My Life With You

Honestly, a little late, but things haemve been crazy.

But 8 months of being married to this guy.

We've had our ups and downs as of late due to stressful situations, but we always manage to come back to level ground and forgive and forget. I think that's one of my favorite things about him, we can argue and voice our opinions and have heated arguments but at the end of the day, he and I have overcome it, and things are right in the world.

Mayday!

MAYDAY!!

It’s happening. We got our license but we still need drinks and alcohol and wedding insurance (which is a stupid thing that I need to buy, and I have limited funds)

Money is stressing me out the most, really.

Things that need done:

Get boots

Get dress altered

Get alcohol

Get jeans for the guys

Get our marriage license (yay!)

Get wedding insurance (if you’ve never had to do this, or it was included in your venue, congratulations, you’re a lucky one.)

Pay vendors

Wait for RSVPs

Contact vendors and finalize everything

Pick wedding music

Get hair style figured out

Figure out wedding nail styles

Figure out makeup styles

Get pop

Get linens

Get more cups

Pretty much everything else is done. I’ve just waited so long and I’ve been putting off so much of this stuff that I’m now regretting it. Also, I started a new job last week and finally mailed out my wedding invitations two days ago. And we decided to do a bridal shower, and that’s a separate thing to stress out about now.

Regardless.

Don’t ever procrastinate. I am theeee biggest procrastinator and I am PAYING FOR IT NOW. And with procrastination comes stress, and stress headaches, and heartburn and weight loss. It’s miserable. I’ve had help from my mom with most of this because I’m at a loss of what I need anyway, but her and I have planned this WHOLE THING SINCE NOVEMBER AND I WISH I PICKED A LATER DATE NOW.

Just late night ramblings. It’s 5:38am, on a Sunday, and I’m exhausted from work.

Things have entered into massive stress mode. We don’t have a caterer yet, but everything else is basically done. The ring bearer and flower girl need their outfits still, and we have all the centerpieces done. So much money has been put into this wedding, that looking back makes me sick. We could have used this money for other things we need.

We ended up cancelling the court date. But only because we opted for a physical ceremony and reception.

Wedding planning blows. I ignored every aspect of it this past month and now that Christmas is done I’m on crunch time. I feel nothing will get done at all. 😰

And my MOH is no help. She works a lot and I don’t and there’s so much I have to do and need help with that I wish she could help with.

A week of being engaged.

Non-conventional, as I knew the past three months of the engagement, and I even picked out my ring because your mothers (which I didn’t look at until mine came in) did not fit my fat little finger. No one really knows about that but us, but now that I am making it public, a lot of people will know by now. I mean, who even picks out their own engagement ring? Me. I do. It’s not how I would have planned it, but I hate being surprised, and my five year old kind of spoiled most of the proposal back in June.

So lets talk about the proposal, which I couldn’t have planned as well as you did.

We went back to where we had our second date a year and three months ago, the lake where we sat on the dock, ate subway and stuck our toes in the water. It has now become our dock which we have frequented several times since. The water was receeded, and we were going to go fishing. I had McNuggets in hand, and a blanket and my fishing pole, and you had your bag of stuff and your poles.We set up and you pulled out some candles and some wine. It was at that moment I knew that it was happening. You grabbed your laptop from the bag, and set it up and showed me the video of our niece, my five year old, and my friends and family all giving me well wishes, and asking me to say yes to your question. It was emotional, and it was perfect, and obviously I said yes.

We set the date for December 13th, to go to the courthouse and get married in front of close family and friends, and we decided to do a vow renewal in the spring with an actual ceremony and reception. I wouldn’t want it any other way. There is no reason to wait. I want to begin the rest of my life with you, and I want to document it the best way I know how, with this blog. So, once a month, or when a monumental thing happens, I will blog it, and decide on a date for you to read it, if you haven’t found it already.

I love you, future husband.