It kind of crept up on us, I feel like it always will. It’s that date that just two years ago felt like it was never going to come… endless countdowns, crossing days off of the calendar, it had arrived and in the blink of an eye it was gone. I feel like I am always thinking about our wedding, heck, I have to be as I coach my brides through the process of planning a wedding and laugh with them over all of the little details that go into the perfect day. As this date quickly approached, I put off writing this. How do you possibly have words to thank someone for sharing their life, bed, home, and dreams with you for the last two years? What could I say that wouldn’t sound cliche or make people want to puke over the mush factor? I put it off and put it off because I had no clue what to say, then I got to thinking… I shouldn’t need some big, loud, blog post to celebrate our second year of marriage because we are living our love story every single day. Somedays it looks a lot like a dinner on the couch catching up on our TV shows and others look like a late night walk with the pups and a beer on the porch, but everyday is a blessed one… a lucky one. It also felt like I just wrote this post from one year ago…
730 whole days of being man and wife… just stop and think about that for a minute. That’s 730 mornings, 730 days of counting blessings, 730 kisses goodnight (and many more), 730 days filled with hours of building our lives together, 730 days of making our house a home, 730 days spent chasing dreams and traveling the world… As I look back on our day, all I can do is smile. It was the day when our friends and family were all in one place at one time, it was the day when we promised forever together because a lifetime would never be enough, it was the time when we danced the night away without a care in the world and our hearts grew ten sizes out of our love for our lives. Two years later, I can honestly say we are better, happier, and more in love than we were 730 days ago… as far as that honeymoon stage goes? We are aiming to stay in it for the rest of our lives.
Drew:
I don’t quite know how you do it, that whole making me weak in the knees feeling that you give me every morning when you kiss me awake, the way you make me laugh at myself even when I am a mess, the way that you scratch the dogs bellies and give them a million kisses. When we were married our lives were so different, we had different jobs, different dreams, and a different idea of what “home” was. We were two kids who happened to have fallen in love and wanted to hang out together for the rest of our lives, we grew up together over the years and came into the people that we are today. We weren’t totally sure what life would have in store for us and our dreams were limited by what we thought we had wanted, but all we knew is that we wanted to tackle life’s adventures hand in hand… and back then, that was more than enough.
We planned a marriage far more beautiful than our wedding day and soaked in those precious moments of being surrounded by the people who loved us most. Two years later, we are still doing the same thing… just in everyday life, even if that means you come home from work and I am still in my sweaty workout clothes with tired eyes from staring at my computer screen all day. This life that we built? It’s a beautiful one, not just on the outside but so deep down in our hearts and souls. From career changes to a new home, a little ten pound addition in Tucker, and a million puppy kisses from Chloe, from traveling the world to mowing the lawn, running marathons to breakfast in bed, each and every moment with you is something that I cherish. I don’t know what I did to be so lucky to marry you and call you mine for eternity but God was looking down on me when I met you freshman year… clearly he had big plans long before we ever did.
A lot can change in a year: new home, new pup, new car, another marathon ran, exciting career endeavors, tropical travels, and everything in between. We sure tackled this last year with enthusiasm, love, passion, and laughs. When I was thinking about why I love my job so much, why I love telling love stories everyday, I realized it’s because I am constantly living my own. Thank you for always being there for me, for kissing me goodnight, for making my coffee every single morning, for cleaning up after me, for always putting the vacuum to good use and for watering the lawn. I value everything about you: your hard work ethic, your neat freak tendencies, your big muscles, your devotion to a green lawn, your love for ESPN, the way you stock our fridge with enough beer and wine to last a year, and the way you love me. I am thankful to build our own universe filled with all kinds of incredible memories surrounding us. You take such good care of me and I am so blessed to have shared the last 730 days with you as Mrs. Kutcher… cheers to a lifetime of more love, more laughs, lots of adventures, and a million more puppy kisses.
I still vow to love you without caution. I promise to encourage you to chase your dreams, because through them your soul shines. I promise to laugh with you, cry with you, grow old with you in mind and spirit, and always be open and honest with you.
I will cherish you for a lifetime because one lifetime could never be enough.
Love, Jenna
Photos by: on3design
You guys are the inspiration for our own future marriage- I cannot explain how beautiful your words are <3 Happy Anniversary, Kutchers!
ugh this got me. Crying in the cubicle….
Honestly I’m not in any relationship to move forward to any type of commitment at the moment, but your words Jenna, I mean to the extent of how you express your emotions through words. It means the world to me and if I have half of what you and Drew have as well as an ah-mazing photographer to tell my ‘love story’ when the time arises (hint*hint) I will be forever grateful to whomever is above.