When Beyoncé announced her recent pregnancy earlier this year with a Madonna-inspired photoshoot directed by Los Angeles-based multimedia artist Awol Erizku, setting a new Guinness World record as the most 'liked' image in Instagram's history, you could've predicted any future milestones in the singer's life would be marked with similar OTT grandeur and jubilation.
Let's not forget this is the woman/mastermind behind the Grammy Award-winning visual album, Lemonade, for goodness sake. She's a bonafide goddess.
So, it comes as no surprise that the expectant mother has celebrated her ninth wedding anniversary with husband, Jay Z, with the release of a new music video.
Yesterday, Beyoncé posted a short version of the video for her 2015 single 'Die With You' (which she originally released to celebrate her seventh wedding anniversary) but this time she added never-before-seen clips of her and Jay Z's Christmases and holidays together, as well as footage from Blue Ivy's birth and her current pregnancy with twins.
During the clip, Beyonce can be seen kissing her husband, holding his hands on a yacht and getting the Roman numeral 'IV' tattooed their wedding fingers to mark the date of their wedding and their birthdays, which both fall on the fourth of the month.
It seriously is one of the most adorable videos we've ever seen posted by the star, and that's saying something.
The 35-year-old also posted several images from the music video with the song lyrics, 'I don't really need these fingers if I don't get to touch your spine' and 'I don't need air in my lungs if I can't sing your song'.
If that wasn't enough (and, when is it ever enough for Queen B?), Beyoncé also shared a specially curated playlist for her husband on Tidal – the streaming service owned by the rapper – which features tracks from the likes of Aretha Franklin, The xx, Coldplay and Stevie Wonder.
Beyoncé's mother, Tina Knowles, later took to the social media platform to congratulate the pair's anniversary, with a picture of her adjusting her eldest daughter's dress following her wedding vows.
She captioned the post: '9 years already??? Congratulations to the Carters on their Anniversary'.
If this is how B celebrates nine years, imagine what she'll do for 10!
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