Hi friends! This past Wednesday was mine and my wife’s wedding anniversary. Neither of us are super into cake (and wedding cakes are expensive and never actually good) so at our wedding we had donuts. So, for our anniversary this year we got some donuts and did our annual reread of our wedding vows.

We wrote our own vows together, where we both read the same thing to each other with some differentiation at the end. I remember our vows being easy to write because when we decided we were going to start dating seriously, we sat and set up some ground rules. Rules don’t sound like fun, I know, but for us, relationship rules were so necessary. We both had bad behavior in past relationships that we didn’t want to repeat. We wanted to set each other, and us as a single unit, up for success.

We return to these rules frequently, not only on our anniversary when we read our vows. They offer a roadmap and some guidelines and most importantly, they serve as a reminder about what is most important to us.

I’ve written about a couple of the lines from our vows, but since it’s our anniversary, I wanted to share the full text with you all.