Wedding Blog

On our two year anniversary (the year Mr. Candy Corn proposed), I gave Mr. Candy Corn 365 Hershey kisses, each one with a note inside wrapped around it, with reasons why I love him (it may not sound like a lot, but 365 reasons were pretty hard to come up with!). It took me months to do this (unwrapping and re-wrapping the kisses with the neatly-written note). I put them in our “happy box” that I collaged with things that reminded me of us.  Anyway, Mr. Candy Corn opened the happy box sometime last summer and discovered where our random roaches were coming from (we’d find one once a month or so). The box was infested with hundreds of roaches (AHH!), so we had to throw all of the Hershey kisses away.  It probably wasn’t the most well thought out anniversary present on my part.  Note to self: next time use Tupperware!

Luckily, I had written down all of the 365 reasons in a notebook so Mr. CC could look back on them. I decided to share them with the Weddingbee readers, to give you folks a sneak peek into our somewhat bizarro relationship.

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1. You always give me a reason to wake up smiling
2. You make me happier than ever to be alive
3. You write me cute messages in the after-shower mirror steam
4. You pout if I see a movie without you
5. You don’t mind walking around with a hole in the back of your pants
6. You let me cry in your arms for as long as I need to
7. You walk in the freezing cold to buy me orange juice and chicken noodle soup when I’m sick
8. You kiss me as soon as we wake up, despite my morning dragon breath
9. You trust me
10. You picked me to be with for the rest of your life
11. You’re marrying me despite my nutty family
12. You’re always nice to lunch ladies and even make them cards for the holidays
13. Your feet are funny looking
14. You helped me like myself more
15. You motivate me to be more artistic
16. You’ve turned your life around to be with me
17. You let me have the last say when we’re renting a movie
18. You hold my hand in the movie theater
19. You need to be spooned
20. You speak so kindly of your mother
21. You’re devoted to the few lucky people you call your friends
22. You have jingle bells boxers
23. You’d sit on long train rides to visit me, just for a day
24. You love music so much it makes you cry
25. You get excited to cook for me
26. You worked at KFC throughout high school and still aren’t sick of their chicken
27. You care about skin treatment more than any woman I know
28. You love death metal AND Journey
29. You cuddle your stuffed monkey, Ronaldo
30. You’re passionate about politics
31. You don’t let things get to you easily
32. You aren’t afraid of dancing like a nutjob in public
33. You leave the seat up, even after I’ve asked you not to for years
34. Your smell lingers on my clothes
35. You like monkeys
36. vh1 countdowns make you do a happy dance
37. You make me mix cds and are extremely anal about the flow of them (most of the time)
38. When you have a cold you’re the cutest thing ever
39. When I have a cold you take days off from work and school to watch over me
40. You always save the last Oreo for me
41. You want to take me to that cathedral in France that you love
42, You always come with me to NYC, even though it makes you anxious
43. You’ll sacrifice a night of sleep for a phone call to me
44. You don’t like cheese, which I somehow hate and love at the same time
45. You don’t care if I gain a zillion pounds and blow up like a blimp, you’ll still love my blimpy butt
46. You make my family excited for me
47. You have constant typos when chatting on AIM
48. You call me the weirdest nicknames ever
49. You watercolor with me
50. You don’t have to study hard to get an A
51. You flushed your glasses down the toilet. Twice.
52. You love talking to me about the philosophy of art
53. You would’ve taken Hatha yoga with me if I didn’t think you’d have a major problem of farting while stretching
54. You love to make a scene because you’re an attention whore
55. You know how to relax me
56. You only wear white socks (ew)
57. You had one nipple pierced until it got gross and infected and became the equivalent of three nipples in one!
58. You’re supah dupah hairy
59. You like your shower water insanely hot
60. You make pepperoni and broccoli sandwiches
61. When you used to steal tea from the dining hall, you were always really obvious about it and the lunch ladies would just shrug at you
62. You constantly lose things, get really worried, and then find them in a really stupid spot
63. You have ADHD and yet always pay attention to me when I’m talking
64. You take forever to wake up
65. You have to rub your feet together or you’ll fall back asleep
66. If I ask you if you’re tired when we both know you are, you’ll say “no” and within minutes you’re snoring on my shoulder
67. You don’t hate me when I ask you to put the obnoxious football announcers on mute
68. You kill thousand leggers for me and deal with my crying fits when one scampers into our bed (!!)
69. You make this cute face when you put food that’s way too hot in your mouth
70. When you eat spicy food it makes your nose run
71. You have a 12-inch double-sided pink dildo that you bought to hit people with
72. You hit me with it
73. When you sleep alone, you wake up in a tangled mess of sheets
74. You let me pick your nose when you have a booger. In public.
75. You are always nervous about being on time
76. When you get nervous, you do a little foot jittery thing
77. You always try to remind me to take my birth control pill, even though I already have because I’m super stealth
78. When you’re moody you won’t admit it
79. You poop more than anyone else I know
80. You eat Cheetos on the toilet (ew)
81. You wrestle me and never let me win
82. You play UNO with my Grandma and always let her win
83. You make me ridiculous cards for special occasions, which usually involve foam and glitter
84. When you’re really really excited about something, you jump around and do a giddy scream
85. I usually know when you’ve farted before you do
86. You practice death metal growls in public parking lots and don’t mind the frightened reactions
87. You draw the most asinine things in Paint
88. You blow your nose in the shower and deny it, even though I can blatantly hear you being gross
89. You have flat feet
90. You let me take the window seat
91. You don’t say no when I ask if we can have another pet
92. You don’t let me watch you pluck your eyebrows
93. You trust me enough to cut your hair, even though I have no clue what I’m doing
94. You get excited about vending machine beef jerky
95. You know the names of every single model on American’s Next Top Model, from every single cycle
96. When you’re thinking hard you squint, put your chin on your fist and tilt your head slightly…I didn’t think people really did that before I met you
97. You watch cheesy movies with me like When Harry Met Sally
98. You have hundreds of Magic the Gathering cards
99. You have the longest eyelashes I’ve ever seen
100. You are the least flexible person I know. You can’t even bend down to touch your knees
101. You make obnoxious noises when you sneeze and never cover your nose/mouth
102. You find joy in airing out your man bits after showering
103. If I’m in the passenger’s seat of a car and you’re in the back, you always ask to hold my hand
104. You have a certain side of me you like to always walk on
105. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy tends to make you cry like a big goober
106. You watch What Not to Wear with me and tolerate me mocking you for doing so
107. You always eat Tums like they’re candy
108. You never screw the cap of lids back on right
109. You walk funny
110. When you play wiffleball with my family, you stick your butt out super far
111. You always look confused
112. You need background noise to sleep comfortably
113. You leave me messages in the shower made out of strands of hair
114. You give me a massage when I make my sad puppy dog pout
115. You wrote angsty poetry in high school
116. You love history
117. You’re ridiculously forgetful
118. Your car horn is the saddest sounding horn I’ve ever heard
119. You gladly dressed up as Santa for my family and didn’t think twice about our not-so-normal holiday traditions
120. You gladly dressed up as a gay elf several years later
121. You would sleep through fire alarms if I don’t wake you up(to be continued…)

Has anyone else written a list of reasons they love their hubby-to-be? It’s definitely a fun exercise for writing vows if anyone needs to do some brainstorming!