Tomorrow, Bad Dad and I celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary. Well, we actually celebrated it last weekend with me drooling over Chris Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy, a delicious dinner, Ralph’s cream ices, and a full, completely uninterrupted night of sleep (le sigh). But we’ll celebrate again tomorrow—this time with the girls and way less sleep.

Over the years I’ve talked about our story a lot—how we met, what we think of each other, my wedding vows and how we drive each other crazy (which also happens to be detailed here and here)—but I can’t really let our anniversary pass without talking about it some more. What can I tell you? I’m a talker. 😉

This time I thought I’d share a few of the readings we used in our wedding ceremony. My husband loves books as much as I do and, being a writer, I took this bit of wedding planning very seriously. I didn’t want something typical and Pablo Neruda was an absolute must. I like the guy.

After a lot of back and forth and getting shot down more than a few times by my soon-to-be-husband, we settled on a few that we both loved.