Welcome to Our Present Journey! It’s been a whirlwind learning how to set up this blog the last few weeks. Not sure why we thought it’d be easy! We do have to admit one small thing though – we are fairly private people and this is way (waaayyyy) out of our comfort zone. It’s not something we ever thought we’d do, but after struggling some years to find a perfect present for each other, we figured that our experiences might be able to help one of you who is also having difficulty finding that special gift.
Our love story began many years ago… We were attending different colleges in different states, although we actually grew up about 20 minutes apart, when we were introduced to each other through mutual friends. We immediately hit it off on some common interests like sports and travel, and even though we lived a few hours away from each other at the time, we kept in close contact through text messages (this was in the T9 days- if only we had today’s technology!) and as frequent visits as we could fit into our schedules and budgets. Thankfully we at least had summers and holiday breaks to spend quality time together.
A few years after graduating we got married on December 27, 2008 in a suburb of New York City. We picked this day because it was the anniversary of our first date together! It was a relatively small wedding by NYC standards (around 100 people) but everyone in that room meant something important to each of us. Our first dance was to a song by Journey (hint hint about the name of our blog!). As you can read, we’re pretty sentimental people. It was at our wedding where our anniversary gifting tradition began and through this site, we’ll share each of the presents that we’ve given each other for years 1-14 and hopefully derive some inspiration for our upcoming 15th anniversary!
Now as we said at the beginning, we are private people, so we won’t be sharing any information or pictures about our children or anything else specific to our lives. But we will be posting pictures of some of the gifts we’ve gotten each other and we hope that we can connect with all of you as you start your own Present Journey!
