The Couple Waited 9 Years to Open a Wedding Gift and Can’t Believe What They Finally Saw

It seems unfathomable that a bride and groom could not open one of their wedding gifts after spending hours adding the ideal items to their wedding register. One couple, on the other hand, waited nine years after their wedding day to open their final wedding gift.

Kathy and Brandon Gunn had a wedding present that had been sitting in the back of their closet for nine years before they finally unwrapped it in May. Kathy shared her story on Facebook, and it received over 12,000 likes and 1,500 shares after being featured on the Love What Matters Facebook page on August 29. (For further information, check the post below.)

Kathy revealed in her article that the gift was from her great aunt Alison and that it came with a note that said, “Do not open until your first dispute.”

“Throughout our nine years together, there had undoubtedly been plenty of conflicts, arguments, and slammed doors,” Kathy noted in her essay. “There were a few times when we both thought about abandoning up…but we never opened the box.”

So, what ultimately compelled the couple, who now have a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old boy, to open the present? They were sitting on their porch at their Michigan home, having a glass of wine and contemplating what gift to send to an impending wedding in Kalamazoo, when they discovered an unopened gift in their house. She said that the box remained unopened after all this time because they were “too stubborn and determined” to open it, despite the fact that they had surely had their share of disputes over the years.

She stated, “It drove us to rethink issues.” “Was it truly time to take the box out of the box? What if this isn’t our toughest battle yet? What if the storm gets any worse and we don’t have our box?!? ‘Nothing is ever so awful that it couldn’t get worse,’ as my Great Uncle Bill would say.”

They finally unwrapped the wedding present that night, finding two handwritten cards wrapped around two distinct bundles of money, wineglasses, a vase, and bath items inside. The two memos, addressed separately to Kathy and Brandon, offered detailed directions on how each of them should spend the money. Brandon’s note instructed him to buy flowers and a bottle of wine, while Kathy’s note instructed her to draw a bath and order pizza.

This thoughtful, imaginative gift went from gathering dust in the couple’s home to becoming a huge source of joy and education.

“That box remained high on a shelf in various closets gathering dust for nine years (and three moves), yet it somehow taught us about tolerance, understanding, compromise, and patience,” Kathy wrote in her essay. “As we became closer as best friends, partners, and teammates, our marriage grew stronger. We chose to open that box today because I finally realized something. I understood that the resources for building and maintaining a good, healthy marriage were always within us, not in that box.”

After their tale went viral, the Huffington Post interviewed Kathy and Brandon to find out what the most significant lesson they’ve learnt in their marriage.

“Life offers so many twists and turns at all of us outside of marriage,” Kathy told the Huffington Post, “and dealing with those challenges can be difficult without someone to count on, lean on, confide in, or cry with.” “Brandon is a constant in my life. I know that no matter what challenges I face, I can always count on him to be in my corner and me in his. It’s a lot simpler to get through life when you have someone who would always be there for you and would go out of their way to help you, no matter what day or time it is.”