A very dear friend from high school (and a bridesmaid in my wedding) Melanie Mims and her fiance Will Curtis.
A Tri-Delta sorority sister at Tech, and one of the sweetest people I know, Lauren Savard and her fiance Jarret Scruggs.
A wonderful friend from high school, Becky is not only a blast to hang around but incredibly ambitious and successful- Becky James and her fiance Matt.
I am so excited! I have so many friends who are recently engaged and are about to get married! There was a big rush of gals who got married within that 6 month window after graduating college (that's when Brian and I got married), and now there seems to be another rush of friends who are 3 to 4 years out of school, have lived their lives and found the person they want to marry.
I am so pumped for these friends, and feel like I have so much advice to give them after being married for 4 years (Brian and I celebrate our 4-yr anniversary on Thursday!) It's crazy how much I still don't know and how much I still have to learn about marriage, but I wish I had listened to all that advice that you get right before you get married. "Don't go to bed mad"; "Talk about who's going to handle what within the household"; "Think long and hard about working with your spouse" (oh wait, no one told us about that last one!)
Anyhow, I think all of that advice you get before you get married, you accept with a smile and think in your head "I don't know what this person's talking about, we're never going to fight about THAT." Haha. Don't you wish! But in reality, you will have to learn all those lessons on your own, and no matter what anyone tells you, you have to live it before you can say "You know, I'd probably handle that different if I had the chance again."
This past year has probably been the hardest in our marriage (that's not saying a lot since we've only been married 4 years!) But we've had to deal with things that I never imagined: working together, having my husband be my boss (big one!), being unsure how we were going to pay the store AND the home bills, deaths of some close family friends that affect you more than you ever expected, wanting to start a family and not being able to, going through some pretty big spiritual growth times, moving and trying to decide if Brian should go back in to software. It's a lot to deal with, but you know, I would rather have hard times with Brian than easy times with anyone else. At the end of the day, I just feel SO incredibly lucky that God brought us together, and I'm so excited for my friends who are just starting this journey.
May God bring you as much excitement, joy and laughter as He's brought us. Congratulations!
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