I met The Chef.
We are still in love. Fancy that.
Sixteen Years Ago Today…
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Tag Archives: Marriage
10th Wedding Anniversary
Today marks 10 years of marriage to The Chef! I wish that we could do something fantastic to celebrate, but alas! During a pandemic, it truly is enough to have each other and our love (so corny). Cheers to us…and anyone else celebrating something important during these awful times.
Dance in the Country by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1883)
Wedding Anniversary: 8 Years of Marital Bliss
The Chef and I were married on 11 December 2010. I love him more than ever (saccharine, I know).
Postcard, 1908
Daily Diversion #390: Anniversary Getaway
A few pics from our quick anniversary getaway to Hocking Hills…
Little cabin in the snow
Wreath
Cheers!
My Word! You Do Tickle Me.
Today marks exactly seven years of marriage to The Chef.
When we started dating, we lived in different cities. All of our early conversations were through the Internet (where we “met”) or phone.
My word! (Postcard circa 1910)
As such, I find the postcard couple (above) completely adorable. And, after seven years of wedded bliss, still entirely relatable.
Daily Diversion #321: Tres Leches Cake Hot Tea
On Sunday morning, my fine husband made me some fabulous, tasty tres leches cake hot tea. He’s a keeper.
Tres Leches Cake Hot Tea
I Was in the Middle Before I Knew That I Had Begun
I’d like to wish my husband a very happy fourth wedding anniversary!
Engagement Photo. November 2010.
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
[Alternative Muses] Creative Couples: Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper
“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”-Anton Chekhov
Playwright and short story genius Anton Chekhov and actress Olga Knipper had a short, independent, mostly long-distance marriage. It began with a low-key, very private wedding in May 1901, and ended with Chekhov’s tragic death three years later. Neither career was sacrificed to the traditional dictates of matrimony.
“Give me a wife who, like the moon, won’t appear in my sky every day.”-Anton Chekhov
“And what does it mean–dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.”-Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
“In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.”-Anton Chekhov, The Seagull
Anton Chekhov died on 15 July 1904, with his wife by his side. Olga Knipper outlived her husband by nearly fifty-five years.
[Book Nerd Links] Three Fun Links for Your Reading Pleasure
- The 10 unhappiest marriages in fiction [courtesy The Telegraph]
- How to Make Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Burger [courtesy People]
- LEGO literature [courtesy Waterstones.com]
Three Years Ago Today I Married My Love
Our wedding ceremony was cobbled together with rock and roll and bagpipes and honest poetry, love and tears; there were no vows, except to bluntly say, “I do.” If the act of marriage itself is not promise enough, then an oath is meaningless armor against the inevitable.
Bells Are Ringing
I DO NOT LOVE YOU EXCEPT BECAUSE I LOVE YOU BY PABLO NERUDA
The Chef and I are somewhere on this spectrum of cute coupledom:
Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge, May 31, 1921
Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in Sullivan’s Travels, 1941
Rod La Rocque and Lillian Rich in Braveheart, 1925
Bride and Groom by Amedeo Modigliani, 1915-1916
Garbo and Gilbert in A Woman of Affairs, 1928
Larry and Viv, 1938
Claude and Alice Monet
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