First wedding anniversary

Tomorrow is our first wedding anniversary! I can't believe a year has gone by already. It doesn't feel like we've been married for a year, but maybe that is because we had the big wedding day on the 3rd January, but really got married on 30 August last year already.

We decided to get married sooner because at that stage we were still going to go to the UK and it would have helped André to get a visa easier if we were married since I've got an EU passport.

We had a very small ceremony, only our parents were there and my sister knew about it too. But nobody else. We already had our wedding organised for 3rd January and didn't want to spoil that day. We didn't want people to think that since we're already married then it's not such a big deal. We still wanted that to be a special day too.

So we had this first ceremony at our house in Melkbosstrand. It was really special having such a small ceremony with our parents. Especially also having my dad there since he couldn't be there in January.

Afterwards we had cake and tea and champagne with our parents and then André and I went for a one night honeymoon, since we had to be back at work again on the Monday. You can read about our stay in this cosy little cottage here.

It wasn't easy keeping it a secret and it was hard for us to decide who to tell and who not. If we told some family we'd have to tell all the family and if we told some friends we felt we'd have to tell them all. So that's why we decided not to tell anyone. The minister was going to announce it in the chapel on our 3rd January wedding day, but then we decided it might not be such a good idea giving people such a shock! So on Christmas we told our families and then tried really hard to get all our friends together for a new years party and surprised them then.

We've had a fantastic first year being married. Definitely a very interesting and exciting year!