A letter to my husband on our 5th anniversary

Dear Trevor,

Five years of loving you has never went by so fast! We’ve done so much together, grown so much together, and are somehow the same people and different people at the same time. After over five years together I love that we’ve been able to change and become better versions of ourselves while loving each other every step of the way—that’s truly what makes our relationship so great!

When we first got together we were young, straight out of college, inexperienced adults working our first corporate jobs. We’d both recently moved hundreds of miles away from family (and everything we’d previously known) to go out on our own and figure out life. And boy were we truly just figuring it out. So much of our beginning stages of our relationship were us just winging it. From moving in together and finally canceling my own lease, to buying our own house together in less than a year. It feels wild looking back on it now because even though we didn’t know what we were doing or if we were making the right decisions we DID KNOW that we wanted to do it together by each others’ sides.

September 22, 2018 was the day we got married. I remember so much of it but also feel like I forget so many parts too. One thing I distinctly remember was not being able to sleep a wink the night before. Not because I was nervous to marry you, but rather because I was so excited to marry you! I knew without a doubt that being with you for the rest of my life was what I wanted to do.

Now that we both work in the wedding industry there’s so much that I know about planning a wedding that I would change about our own. But in the moment, everything about that day was so perfect! It still is—when I look back on our wedding day I am only filled with amazing memories. From getting the barn ready with all of my girls while you men did God knows what (haha), to having our hairstylist show up over an hour late (later to find out on the news that she was a wanted criminal scamming brides left and right), to finally walking down the aisle to see you just squinting into the sun on the other side, and ending the night a little more intoxicated than I had planned, I still can’t help but smile knowing that that was the day I became yours and you became mine. 

So, Trevor, five years later and I was just as giddy waking up this morning to jump on you in bed and say “Happy ANNIVERSARY!” as I was when I gave you that first kiss and said “I do.” In five years we’ve moved across multiple states, built a business together, made big purchases like a new vehicle, been blessed with the most amazing little boy (and another on the way), and have talked our way through any hardship in a way that’s only brought us closer. Looking back on our life together so far I am astounded at what we’ve been able to accomplish together in just five years—imagine what we can do in five more!

Here’s to forever! Love, Danyell