A marriage is made up of a million moments and a million memories. It’s a jewel-ridden path, studded with adventure, dreams and challenges. It’s everything that you create together; your home, your family, your community, your career. It’s the journeys you take, the places you travel to and how these experiences change and grow you. It’s everyday rituals like making the morning coffee for the other, or knowing just how to nurture each other at the end of a long day. It’s domestic partnership and all the small things that go with that like who takes out the trash and who writes the thank you notes. And it’s the big things too like learning how to listen to one another and how to communicate.

The path of your marriage includes your friends and family, the people who love you. This rich union is an opportunity to find meaning in your lives and provide a way for you to learn, year after year, what your vows are really about. It’s every time you leave the house and walk back in again and the way your marriage must find a way to nurture and hold you as you navigate your journey into the world.This book is an opportunity for you and your partner to sit down together on your anniversary and look back on your year together—for ten years. It’s a chance to reminisce and to remember the magical moments, the times that were the most meaningful, the most fun and the ones which brought you together in the most passionate ways.

Consider creating a yearly ritual on the day of your anniversary when you can both sit down and pull out the calendar of the year behind you. Then, as you go through the list of questions and categories in the album, look through your notes to recall the major events and moments of your year together. How did you spend your birthdays? What was the best thing about that camping trip to the desert? Why did you both love that play so much? Can you include the walk you took afterwards and how the sun looked as it set on the water? Sure.

This book is a a documented road trip of ten-years of your life together and it should resemble everything that is quirky and wonderful about the two of you.