Wedding closeup!

So I've felt like I was doing nothing but wedding stuff this past month! I was surrounded by centerpieces, favors, DIY wedding crafts, photo ideas, new engagements, other weddings, dress talk, mishaps that come up, showers, bachelorette parties-really the list could go on and on! Oh and none of this was our wedding related. You would think I would get sick of nothing but weddings right? WRONG-O! I loved it-it made me look so forward to Larry's and my big day. I'm definitely one of those where I love to learn from other's "mistakes" you can call them so I definitely learned what to do and what not to do for our day. One big one on the list: don't stress! I know that's really wishing the impossible because everyone gets stressed before their wedding, but if I've learned anything from these weddings-I want to make it simple, relaxed, and I want to smile. A LOT. I want to keep in mind that we're going to be married and together forever after that. I want to know that my big day was one of the happiest days of my life. One of my friends-Rachel-was literally glowing on her wedding day. I don't know if it's because I didn't see the moments right before they actually got married when everyone is trying to get everything into place, but all I saw was her smiling and laughing and being so happy that everyone could be there and eat their (oh-so-yummy) ice cream. That's exactly what I want!

Now that Skyler and Jena's day has passed I joke I'll give them a week before I go full Monty into our wedding talk. Theirs was VERY beautiful and I cried like a baby-but if you know me then you know that's no surprise. I'm a BIG crier, I cry at funerals (even if I don't know the person who died), weddings, some movies, and even books (though that's really only happened once). She looked so beautiful in her dress and he looked so happy to see her. The march song they picked fit them perfectly and just everything about their day seemed to go pretty smoothly, you could tell they had a good time. I was very happy to be a part of it and know I got to see it from start to end. I realized it's been about 3 years since I've done anything with weddings-just enough time to forget how much really goes into it so it's a good thing they got married before us-good way to jog my memory a bit.

We'll be doing our engagements on Friday, we went out and got outfits then I realized that I didn't like them and I liked what we had in our closet much better. But we do need to go get shoes-so at least I'll get to pretend it's kind of new still ha ha. I decided dress shopping will be put off till October since I'm not in a huge rush for that. I've been doing nothing but watching Four Weddings and Say Yes To The Dress on TLC these past few weeks and they have been useful to giving me a few ideas of what I want to do in our wedding. I also made a list the other day of what we need to do that doesn't involve the reception center. Since they are doing everything I thought it would be pretty easy, but the list was MUCH longer than I thought it would be so now I've got my lovely to-dos. Again, if you know me you know that's a good thing and I love lists :)

But for now, after everything, I'm going to enjoy this wedding-free weekend. Go visit family, get some house stuff done. Maybe go visit Stace (who is here for the weekend) and just relax and sleep..sounds blissful right about now :)

Until next time...