Wedding Recap

The wedding pictures are in!! The wedding pictures are in!! Let the wedding porn begin!!

I’ve written a little about the wedding before, but it was an incredible amount of fun. We had 27 guests with us, had a wonderful ceremony (we mentioned nachos in our vows, I love this kid!!), and goofed around the whole day. The meal was outstanding – outright outstanding – and we were up to our knees in quite, private moments between Mister and I.

It was small enough that we were able to just relax and have a good time, my stage management instincts were in overdrive, and I had planned and scheduled out plan A’s and B’s so that everything was drama and concern free. Our ‘head table’ was essentially a kids table where we just laughed and chatted the whole meal though. We went to my dad’s house afterwards, had a cutting of the cupcakes, and then made off in our limo to a plush hotel.

It was so much fun.

I’m of two minds about putting my pictures up here, I feel like a lot of the time I’m not posting memes or silly things, but revealing a lot of myself. It’s a little overwhelming sometimes, and as I’m feeling more private today I’ve chosen a few fun pictures that will give you a little taste of our day without over sharing.

What to within your first half hour as a married couple?

Take your very hot wedding party out for milk shakes!!

I always thought that being engaged would be so romantic – being in a constant state of intention, and that there was something very special about that. And there was something really nice about it, but once the planning started, you move from a state of intention into a state of focus that is really different than just being engaged. Wedding planning is a lot of things: exciting, sweet, exhausting, frusterating, emotionally charged and tiring to name a few.

Once we had a clear idea of what we wanted, being able to just drive towards that from start to finish in four months was the only way we could do it. After we got engaged, the idea of waiting a year or two to be married seemed nothing short of absurd. This was the perfect way for us to do things.

The only imperfection is that neither my work or Misters has allowed us to take more than 3 days off in seven months, including the wedding, honeymoon and the move into our first home. No one should go through this – even in a low energy 9-5 job it’s beyond exhausting – you need a break. Mister and I have been sick, tired, and exhausted for weeks and while it’s starting to go away slowly the feeling of needing time to sleep, process, and be private without having access to those things has been terribly difficult. I still find it very upsetting, and am struggling to find a way to get that feeling of privacy and calm.

This process taught me a lot about myself – I don’t like fuss, I like things short and sweet, and Mister and I have very similar philosophies. And being married? It isn’t different at all. We are just us, individually and together. It hasn’t changed us, we just spoke some words that confirmed the marriage we started building a long time ago. Since we met we have been engaged in a state of intention – it just evolved over time.

Thank you so much to everyone- having a small fleet of people who are caring and insightful, who e-mail me if I’m having a bad day, who I laugh with and connect with on a daily basis is a hard thing for me to wrap my head around.

The best way I can describe it is this picture:

I’ll only say it once: SQUEEOMG!