glad you didn’t let it get you down and pressed on instead.
West said,
June 27, 2007 at 10:19 pm
happy anniversary….we just got past 5 years……I’m very happy and I pray that you will be even happier this time next year.
Lynse leanne said,
June 27, 2007 at 11:17 pm
congrats and happy anniversary.
Jess said,
June 28, 2007 at 12:40 am
Hey Anne!
Happy Anniversary.
My grandparents said on their 50th wedding anniversary that the secret to making their marriage last was to “never let the sun go down on your anger”. (And I’m sure it’s somewhere in the Bible too!)
Jess xx
Rob said,
June 28, 2007 at 4:05 am
Hey Anne,
I hope you two had a wonderful anniversary. My bestest friend and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary on June 22nd.
Anne Jackson said,
June 28, 2007 at 9:50 am
Thanks guys! We had a great one. A friend of ours got sick :( but gave us his tickets to see The Police last night! Sweetness!!
pete said,
June 28, 2007 at 10:04 am
keep on keepin’ on! CONGRATS!