#AuthenticallyAmbiance 10 years a Wedding Planner...Forever His Girl!

Happy Anniversary Me!!!! Last week, my husband and I celebrated 14 years of marriage. FOURTEEN!!! It is an absolutely crazy feeling! I mean, I like him...like really, really still like him. And he still likes me.

This year on top of Diamond Head-Hawaii

See, I did all the things we do when one declares they are ready to find love. I made a list of qualities of my dream avatar man. I prayed and prayed and prayed a little more. Then I matured and leaned what it meant to trust GOD and his timing. A lesson I still struggle with but much less than before. And BOOM! There he was. It turns out, my husband had been there the whole time. He has always been apart of my life, I just didn't recognize him as my life long love until later on. What's funnier, is that he knew...he's always known.

This isn't a gimmick to get you to keep reading,  I am not joking or exaggerating. My husband proposed to me long before I recognized he was the love of my life.

We met when I was 15. We went to high school together. He was a grumpy old soul that did not enjoy his family's migration from the Windy City to the sweet, southern drawled South. I wasn't the nicest chick on the block either. I wasn't in the mood to be phony and fake in order to get boys to like me...or the girls.

We've been mad cool ever since.

Even though, it wasn't until college that our friendship grew into something more; that didn't stop him from proposing via yearbook when I was 17. Yes, there's proof.

quick snap of year book message

So what has this journey been like? I can tell you that love really is patient and kind...(1 Corinthians 13:4-13). Marriage is finding your right fit. Marriage is waking up everyday knowing that you are accepted for exactly who you are. In my case, quirky, crafty, and every now and again, a little crazy. C'mon, I plan weddings for a living. How can I not be?

2016 American Mothers Reception-DC

Marriage is a series of moments you couldn't possibly enjoy with anyone else, any other way. It's tv shows you'd never watch on your own; but when he laughs...it makes everything right with the world. It is rolling your eyes but kissing him anyway. It's deciding not to do Christmas presents or celebrate Valentine's Day because every day kinda is.

Marriage is ordering 1 of everything from the donut shop she's been dying to try. It's feeding him fries while he drives. It's an intense game of Uno, in the bed, after the kids have gone to sleep. Marriage is pillow fights and guilty pleasures big and small. And several come to Jesus meetings on a variety of topics, lol.

The Mr and I don't know it all but we do know that we wake up and want to do this with only each other, day in and day out. That is marriage.

I am so lucky. I wake up every day and get to be me. That's it. It is the most refreshing, confident, and beautiful feeling on the planet. What I love about my marriage is what I want for yours. I want to be apart of  nurturing a blossoming love. At the end of  "I do"...fourteen years into your Forever After, I want you to know what I know. I want to reflect on your moments. I want us to toasts glasses {clink, clink} and say "this is SoOoOoOoOo worth it".

After 10 years of planning weddings, I can tell you, this isn't just a job...it is my lifestyle.