Wedding Wednesday in the blogging world is one of my guilty pleasures. I looked forward to them before I was engaged, and now that I am engaged and actively planning my wedding, I’m addicted. I don’t even care if that’s shameful to admit! I have a few friends who have gotten married but none of my close friends are engaged right now, so I turn to strangers on the internet (who have quickly felt like friends) because they are feeling all the things I am feeling right now.
Wedding planning is fun, exciting, exhausting, exhilarating, emotional, and at times, lonely. I really don’t know how people do it if they don’t have flexibility or are unorganized (but I guess that’s why wedding planners exist!).
I figured I’d start by sharing a little about my relationship with my fiancé. He’s the most incredible partner and I am so lucky (and excited!!!) to be marrying him. We met in college and pretty instantly became best friends. After dating other people, we quickly realized we had feelings for each other and have been together ever since. 7 whole years to be exact!
Since we began dating as teenagers, I always knew an engagement was going to be long way off. Even though I knew just a few months in he was “The One”(sorry for the cliche), we were still kids and I had big dreams.
Growing up together has been one of the best parts of our relationship. We’ve gone through some MAJOR adolescent moments together and began figuring out how to adult together. Nick has always supported my dreams and never in a million years would ask me to give them up to just be a wife. There’s nothing wrong with that, and if that’s your dream, PLEASE by all means live it! But I have always wanted to be an actress and I feel so lucky to be living that dream every day.
We are going to be getting married in June 2020, which is much longer of an engagement than I anticipated. However, fairly recently after we got engaged, my mom suffered a stroke. I had a few other dates in mind, particularly in Fall 2019 or Winter 2020, but I took my mom’s sickness really hard. I couldn’t fathom planning without her and wanted to give her my full attention in recovery, so we pushed back our plans.
What’s funny about it all is that when we graduated college, I always said I wanted to get married in 2020 because it would look beautiful on an invitation. Life has a way of making things work out.
My mom has made almost a full recovery and I am so happy about that, so we are in full on planning mode!
I have lots of ideas for Wedding Wednesday and I appreciate you (mystery readers out there) indulging this one day a week. I do have a lot literary wedding ideas to dish out, so I’ll always try to tie it in!
Are you engaged or married? Or just dreaming or waiting for your ring? Let me know!
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