BRINGING UP BATES’ Lawson Bates Celebrates First Year of Marriage With Music Video
By Movieguide® Contributor
BRINGING UP BATES star Lawson Bates and wife Tiffany Espensen are celebrating their first wedding anniversary.
“Marriage is one of those things you never can fully plan for,” Bates shared. “It’s been a rollercoaster. We feel like we’re still on our honeymoon to a degree. We have traveled so much in this first year, and that was one of our priorities. You’re only in that first year once.”
He continued, “We are getting to know each other more personally every day. I feel like there’s always new layers in marriage to discover. And in 40 years, hopefully it’s still as beautiful.”
The couple also shared a lesson they’ve already learned: “Don’t ever put together furniture … together. That was probably our biggest back-and-forth sort of thing so far,” Bates said.
“The Lord opened up a great opportunity for us to buy a fixer-upper,” he continued. “We did everything. We pretty much ripped it down to the studs and added new floors, new roof, new siding, new windows, new kitchen, new master bedroom — all of that. We wouldn’t have been able to do it without a lot of help from my brothers and a lot of my family.”
The couple’s first year of marriage has even inspired Bates’ music career. He has just released a new single, “Vows.” He wrote the song for their wedding, but decided to share it with the world this year.
Bates spoke about the then-unreleased song to Us Weekly shortly after the wedding, saying, “This isn’t like anything I’ve ever done before. I feel like it matches Tiffany’s personality more than anything that I’ve written for her.”
“Vows” was recently released, along with a music video featuring the couple.
“We have been thrilled to see how you are connecting with the lyrics + message and weaving it into your personal love stories. It means the world!” Bates wrote in an Instagram post about the single. “I’ll keep doing my best to create art and stories through songs that resonate and connect with each one of you!”
