Love Letter Box

One thing that Mike and I decided to do as we prepare to get married is write “love letters” to each other. The love letters can be anything really, but primarily they’re supposed to express why we love and chose to marry each other. The idea is that we won’t read the letters right away. We’ll put them in a box, the Love Letter Box, and on our anniversary we’ll read them. It’s supposed to serve as a reminder of how happy and in love we were at the time of our wedding. Times will be tough, that’s inevitable. Not always, but sometimes. And I think these letters will help us remember where we started and why we’re together even when things are hard.

Each year we’ll read the letters and each add a new one, and the next year we’ll do the same thing, and so on. In each letter we can reflect on the past, write hopes for the future, offer thoughts on the present. Whatever. So they’ll also serve as a timeline of our relationship.

I think it’ll be a great tradition for me and Mike, and it might also be something really cool for our future children and/or grandchildren.

The other cool part is that I asked my dad to find us a box. He has access to a variety of boxes, like wooden wine boxes, etc. We didn’t want to buy anything, and we thought it would be more special coming from a family member anyway. But he took it one step further. He told me the other day that he’s working on making some kind of box for us!

Maybe someday our grandkids will discover in an attic an old box made by their great grandpa, filled with love letters written by their grandparents…