I read an article recently that suggested that marriages fail more often when couples live together first. The article claimed that when you live together without marriage you know you can always leave if things get rough. So when marriage feels exactly the same as just living together and life doesn't change at all, the same feeling of loose commitment can linger: if this isn't fun anymore, I can just move out without trying to fix it first.
Every day since our wedding day we've taken a second out of whatever we're doing to snap a quick photo of the two of us with our camera phones. Some of the pictures are really funny, some are downright bad, but it's such a great way to document our lives. Our plan is to take a photo everyday for a full year and then put all of the photos together in a big scrapbook. We had the first month's photos printed by PostalPix last week, and they're so fun! I love this project a lot!
Another simple thing we decided to do is go on a "date" on our anniversary every month for the first year of marriage. This is another really easy way for us to stop and go, "yeah, we're totally married, and that's awesome!" Our one month-versary was last week and we decided to try a new restaurant that we hadn't been to before. It was so much fun to get dressed up and be excited to do something special together, just like we were newly dating.
Do any of you do something else to try to make marriage feel special and different? Leave a comment, I'd love to hear all of your ideas!!
xoxo
Kerry
Presently, I can not offer advice on how I'd make my marriage feel special and/or different because I live a life of absolute sin. But, I still wanted to comment to say you two may be the cutest married couple ever.
ReplyDeleteOh, and will you one day make a compilation album of sorts showing your daily photos? That would be pretty dope.