For those of you who are married….if you had to add up the total amount of time that you spent planning your wedding day, what do you think the grand total would be? Between cake tasting (in my opinion, this should last at least 6 hours), meeting with vendors, trying on dresses, addressing invitations, and creating time lines, how much time do you think you spent on it all? 40 hours? 80 hours? 300?
And how much time would you say you spend celebrating, working on or enhancing your marriage? An anniversary dinner here, a little card there, maybe a night out at the movies…
My point is this: people spend so much time preparing for the wedding. Insane amounts of time. And yet, after the wedding, those same people fail to put that much energy into their marriages. They stop talking, don’t take trips together, they stop trying to be the best husband or wife they can be, they get lazy and the amount of quality time spent together dwindles to almost nothing. Then they wonder why the divorce rate is so high in our country.
Well, I think that’s silly. Marriage is exciting, it’s fun, and quite frankly, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done in my entire life. Something so important deserves to have a little extra attention put on it. Whether you’ve been married for a week (yay Jenn and Adam!) or 35 years, it deserves to be celebrated, documented, worked on, talked about and honored. All the time!
As I get off my soapbox on marriage, I’m heading off to Oregon with David for our 10 day Oregon Anniversary Extravaganza! Yes, I named our trip. We’ll be doing lots of camping, laughing, hiking, picture taking, sight seeing, laying on the beach, relaxing and celebrating the best thing that ever happened to us.
I hope you too will spend some time enjoying and celebrating your marriage. It’s kind of a big deal and it deserves a little extra attention. 
I took this shot of Tuesday's sunrise. The smoke from California's recent fires have made for some glorious sunrises this week!
by Becky
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