"Are You Ready for Marriage?"

Two years ago, I faced the mirror and asked myself: "Are you ready for marriage?"

How I end up saying yes? Well...

There are guidelines, standards or checklists that people unconsciously use to see if they are qualified enough to tie the knot, and as an engineer I can compare marriage in constructing a structure. It required careful and well analyzed preparation of blueprints, document papers and financial sources.

We as a couple contemplate this new prospect in our lives by having realistic discernment of blessings and costs of being married. Thinking like can you skip "these" to avail "these" kind of stuff... Like be together more and less together with pals and friends... More of WE and US than ME, MYSELF, I...

Preparing the BIG DAY is a BIG challenge! I know! Been there, done that! And it literally cost me a tear or two... :' )

BUT, maintaining the husband-wife relationship years after the vow and signing of papers is way MORE challenging... Like they say, it takes you less than three seconds to say "I Love You' but a lifetime to prove it!

The keys:

wholehearted commitment, LOVE and RESPECT

Although solemn oath of commitment is quite frightening, the realization of one's affection to the other will help to conclude that it is not a burden to carry 'till death do us part, but as a source of security that we'll stay together as one 'till the rest of our lives...

By marriage, we shout to the world, we legalized, that we intend to stick together.

We've been a couple for five years before jumping into the wagon, & I can say we invested a lot. We're not in a perfect relationship, nobody does... and we have our share of sweet and sour moments...

Two years ago we concluded that it's time open the next chapter of our lives, the highest level of our relationship, to become

the bride and the groom...

the husband and the wife...