awvows

This is goodbye!

Send a DM if you’d like a free copy of the “antidote to writer’s block” cheat sheet that I created (for use during the brainstorming stage of vow writing), and don’t hesitate to screenshot or share anything I’ve posted that resonates.

For couples I’ve worked with, I feel particularly close to you, so if you wanna stay connected is where to find me.

Love big and love long my friends 🫶🏽

Today’s my brother ’ birthday and this time next week is my son’s 3rd! I had to find a way to bring y’all into the celebration 🥳🎉

Love you

I’ve warned people (sooo many times now) that when it comes to including absolutes in their vows, like “always”, they need to be super careful…but here’s how it COULD be used well:
✅ if it comes with a disclaimer
✅ when it’s also an intentional commitment you WANT to be held accountable to
✅ if you already have a pattern of doing that thing in your relationship
✅ when it’s a part of a saying you have or an inside joke
✅ if it’s more than just poetic and leaves room for humanity/imperfection (this example in particular just hit me today and I love that it insinuates that .snider deserves so much gratitude, even if I don’t recognize it in the moment or express it right away)

Some highlights from last month’s date nights:
A game where we listened to the new album , chose our favourite song and had to buy something from that made us think of a specific lyric. It only took each of us two tries to guess correctly 💁🏽‍♀️ we obviously celebrated by sharing our delicious choices 👌🏽
for the best we’ve had in ages
installing a sound system in our new home gym and listening to with and while we painted together 😍

This piece from .too.shabbi is a daily reminder that we’ve come a long way and still have a long way to go.

In our second year of marriage, Mitchell and I spent over 365 days saying what most people would call : “I am loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, good, faithful, gentle and self-disciplined”.

When you get into a relationship, remember your goals as individuals AND the joint identity you want as couple. How do you want people to feel when they’re around you (on your own and together)? What do you want your family to learn with/from you?

In case you missed the reel —> Swipe for some tips on how to do Q.T. with youngins (and examples from this weekend’s trip to Canada’s Wonderland).

What reminds you of your wedding day?
Or if you’re not married, what around your house reminds you of the people/person you love most in the world?

This is the arrangement made for our arbour (which Mitchell designed and built from scratch). I love seeing it on top of our piano as a reminder of that dreamy day.

Also pumped for you to turn my bouquet into earrings I can wear to work everyday 🫢

With mat leave coming to a close, the amount of reminiscing I’ve been doing has at least doubled (which is A LOT, since my ‘normal’ is a little extreme already 😬) loll

You’re sitting around a campfire and the ink to yourself “I could marry this girl” or “he’s so dang beautiful in this light”…write it down. Worst case scenario, you delete the note 🤷🏽‍♀️

Best case scenario, you remember exactly how you felt (but multiplied by 200) when you wrote about that thing they do, those words they said, those 🦋s you felt, etc. and write the best marriage vows!



Shout out to my father-in-law for snagging this picture on our lastest family weekend away 😍

Truly living the dream with you .snider (even with the interrupted sleep tonight and random weeping sessions as I reflect on this past year of mat leave with the two of them home). 🥹

We’re just not our best selves when my phone goes missing 🙃🫣🤣

Let’s just say Mitchell would’ve made a great detective and I’d be an expert at karate…if apologizing was how you got a black belt 💁🏽‍♀️😅