two
On Friday the 11th of June 2004 (two years ago today), Jacob and I stood together in the barrel room of Mills Reef Winery and Restaurant (Bethlehem, Tauranga), and in the presence of some of our good friends and family, we were married.
Today being Sunday, and being rather a busy day for us, we decided to celebrate our two years of marriage yesterday by doing some of the things we love most: we went to 'La Cigale' french style markets in Parnell, and had some traditional paella for lunch; went wine tasting at fine wines and brought a bottle of Craggy Range Block 14 Syrah; enjoyed coffee together at Brasil on K'Rd; watched 'the Breakfast Club' on DVD; went out to dinner at 'Delicious' in Grey Lynn. Yes, all of those things in one day!
It can feel a bit false to pick a particular day to commemorate your relationship (we ignore Valentines day for this very reason), but I honestly feel like the time we spent, and the things we chose to do together do say something about who we are, and our relationship to one another. These were not 'special' things that are out of the ordinary for us, but things we do together often. These are things we chose to do to celebrate, not our wedding day 2 years ago, but the relationship that we have now, today.
I will leave you with Jacob's words to me on this day, two years on...
Two.
Two souls.
Two years on.
Two, meshing, morphing, joining.
Two becoming one.
Two together.
Two.
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We actually only watched the end (we had watched the rest Friday night, but stopped to watch Rove.)
Jacob would like to add that we did also watch Little Fish with the Ritchies, (I forgot to put that in.)
For a review of Little Fish see:
http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/312
It was very nice. Aside from my lovely wife and the life changing message from the internationally renowned guest speaker, the 'blood of our Lord' was a particular highlight.