Yes, today the 7th day of the 7th month of the year, Hubs and I are celebrating our 4th year wedding anniversary.
Has it been that long, both of us wondered? He claims it feels like 40 years (haha) but for me, it seems just like yesterday when I walked down the aisle with tears streaming down my face.
I should’ve followed my friend’s advice and should’ve sang ‘Tong, tong, tong, tong, pakitong-kitong…’ in my head to keep me from crying.
Up to the last minute, just before the church doors opened, I didn’t realise I would be overcome with emotion and I couldn’t help but weep. They were tears of joy AND sadness. Joy that I was finally marrying the man of my dreams and sad because I know that in marrying him, I am leaving my loved ones and all that is familiar to me.
Our anniversary also made me ponder on the vows we made to each other and realised that yes, despite our shortcomings and our faults and the challenges we faced along the way, we still are true to our vows and still are very much in love.
If you can indulge me, I would like to share with you the vows we made 4 years ago:
Simon’s Vows:
I take you C, to be my loving wife. I will always be thankful for you for coming into my life. You know my past and your aware of what I’ve been through, just as I have shared in the knowledge of your past and understand the events that have shaped you before we met. I will forever be thankful for your unique love and affection, as it is truly like no other I have known before.
Though at times we differ in views, tradition, outlook and opinion, I promise to always keep an open line for communication; to allow my pride take a backseat, to meet you halfway, to compromise or if really needed, graciously come to terms and agree to disagree.
I promise to always strive to provide a comfortable life for us and our children, and to protect you from harm whenever I can. I will share with you everything that is my own, and look forward to new challenges and experiencing life with you by my side
I will always remain faithful to you and this marriage; never needing any love other than your wonderful love, never wanting any touch other than your loving touch, and never having any woman other than the one I’m holding hands with this very moment. Your warm soft eyes and loving smile will stay with me every minute we are apart for the rest of our lives.
I will not only be the man of your dreams, but your best friend, someone to confide in, someone to lean on when you need to. I’ll stay by you and hold your hands with a smile in my face. Never forgetting these words I say, always remembering this very day.
C, I promise to be a loving husband and friend and give you a good marriage, not just your dream wedding day.
Christine’s Vows:
S, I take you as my husband, forever being thankful to the Lord for letting our paths cross and leading me to you, my true love.
S, I am marrying you today because I expect you to be no other than yourself. I love you for what I know of you and trust what I do not yet know. Let us cherish our individual pasts and look forward to embracing the life we will have together, never forgetting the qualities in each other that we fell in love with.
I promise to respect, honor and remain steadfast to our love. I will not ask what you cannot give but rather be thankful for what we have.
There will be times when we will have opposing views, outlooks and tradition due to the diversity of our cultures and background. I vow to always try to meet you halfway and compromise where we can.
I promise to always be open and honest with you, to allow you to know my innermost thoughts and my deepest fears because in so doing, can you truly know what lies in the deepest recesses of my heart.
And when you look deep inside my heart, you will know that no one could love you more purely or more completely than I do now. To no one can your happiness be more divine than it is to me and always will be. From this day forward, my whole experience, everything that lives within me, I devote to you. If I attempt to make myself better, this is done in order to become ever worthier of you, to make you even happier. I do all these because of you, my love. Your love is comfort in my sadness, quietness in the chaos of the world I live in, rest in my weariness and hope in my despair.
S, my love, you are worth the wait. You are worth all the heartaches and pain I have felt in the past. You are worth waiting 28 years for.
You know my past and are aware of what I have been through. You have shown me nothing but acceptance and understanding for everything that you know about me and for that, I will be forever grateful to you.
S, I do not promise to be the best wife in the world. However, I promise to love you the only way I know how – completely and unconditionally. This is my solemn vow because in you, I have found the one my soul loves.
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Patalastas:
For our anniversary, I received a gold bracelet (that I asked Hubs to buy) but got it a month ago and for hubs, I got him a year’s subscription of a popular motorbike magazine. As a joke because he knows how much I love opening pressies and because I have already received my anniversary present earlier, he both me 5 ginormous bars of Cadbury chocolate (white). Why, you ask? A few days ago, Hubs got a big telling off because he ate the last bits of my white chocolate bar that I have been saving (it takes me about 2 months to finish a small bar of chocolate as opposed to Hubs who can finish off a big chocolate bar in one sitting) till my PMS craving. To make up for it and as a joke, he bought 5 BIG (the supersize ones) bars and we almost fell off our bed laughing our heads off when I opened it last night. Tee hee! He’s so funny! I love him!
To celebrate our anniversary this year, we are watching War of the Worlds tomorrow night and going out to dinner and then on Saturday morning, heading out of town till Sunday on our own for some serious lovin’! 
We’re leaving Bea with my SIL.
2 months and 3 weeks to go till our Manila holiday! Yay!
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