As I'm sure you've figured out from my previous posts, my wedding was on Saturday, October 26th of 2013. I got dressed up, had a beautiful wedding to start a beautiful marriage, had beautiful people by my side through the whole thing. I couldn't be happier with how everything happened.
I had all of these preconceived ideas of how the wedding should be; I would shed a few tears as I walked down the isle and said 'I do', Jonathan would have a single glistening tear drop as he saw me walk down the isle toward him, and so on. As you can see from the small description of my expectations, I wanted the fairy tale wedding that went exactly according to plan.
For any of you new readers, I feel I should let you know that close to nothing has gone as planned through this entire journey. It's been a tough road for everyone involved, but we made it to the destination in time, so I won't complain. No matter what things tried to go wrong in the days and weeks leading up to the wedding, it went perfectly. I marriage the man I love with all of my heart, so did anything really go wrong to ruin that?
My advice to all of the future brides who may be reading this: Do not go into the wedding with too many expectations. I don't mean that in a bad or insulting way, I just mean that (the ceremony itself, at least) it will go by so fast that you're not going to have time to notice when one minor thing goes wrong and there is a good chance you're not going to remember any of the little stuff that happened throughout the day.
This will be one of my last few posts, seeing as I am no longer making the wedding in the title of the blog. However, I will post another post or two with a few pictures that you may or may not feel like seeing and will link to my soon-to-be new blog taking place in the married life as opposed to engagement! Hope to see some of my followers on there.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Relief Sets In
Though I am still having no doubts, I have been continuing to be nervous. Today I went back to the seamstress for another dress fitting, only nine days before my wedding. It fits PERFECTLY now. I have shoes to wear with it. A couple of weeks ago I had no shoes and it would only zip up halfway. I would have married my Jonathan with or without my ($600) wedding dress, but I am very happy that I get to wear it with. My wonderful seamstress is just finishing putting the lace back together and stuff like that and I get to pick it up on Monday.
A word of advice to any brides who buy a dress that doesn't fit quite right: Do NOT go to the seamstress employed by wherever you bought it. They may know the dress a little better, but they will charge an arm and a leg, and maybe your head too. At David's Bridal, I would have easily paid well over $200 in alterations alone for what I was getting done. By going to a local seamstress, I managed to pay $85 plus tax. It's incredible. She's been doing it for around 30 years and still charges reasonably!
Anyway, I will try to post pictures of the whole shebang sometime in the next week before the big day.
A word of advice to any brides who buy a dress that doesn't fit quite right: Do NOT go to the seamstress employed by wherever you bought it. They may know the dress a little better, but they will charge an arm and a leg, and maybe your head too. At David's Bridal, I would have easily paid well over $200 in alterations alone for what I was getting done. By going to a local seamstress, I managed to pay $85 plus tax. It's incredible. She's been doing it for around 30 years and still charges reasonably!
Anyway, I will try to post pictures of the whole shebang sometime in the next week before the big day.
Monday, October 14, 2013
There Comes a Time...
There comes a time during your engagement where all of a sudden everything hits you like a sack of bricks. This time has come for me. For anyone who has read my previous posts, you can estimate about how long until my wedding, right? For those of you who are new here, I will let you know that I am marrying the love of my life in 1 week and 5 days, give or take a couple of hours.
I've been doing a daily countdown of the wedding, so you couldn't say I wasn't aware of how close the big day was getting. Today hit me harder than it has been when I realized, "Oh, sh*t! I am getting married NEXT WEEK!" Pardon my French, but that is word for word what went through my mind. Knowing that there are 12 days until my nuptials is a big thing to go with a small number. However, days can drag out and one day could seem like weeks in the eyes of a woman getting married. Knowing that it's next week all of a sudden made it feel within reach. It is making it so real for me.
Here is my to-do list of all the last minute details I need to figure out and do before the wedding:
I've been doing a daily countdown of the wedding, so you couldn't say I wasn't aware of how close the big day was getting. Today hit me harder than it has been when I realized, "Oh, sh*t! I am getting married NEXT WEEK!" Pardon my French, but that is word for word what went through my mind. Knowing that there are 12 days until my nuptials is a big thing to go with a small number. However, days can drag out and one day could seem like weeks in the eyes of a woman getting married. Knowing that it's next week all of a sudden made it feel within reach. It is making it so real for me.
Here is my to-do list of all the last minute details I need to figure out and do before the wedding:
- Go to the next town over to get our marriage license (today)
- Call our priest and make sure that everything at the church is set and make sure the rehearsal is scheduled (today, but he won't call back until tomorrow or later)
- Figure out how on earth I'm supposed to change my name and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeverything that comes with that (later, don't have the energy to research right now)
- Wait patiently for my packages to arrive with last minute things for the wedding ceremony (today and tomorrow)
- Tell Jonathan that I love him and that I am glad to be marrying him. (Today-next Saturday)
- Calm the heck down!
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