STYLE: Intentional Layering (Ankara With Isi Agu Print)

I’ve drafted this post seven times and I am not even joking. I don’t know what angle to come from because my thoughts are not exactly coherent at the moment. Style? Marriage? Family? Layering? Parenting? It’s everything. Actually, it is about everything that I have come to realize in this 7 years of being married to the love of my life. 

Yes, on this day seven years ago, I handed wine to my husband and became traditionally married!

The Art of Intentional Layering 

Not to sound cheesy but I am so thankful and blessed to be married to Kachi. I’ve heard a lot about the “7 year itch” and how it’s the year of the highest divorce rate. I TOTALLY get why. By year 7, most couples probably have two children. And two children really does change a marriage in a way that one child doesn’t.

However, for me, I can truly say I’m more in love with my husband now than I was when I gave him the wine to drink in my father’s village compound seven years ago and I can’t wait to see what the future will bring for us!

We definitely cannot celebrate our marriage without celebrating the three magnificent blessings entrusted to us that bind our love even more: Our children. When I look at them, my heart feels so full. I am simply overwhelmed with the thought that my husband and I are given gifts of this magnitude. Two beautiful girls and a lovable boy. Two sweet girls and a special boy. Three wonderful souls to protect and love.

Perhaps this post is to remind us as parents that it is good for our children to be a part of the celebration because they are a part of us! And we are influencing their perceptions of marriage every single day.

This was what we wore to church today; Ankara with Isi Agu Print…

I’m wearing a short black dress on a straight long Ankara skirt. See that? Layering. Marriage can be just like styling with layering. It takes two individual pieces and makes them look like one cohesive outfit, marriage blends two unique individuals into one unified expression. Hmm!

Layering isn’t just “putting two pieces together.” It takes intentionality. It’s about proportion: Volume vs slim • Bold vs simple • Long vs short.

Contrasts create beauty when layered intentionally.

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Seven years in, I can honestly say marriage is an art. It’s messy at times, beautiful at others, and always layered with love, patience, grace, and joy. Having Kachi by my side and our three wonderful children alongside us, it’s a life I wouldn’t trade for anything.

The longer we are parents together, the more connected we become. The inside jokes. The secret smiles when the kids say something funny. The moments only we share. I love those times. I love when we DO have a chance to just be together just us. I love laughing together. I love planning our future together. I am so blessed to have a husband who sees the bigger picture. We are both big picture people and we know our lives may be interrupted now, but we savor it all because we also know how quickly these days will pass.

I am still so in love with you, Kachi.

Happy Tradiversary to us!

Cheers to more!

Meanwhile, you might like this ANKARA FAMILY STYLE.

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Posted by Nwamaka Onyekachi

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