30 years ago today!  

I look at this photograph of the two of us and on the one hand we seem impossibly young and on the other it seems like yesterday.

On the whole the past 30 years have been kind to us, we are both basically healthy, we have a house in an beautiful part of the country, we have enough of an income to allow us to enjoy life and, most importantly, we still love each other.

Looking through the photos in the Wedding Album is bittersweet.  There are so many good memories attached to the day, everybody is happy with smiles that reach right to their eyes, everything is before us and what can possibly go wrong.  But 30 years has taken its toll.  So many of the people who were in the photos have died in the intervening years.  Leigh's parents and mine smile out of pictures with happiness and pride.  Now there is only my mother left and I know today will be full of happy memories tempered with the sadness that my father is no longer here to share them with her.

Friends whose relationships we thought were rock solid have long since divorced.  So many people we have lost contact with over the years and we wonder what happened to them and hope that they are happy.  The two beautiful little girls who were my bridesmaids are now in their mid 30's, older than I was in this photo, and have children older then they were then.  There are also photos of people who have remained friends to this day, people who have been part of our lives for all of our lives and whose friendship we treasure.  People who as they go about their daily life demonstrate that commitment to each other and a willingness to work hard at a relationship that changes continually means that a long and happy marriage is possible.

Tucked away at the end of the formal shots is a candid snap of a friend of mine meeting a friend of Leigh's.  They had never met before the weekend of our wedding.  We'll be celebrating their Pearl Anniversary in a couple of years.

Oh and for anyone who has read this far and is wondering why I'm blogging about our anniversary instead of out there celebrating it Leigh could not get the time off work.  Tomorrow and the rest of the week he will be home and we will celebrate but not today.  And to be honest after 30 years celebrating one day late makes no difference whatsoever, we are together and looking forward to the future, if it is as bright as the past 30 years than it is certainly something worth looking forward to.

 


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