7 Years Celebration! (Happy Anniversary to my main squeeze).

7 years ago today I walked down the aisle of the Michaelhouse chapel on my dad’s arm, to the sounds of Florence and the Machine. I remember feeling so choked up with emotion and on the brink of tears the entire walk down the aisle – whilst my dad was keeping an overly buoyant bounce to his step and quietly peppering in some dad jokes to keep my (his) tears from spilling over.

It was a day to remember for sure. We chose a Moroccan theme to our wedding – with copper pots, candles, jugs, bright colours, minimal floral, mirrors and glasses. Feels fitting now to be celebrating our Copper Anniversary together.

I was reminiscing with Warr this morning about things that I remember about our special day – which seems so long ago and also just like yesterday. UNFORTUNATELY given the big wedding photo-fiasco (read here) we don’t have a beautiful album to look back over, so it feels extra important to me to take a few moments each year to get something down about what I remember and how I felt that day.

One thing I remember so clearly was the absolutely MAGNIFICENT sunset that we had! We had finished our “official” photoshoot time and had headed over to the reception to mingle with our guests when the sky burst into flame. Our photographer was so excited about the sky that he rushed over to us to call us back again – because he just HAD to get a few extra shots with us in the incredible sky that had just turned. Warr and I clambered half way up a hill overlooking the Netherwood stud farmlands, and we somehow worked our way up onto a rusted barbed wire fence, with the incredible scenery behind us. Unfortunately, as we lost our wedding photos, I’ve had to do an artists recreation of what I think the pic would have looked like –

It was pretty spectacular.

He really had a FANTASTIC eye – our photographer, just not a very fantastic back-up process, ha! 😉 I’m very grateful to Warr’s sister who did manage to get one pic of us with that gorgeous sky!

We are celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary in quarantine this year – amidst the chaos of Corona virus. Warr got some breakfast pancakes on the go sneakily for us whilst I finished up teaching a zoom yoga class. And we will have a delicious dinner in, this evening – celebrating with the Copperfield gin my parent’s sent for us – We will even pour a GnT into the copper mugs I ordered which thankfully arrived a few moments ago.

It’s an interesting thing to celebrating at home without going anywhere or doing anything. But it reminded me of our very first anniversary which we celebrated at home too.

I thought for prosperity (and remembrance sake) I would do a little recap of all the anniversary’s we’ve celebrated up to this point –

6 April 2012 – The engagement
It was good Friday and you proposed to me with an epic-awesome engagement SURPRISE! (Story here!) It was a good Friday indeed!

6 April 2013 – The Wedding
So much to say, so little to show. Lol. SO MUCH LOVE. <3

6 April 2014 – Anniversary ONE, PAPER
You had planned a paper picnic in the park – paper plates, paper cups, paper napkins – everything paper. Wonderfully however, London decided to downpour on this day – so we had to have our first anniversary picnic inside the lounge. I made you a Paper book with All the things I loved about you. You bought me paper flowers. It was perfect.

6 April 2015 – Anniversary TWO, COTTON
I really wanted to go cotton picking, but had neither the knowledge of where, or the funds to make it happen – so instead, I woke up early, went outside to the communal garden and hid cotton balls in the bush for you to pick. It was lame. We both laughed. You organised us a trip to “Cotton’s Rum Shack” where we had dinner and cocktails. You also tied a piece of cotton to a gift and thread the end of it all the way around the house for me to follow.

6 April 2016 – Anniversary THREE, LEATHER
I organised us a date night after yoga at The Leather Bottle in Earlsfield. You bought me a new leather handbag and a leather bound journal. I can’t remember what I got you, (something leather and something with a bottle?) you can’t remember either, oh well, I hope it was good.
(Edit: it was the leather watch box that’s sitting on your drawers!)

6 April 2017 – Anniversary FOUR, FRUITS AND FLOWERS
I wanted to go fruit-picking in the English countryside, so I secretly organised with your colleague to get you a half day on the Friday. Mid way through your work day on Friday, I phoned you in a (staged) panic telling you that the water-pipe had burst (in the new home we’d just moved into) and that you needed to come home immediately to help me! You tried to calm me down over the phone (when silently I was killing myself laughing), and reassured me that you would ask your colleague if you could take the day off to rush home and deal with this emergency. You rushed home in an absolute sweat only to find me with the chilled music playing, an ice cold beer waiting for you, the shower ready (you had cycled) and a sign that said “SURPRISE! We’re going away!” To be honest you were still not 100% sure if you needed to fix the water pipes, but eventually I convinced you that it was all fine. We spent the weekend in Kent (in a very odd Air BNB lol), picking blueberries, strawberries and gooseberries. We bought our first piece of art (so grown up). You showered me in flowers and floral perfume!

6 April 2018 – Anniversary FIVE, WOOD
I bought a wooden wine box with a red wine in it, which will age well in 5 years… inside the box we wrote down our favourite memories from the last 5 years and I think (?) where we see ourselves in the next 5. We will open this wine on our 10th anniversary – which today is only 3 years away! For my gift, you made some inappropriate wood jokes and bought me a beautiful little bonsai – which I killed. Sorry about that.

6 April 2019 – Anniversary SIX, SUGAR/IRON
This was a tricky one! We both ended up buying each other sugar spoons! I bought a tiny little one with a bee on the end, you bought some sugar spoons which melt into your coffee. You also bought me an iron-rose. The iron rose was shit. We both agreed. We returned it. We went to Sugarcane Tiki cocktail bar in Clapham.

6 April 2020 – Anniversary SEVEN, COPPER
…and here we are TODAY! I ordered some copper mugs for us (In a hasty quarantine rush) and we will be celebrating at home as we are in the midst isolation. You haven’t gotten any coppery things for us, but I will let you off the hook on account of Corona. In any case, you have the rest of your life to make up for it and to be fair, peanut butter pancakes makes us almost square. 😛

Love you to the moon and back Mr Dyer, so lucky and grateful to be your wife. I truly think that our relationship now is better than it’s even been and I’m so happy! To the next 7!! xxx