What’s in a ring?

Sometime this week, K and I mark our paper anniversary. The question family and friends have asked me most in our first year of marriage is this: ‘What is the difference from before you were married?’. Oh, then followed by ‘When are you having a baby?’.

My answer to the first question is generally ‘Well, there’s more responsibility now that we’ve signed on the dotted line’, to laugh a little nervously, skip the second question and  then swiftly move on to another subject altogether. Not that I do not believe enough in the sanctity of marriage to know it’s no laughing matter, but because I genuinely do not have a well-considered answer.

I’m simply learning, savouring and loving being married. To him.

So I find myself caressing my wedding and engagement bands absent-mindedly, remembering this past year and asking myself this: ‘Indeed, what is the difference?’

Nothing.

Everything.

Photos courtesy of the über-talented Mindy of Mindy Tan Wedding Photography