Our Story: Our 8th Anniversary

 Yup, that's us.  Thats baby-faced Ashley and David on our wedding day, eight years ago (as photographed by Rebecca).  Each year I think, I don't have to post anything about our anniversary this year but then I am just compelled to.  It's what we do for a majority of our living - spend 7-10 hours most Saturdays at a wedding.  Weddings are always on our minds and are a part of our daily life.  What few people talk about and remember is that the wedding is an event in the journey.  Your marriage will stretch far beyond that day, and a marriage is hard work.  Many marriages, for whatever good or bad reasons, don't make it.  We've watched friends and clients experience a lot recently.  We've been through several events in these eight years that would normally break two people up, and it hasn't always been easy but we have fought hard for this.  We talk and talk and talk.  We work together and play together.  We try to give each other space to be who we are, while working hard to also come together as a unit and consider each other.  We do fail at these things sometimes, but I don't ever want us to stop trying.  Did we fully know what we were getting into eight years ago?  I don't think so.  But that's ok because we grew together, and continue to grow together, trying to figure it out as two, not just one.  All we needed to know was that we chose each other that day eight years ago, and then we could wake up the next day and choose each other, and the next.