Mark and Priscilla are celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary today
May 19th. The couple have a daughter and expecting another child. On his
page this evening, Mark shared on how they had surprised their family
and friends with their wedding, as well as the one lesson he has learnt
in marriage. Read what he wrote after the cut..
Today is Priscilla and my five year wedding anniversary, and I want to
share a fun story about how it came together.
Yesterday was the five year anniversary of Facebook's IPO. Now you may
ask, who would plan their wedding for the day after their IPO? Good
question.
Priscilla and I wanted a low key wedding so we decided to make it a
surprise and have it in our backyard. I sent our friends and family an
email telling them I was throwing a surprise party for Priscilla to
celebrate her graduation from medical school. Since they thought it was a
surprise for Priscilla, they kept it quiet. When they showed up at our
home, I told them we were getting married. It was a great day.
One side effect of having a surprise wedding is that Facebook's CFO who
was managing our IPO process had no idea we were getting married. With
IPOs, the process goes on for a while and you just go public when
everything is ready. When I originally set the date for our surprise, we
had no idea when the IPO would be.
I remember the day David, our CFO, told me the IPO process would
conclude on May 18. I was shocked. I closed the door and asked if it was
possible to maybe do it a few days sooner. He said it wouldn't be ready
yet. I asked if maybe we could do it a week later, and he told me that
May 18 was the day it would be ready so it needed to be that day. And
that's how our IPO came to be the day before our wedding.
The wedding was really special, but, as you know, our IPO wasn't exactly
smooth.
Priscilla and I took off on our honeymoon, but I wanted to be with our
team when things got rocky, so I cut our honeymoon a few days short.
Instead, I promised Priscilla that every year we'd have a honeymoon to
celebrate our marriage.
That brings us to today. Some years we've gone to Japan or France. This
year we're traveling around the US and we'll be spending our honeymoon
in rural Maine. One lesson I've learned from marriage is that exploring
together just gets better over time.
Priscilla, here's to a great sixth year of marriage and perhaps some
better planning in the future!
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