I love my husband, and I knew almost from the beginning that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him and be the mother of his children. We could have done that by just living together, but that seems so temporary - we wanted to make the commitment - plus, whether we like it or not, there's a stigma to being born out of wedlock that we didn't want to subject our kids to.
(Plus, I wanted an excuse to wear a poofy white dress
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