Living the Newlywed Life | Our Story

Living the Newlywed Life | Our Story

Oh, the newlywed life. You hear about it growing up a little but when you're engaged, the idea of it hits in full force. Most people talk about how much fighting happens in the first year of marriage as two people try to link their lives together for the first time. A few will tell you how exciting it is to finally be together, and how much of a blessing it is to be married.

Everybody's experience is different, but our first year together was thankfully marked by happiness and excitement, with just a few fights thrown in there for good measure. It's nearly impossible to have major life changes without conflict, but I do not believe that newlyweds are doomed to a full year of nonstop fighting…

Those First Few Months | Our Story

Those First Few Months | Our Story

Whew! We've finally reached the point in our story where we're married! If you missed our actually wedding day, just click here to get caught up!

The first few months of marriage are infamous for being some of the hardest. It's hard to fully understand why until you're actually married and/or living together. You are two people coming from very different places in life with different families and your own way of doing things. Most of the things I do that are different from Nathan are things I just thought everyone did, so I did not expect conflict!

Our Wedding Day! | Our Story

Our Wedding Day! | Our Story

After a very long engagement, I couldn't believe it when our wedding day finally arrived. I could talk in detail about every decision I made and everything I chose to do and not do, but when it boiled down to it I know I made the wedding our own. I chose things that we wanted, even if it wasn't the most popular thing at the time (we got married in January, for example!) and I loved every detail.

Although we did not choose to have first look (which were not even popular at the time!), Nathan and I did have breakfast together the morning of our wedding. I'll never forget just looking at him and thinking, "He's going to be my husband in just a few short hours!" It was so special to me, and definitely one of the highlights of the day…