On Sunday, Dan and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. While I was getting ready to go out to dinner, Dan surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of red roses!

lovely red roses from Dan

We then drove over to San Francisco and enjoyed some cocktails on the rooftop of Medjool in the Mission. It was a pretty clear day, and we got a breathtaking view of the San Francisco skyline.

Dan and I on the Sky Terrace of Medjool, overlooking San Francisco.

We then headed over to Foreign Cinema, which was only a couple buildings down, and enjoyed a delicious romantic dinner. It was our first time at the restaurant, but everything we had tasted amazing. We didn’t stay late enough to catch the movie showing in the courtyard, but the dining experience in itself was lovely.

Happy One Year Wedding Anniversary!
One Year Anniversary Dinner at Foreign Cinema

a romantic evening
Outside Foreign Cinema after a romantic evening.

It was, all in all, a perfect evening.
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It’s already been a year since our wedding back in Northern Virginia, and at the same time, it seems longer than that. Within just this past year, we’ve shared so many more memories together as newlyweds — experienced both happiness and sadness together; we’ve gained and lost along the way — but what matters is we did it together, and it’s true when they say that through it, joy is doubled and sorrow is halved when you share it with each other. But most of all, we cannot forget that we owe it to the love and support of our family and friends that we are here today, happily married and every much in love as we were on our wedding day.