Marriage: Year 1

One Year Later

Mr. & Mrs. Diondray Sanders 

EST. 10.5.12

Well, technically Dion and I will celebrate our first year anniversary on October 5th, but I figured I will go ahead & write this blog post since we will be in and out out town the next few weeks.


Wow. One year. Seriously, where does the time go? First I'm engaged, and those 10 months of engagement just drag by because I was so excited to be Mrs. Dion Sanders, and then our perfect wedding day flies by and here we are with one year of marriage under our belts.

I can't and won't say that marriage has been easy, but marriage also is an amazing, crazy ride that you get to take with someone who chose to take it with you. Dion and I have been "together" for 3 years now. Dion and I always knew we'd get married, and half of my friends joked that we were pretty much married before the day we got married. We've always been glued to the hip, and honestly has always been our policy. My advice for future married couples, those dating, and those engaged is to get honest. You seriously cannot live a life with someone if you keep things from them. Dion and I know each other deepest and darkest secrets, and although our pasts are not pretty, we both accept them as they are. We still choose to love each other because we both know we wouldn't be who we are without them. So again, my advice is get honest with yourself and get honest with your spouse.

Marriage is can be hard, because even though it's just you and your spouse, it's also you, your family, your spouse and his family. It's definitely hard to make everyone happy, but we've learned that what comes first is us, and what we decides together determines what we do. The best advice my sister and my dad gave me on my wedding day was that Dion and I are now a family and our family comes first, and that nothing comes before or above us. Dion and I have learned that we can not always make everyone happy, and we will never be able to make everyone happy, but as long as we're doing what we decide as a family, the rest will fall in place. So some more advice, make your decisions as a couple.

Now, let's get to the fun of marriage. I absolutely love getting to come home every day to Dion. I love the way he can crack me up after an awful day, and how he reminds me not to take life so seriously. And how I remind him, he sometimes needs to take life a little more seriously. I cannot even express in words how opposite Dion and I are. He is loud, outgoing, funny, and loves to dance and just be silly. I am quiet unless I know you, I loathe dancing, and I am way to serious for my own good. I love good food, Dion would stick to McDonald's if I would let him. I will say that we both love a clean house. I sometimes joke to him, that the only reason he married me is because I scrub clean way too often. Then there are the few areas we are the same. We LOVE Vampire Diaries, he's probably embarrassed I'm saying that, we love going to the movies, and we love not leaving our couch on our days off together.

Marriage is not easy, it's work but it is so worth it. We both work at it, daily. That why I feel so many people get married and divorce. Their idea of marriage is roses and happiness, which IT IS, but it is also a choice. You have to choose to love, serve, and respect your spouse everyday. Dion and I have been through some trying times this year, but I wouldn't change it and I wouldn't go back in time and not be married to him. God brought us together, and with God and our work we will stay together. I am so grateful to have spent an entire year with the most amazing man and I am so grateful that God blessed me with this man. Happy 1 Year Sweet Man!

And I added a few wedding pics for the heck of it. :)