Realizing we've been married for almost a year will come as a shock to many of you. We promise this wasn't an elaborate game of hide-and-seek – we just wanted privacy while we experienced our marital bliss. Now we would like to take this moment to say, "Surprise! We're married". A few days before our impromptu nuptials, we contacted our immediate family members and made them swear to secrecy until we were ready to tell the world. We then held a private courthouse ceremony with just us two and our photographer. It turns out, keeping a secret marriage is like trying to hide a giraffe in a phone booth – challenging, but oddly amusing. Amusing only in the sense that we tried really hard not to accidentally spill the beans. One of us definitely struggled with remembering to remove their wedding band before going to certain events, ha-ha. Our original plan was to keep our newlywed status under wraps until we could have a traditional wedding when the time was Wright...ahem..right. We envisioned our journey together in a particular order of milestones: getting married, buying a home, and eventually.. getting a goldfish. However, the goldfish may have to wait a bit because, of course, we just bought a house! As some of y'all may know, weddings are more expensive than a spaceship ticket to Mars, and we have a large group of people eagerly waiting to pop the champagne with us. When faced with the decision of a wedding or a home, we chose the latter because, let's face it, a home lasts longer than a wedding cake. Now that we've secured a mortgage, we're channeling our inner HGTV stars to transform our house into the Wright home. We're thrilled to finally share this news with you all and hope you can appreciate our decision and former need for privacy. We look forward to having a small reception at our home once the reno dust has settled. Invitations will be delivered via carrier pigeon – just kidding, it'll be an e-vite. Any updates can be found here on our website, which will be updated regularly, and we will be sure to send email/text alerts. Please make sure we have your current information. We do ask one favor of you, please do not reach out asking for a date, once we have it, you will have it. Feel free to browse our website via tabs (or menu bar) at the top of the page to check out more photos from our wedding day, our registry, and venue information. Thank you for your support, and for now, cheers to openly living our Happily Ever After. We look forward to formally celebrating with you very soon! Love, Mr. and Mrs. Wright