It's time! It's time for the REAL countdown! The time that the nerves settle in, craziness begins, my phone is attached to my hand... emailing, calling, taking notes, finalizing... You name it!
We are down to the last month of wedding planning and it's happy and exciting but also so bitter-sweet. In the movies you see the fun, energetic bride with her big planner and heading off to meet with the wedding planner... Everything is perfect and stress free. Okay... That's not real life! Wedding planning is stressful, busy, expensive, and loooooong. We have been planning for a little less than 1 year now and it's finally down to the last month. I am relieved, exhausted, happy, excited and sad... All at the same time. You'd think I was a hormonal pregnant woman! I want to keep planning, I want to add more ideas and have a big extravagant wedding day.
Well, I have visions of my wedding day and I can honestly say that I am planning exactly what I've always dreamed of. I have always wanted a beautiful wedding like the one in The Wedding Planner... Not to mention, having Jennifer Lopez as my wedding planner... But I am so excited for our winter wedding. I want snow and sparkles and glitter galore! Dan and I agreed on all of our decor and I can't believe it was so easy! (thank goodness!) I couldn't have pulled this off without him. We are making final decisions, putting the peices together and in the end it's coming to life.
....34 MORE DAYS!
On a more mushy-gushy-lovey-dovey note, I was reading a blog tonight and it really hit home. Getting caught up in the marriage idea can be easy to fall into. It really made me think, "Why am I getting married?".... (Trust me, this isn't bad... But keep reading!)
(Insert from the blog I read. See link below to read full blog... It's beautiful)!
"...My dad giving his response to my concerns was such a moment for me. With a knowing smile he said, “Seth, you’re being totally selfish. So I’m going to make this really simple: marriage isn’t for you. You don’t marry to make yourself happy, you marry to make someone else happy. More than that, your marriage isn’t for yourself, you’re marrying for a family. Not just for the in-laws and all of that nonsense, but for your future children. Who do you want to help you raise them? Who do you want to influence them? Marriage isn’t for you. It’s not about you. Marriage is about the person you married.”
I realized after reading the blog that I am getting married because...
I am madly in love with this man. The day that we met we hit if off (at the bar of course but it was fun!) We had so much fun together, we had fun with all of our friends... We laughed together, we played and joked and went on a ton of dates. We started dating on New Years Eve and sealed it with a kiss at midnight... He's such a romantic man! We became parents together... It was love at first sight for us both. Seeing him love another human being made me fall more in love with him. Love grows... We all hear the saying but watching it happen, feeling it happen is different. Feeling yourself love someone more each and every day is incredible. We fight and argue like all couples in the world and even on those days we love. We look at each other and laugh at how stupid we're acting. We look at our daughter doing something silly and we laugh, and hug each other. Knowing what each other is thinking, "we created that..." We created the love in our daughters heart and the love in her eyes when she looks at us. That makes me want to marry this man. I want to marry him so we can have a beautiful family... A family that loves like mine does. A family that we can take vacations with, and have fun with like we did when we first met (minus the bar part)! I want to marry this man because I see the man behind the eyes. I see him when he's at his best and worst. I love him through the hard times and I am cheering him on during his best days. I want to marry this man because he's there for me. When I am hurt, sad, or need a friend. He makes me laugh, he makes me happy and most of all he makes me love being a mom and a fiancé.
Well... Happy wedding countdown month! 34 days and counting! Let the fun begin!!!
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