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1st Wedding Anniversary from Wife to Husband
What is your name : Christina Maly-Boardman
Who do you want the poem written for: My husband, Daniel Sherman
Maly-Boardman
Why do you want the poem written: To celebrate our first wedding anniversary (March 14th).
What are the key messages you would like to send: I appreciate how he is learning to deal with my mood swings and bring me out of the deepest blue. I love him more than I ever thought was even possible. He is my family. He is my future. I am looking forward to the adventures we have ahead of us . . . new careers, new homes and someday children.
Do you have any funny, sad, happy, embarrassing or otherwise memorable
moments that you would like to share: We have a baby (in our minds) Boo, our guinea pig. Boo is greatly spoiled by both of us. He has free reign of our apartment and squeals for attention. He is particularly excited when we have family cuddle time. We live in a totally CRAPPY, old cheap apartment. Is is "teacher housing" provided by the school at which he teaches. In the summer we have roach problems. In the winter we can see our breath in the shower. Year round having hot water is a crap shoot. We became licensed scuba divers together a couple of months before our wedding and earned advanced licenses this winter. Scuba diving is a shared passion of ours. My parents (mother and stepfather) are currently going through a divorce. We found out the day we returned from our winter holiday in Indonesia. I went home for 2 weeks without Dan to help my mother out a bit. I am having an extremely hard time dealing with this....it is my mother's second marriage (and now divoce) and I had always considered my stepfather as "dad." This has shaken me to the core in regards to marriage. . . I had always been a cynic before marrying Dan. These circumstances have troubled me deeply. While I do truly believe in my marriage, it has made me question the institution altogether. Dan has been unbelievably supportive, understanding and encouraging to me during this challenging time.
Do you have any other comments or thoughts: We met on my 5th day in Japan at a welcome party for new teachers of English. Dan had just finished his first year and was entering his second. He had dreadlocks, was a bit shorter than me and never thought he would get married. I had given up on ever finding a decent man to even date. After too many drinks and a missed train, he asked me to dance. Within 3 months we decided to marry. There was no proposal and no ring, we just knew. We had planned to elope, but under pressure of our parents (to meet their children's future spouses prior to betrothel)we flew back to the US and married on the beach, barefoot. We wrote our entire ceremony together, including vows. As one of our friends said,it was very egalitarian. We don't believe in wife/husband or woman/man roles. We are partners. We met in Japan, had our first vacation together in Thailand, married in Florida, honeymooned in Jamaica and just had another vacation in
Indonesia. We both hyphenated our names, as we are creating our own new family that is composed of both of us and our histories.
What style of poem would you prefer (happy,sad,romantic etc.): happy/silly with romantic undertones
Please choose which package you would prefer :Ribbon
Would you like a copy of the handwritten drafts:No
Do you have any last comments or thoughts: I would just like to ensure that delivery could be made to Japan by March 14th without any troubles. I think it is wonderful you offer your services to those of us who have trouble clearly expressing our feelings to those for whom we care most. Thank you.
Me and You
| Hello, my wonderful husband, these words are just for you, because I'm proud of who you are, and I'm very proud of what you do. And I just wanted to say "I love you", but in truth, I didn't know where to start, so I thought I'd share a few feelings, and give you some words, they're straight from the heart. Firstly, I'd like to begin by looking skywards, and thanking those in the heavens above, because I know I've been blessed to have shared you, I know that I've been blessed with your love. I also appreciate how you're learning to deal with my moods, as you know, I can swing from very high to pretty low, you have the ability to bring me out from the deepest blue, and those are depths that no one should ever know. I love you more than I thought was even possible, you are my family, my future, my everything, my all, and it's because of you I walk so much taller, in fact, with you, I feel like I'm about ten feet tall. I'm so looking forward to the adventures ahead, and to our future stories, as yet unwritten and untold, new careers, new homes and one day, children, so it's with you, I'm looking forward to getting really old. And Boo is already our squealing little baby, he too gets excited when we have our cuddle time, but despite us living in this crappy, old cheap apartment, we're still finding the reason in our rhyme. I know we have roach problems in the summer, in the winter we can see our breath in the shower, and year round, having hot water is a crap shoot, and we can get a cold drenching at any hour. But to be honest, none of that really matters, because we're in this, our life, together, and ours is a story of eternal longevity, in other words, it's one that'll last forever and ever. Look, I now realize that some things are not meant to be, and life is never easy, it's not a rose filled dream, but we can stick together, we can make the distance, we can prove to the world that we truly are a team. I have had an extremely hard time dealing with Mom's issues, to be honest, I've been shaken to the core and beyond, but you've been unbelievably supportive and encouraging, your understanding has been like my magic wand. Because from my deepest blues, we're now diving to deeper blues, but now we're talking about under the oceans, blue green, and it's beneath the dappled surface that we share our passion, and we've witnessed some of the finest miracles ever seen. Because within three months we'd decided to marry, thank God for too much alcohol and a missed train, because if you asked me to marry you tomorrow, I would do all this, without hesitation, all over again. Not that you had to ask me the first time, because it was innate, we simply just knew, there was no proposal, no rings, just us, and that's the hyphenated us, me-and-you. We wrote our entire ceremony together, including our vows, and in those, we indoctrinated the partner role, and I just wanted to thank you for being you, Dan, I do love you, with all my all, my heart and soul. I also wanted to say Happy First Anniversary, I guess that's really what these words are for, here's to you, Daniel, you're truly wonderful, and here's to me-and-you, for evermore |
Allen Jesson
Comments:
Allen, thank you so much! I wept after reading this. I suppose this is something you are used to by now. It is a wonderful first draft. There are just a couple of small changes I'd like you to make. They are in bold below.
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