The Scott-Clark Family: Our second 4th anniversary!

Rob and I were fortunate enough to have two weddings. The first was in December 2006 and this is technically our official anniversary (this year it will be our 5th Anniversary and I'm sure I'll put a big post up about whatever we do then). On 27 October 2007 we had a second wedding that was basically a big party where we said some self-written vows and had lovely readings.

Both days were spectacularly special. I highly recommend having a wedding. Getting married changed very little for Rob and I as we were already living together and have never had enough money to worry about how marriage would effect us this way, also being non-religious we felt no need to marry for spiritual reasons. We married and had a wedding because we wanted to celebrate with everyone we cared about.

I recommend weddings as opposed to marriage for the reason that both my weddings were such special days, not because I got married, but because everyone Rob and I loved were all together in the same place. There is no other time in my life when this will happen, and for us this happened TWICE! That feeling is indescribable, you feel truly loved and happy. That is my only advice to people: if you get the chance to, have a wedding.

We planned the first wedding quickly and only immediate family of mine could make it, my mom, dad, sister, and her boyfriend. The October 2007 wedding was more for my family and friends though a lot of Rob's family were able to come too and it was incredible. That was four years ago, yesterday.

Since then Rob and I have celebrated both anniversaries, in some way, normally we do something small for the October date and something a bit more special for December. This year I planned to make Rob a lovely lemon cake, economical and filled with love. I wasn't expecting anything from Rob, other than a nice dinner or a bunch of flowers. Instead, Rob surprised me with a beautiful book we saw at the London Transport Museum about a plan to have each tube station tiled, Tiles of the Unexpected (geeky, I know). It's a very sweet and personal gift as it was something I said I'd enjoy in passing.

Feeling guilty that I didn't spend as much or even take the time to think about something that sweet for Rob, I set about making what I thought would be a fairly easy lemon cake. About 2 hours into the detailed instructions I realized this cake was much more effort than the book and my guilt subsided... phew! I'm not posting pictures as it's not very pretty, but I've made two so I might post pictures of the second once it's decorated.

Anyway, Rob made a fantastic chicken stir fry for dinner and we spent a quite evening in eating and watching TV. It was a very nice anniversary. And just for nostalgic sake, here are a few photos from the day four years ago. Thanks to everyone who made that day so overwhelmingly lovely for us.