Wedding DAY Recap – It’s Finally Here!

After a semi-late night of wedding party fun, and sleep that was less than stellar, I woke up on my wedding day feeling tired.  

I got up and made coffee for everyone and then jumped in the shower.  I got all ready and ate breakfast and started to feel better, but I was still in planning mode and not so much in “hooray I’m the bride today” mode.  Everyone else was running around getting ready and a little before 8:00 am, my cousin/bridesmaid, Hannah showed up to start the day!  She was an AWESOME helper that morning and we moved stuff out to the driveway so we could take inventory.  A few minutes after we started, my uncle and another cousin showed up with my uncle’s truck to help us take the arch over.  I had about 3 seconds of panic when I realized that we didn’t finish decorating the arch, but I just made a note on my list that we needed to take the flowers and stuff to decorate it and told myself that someone would be able to do it while we decorated.

So, we got everything out to the driveway and my cousin read stuff off my list and checked things off as I confirmed that we had them out there.  It was really nice that there weren’t many of us doing this job… this could have definitely been a “too many cooks” situation that would have started me on a path of stress/frustration in the morning.  Hannah and I were just finishing as people started coming out to get in cars, so they were able to help load stuff up quickly and we were on our way… only 3 minutes behind schedule.  Oddly enough, just about everyone was dressed in either black or navy blue that day… weird coincidence, but we also made a joke of it… we were mourning the death of my singledom… ha ha ha

I’m really not sure when I got to the point that I felt like the bride… when I got to the point that I realized it was my day and that everyone was there for me, to support me, to help me and (for lack of the right word in my brain and in my thesaurus) “serve” me.  I had been so worried all along that people were going to think that I was being demanding or that I was being obnoxious or being a Bridezilla that I did a lot on my own.  I’m also one of those people who, with things that are this important to me, tends to take on the “if you want it done right, you have to do it yourself” mentality.  Not that I didn’t trust people to do things… more that I had a vision of how I wanted things and not only did I not have time to explain my vision, there were times that I didn’t think I could explain it correctly and effectively, and other times where I didn’t feel like there was anyone who cared to listen to it.

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