Marriage - What a Blessing!

I was looking at some of our wedding pictures these days. It was so much fun! I wished all of you could have shared that moment with us. It will soon be 4 years... Time flies. I do not have the professional pictures on digital data, but these are some of the shots our friend, LeeAnn, got during the wedding day. She was with me the whole day, so you can see the process of me getting ready!
God has blessed me with a wonderful husband. Like every little girl I had dreams of having a happy family, of being in love with my man, of encouraging and trusting each other at all times, but to tell you the truth, I never thought it would be this good. I am so blessed!!! I want to share our love with all around us, especially in Japan, where couples are not happily ever after and where marriage is seen as a symbol for family, and nothing more. I want to see them understand that you do not get married just to get settled down and look stable, have children and fight about their needs. I pray they can understand what God meant when He created marriage. Two people become one flesh! How powerful that is!!!
All I want is to honor God with our marriage... I want to respect and admire Mansur forever. And I want to be the wife described in Proverbs 31. The following verse is stuck to the kitchen cupboard at home, where I can always see it and remind myself or who I should be: "A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence on her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life."
























Below is the hotel we spent two nights at. Since Mansur's family was in Brazil, we did not go anywhere for honeymoon right after the wedding. Half a year later, we took our first trip abroad as a married couple, we spent a month in India!