As a little girl growing up, I always thought that I would grow up and be so focused in getting ‘rich’ that I wouldn’t have time to think about the prospects of marriage. Well, life happens and we know that when life happens, things don’t always go our way. In fact, it almost always goes the opposite direction. lol [and oftentimes, never in the right way! lol]

Anyways, when I was planning to get married, I was so focused on just getting myself here to America for the wedding that it never occurred to me to focus on the small intricate details that make up a wedding. It wasn’t until at the end of our wedding dance, when Paane dropped me off to my hotel room did we talk about the ‘small details’ that was going to happen during our wedding reception the next day. We realized that it was probably a good idea that we choose a song as our ‘first song’ as Mr & Mrs Tonga… But, what would be our song? We came up with various songs – one of them being, “Look at Us” but we never made a definite decision on it. We decided that whatever the DJ plays tomorrow at the reception as our ‘first song’ that would be our song.

When we got to the reception, Paane’s Dad told us that instead of the DJ playing a song, he would have his cousin come sing our first song. I mean, it also never occurred to us that there could be a possibility of someone else singing our ‘first song’ live lol [this is where I tell you life happens and you just gotta roll with it] lol We stood in the middle of the dance floor and as we were taking in the moment, the singer started singing, “Look at us!” We started smiling at each other as we proceeded to waltz to the rhythm, knowing that fate has once again smiled upon us and granted us at least this one moment! Life happens! =)

And so, as I was looking for a title for my website – I thought it would be appropriate to name it ‘Look at Us’. It does not in any way mean that we are perfect in our journey through marriage, but rather as we come to embrace the changes such as ‘life happens’, we want to think that years down the road we will be able to look back and say, ‘hey look at us, we did it!”