advice to future brides#1: love

i'm not sure if it's a bit presumptous to future brides this early in the game. but considering my wedding is about a month and a half away, i am sure i have learned a number of lessons along the way thus far.

Love
as obvious as it seems now, Love must be what drives the whole wedding planning process. I mean it is the reason the whole wedding is happening in the first place, right? Our wedding is a public declaration of our love for one another in front of people that we love and that have shown us love in our lives. As stressed as I have been during the wedding planning process, I also think of myself as one of the most laid back brides you will ever meet. Always, in the back of my mind, I have known that whether or not we had a wedding ceremony, B and I would be together. Nothing has ever doubted that. That is love. And it is that solid fact, that absolute truth that has brought me comfort in all this wedding planning stress. Future brides, remember that! In all my wedding related dreams, there was always some kind of imperfection (many times, quite humorous actually)involved. And always, even when things did not go as planned in my dreams, B and I were together and took comfort in being together. So for me, even if everything that could go wrong does go wrong, at the end of the day, he and I will be together. I LOVE knowing that.

Ok, other things I love.

My friends, more specifically my bridesmaids (including my maid of honor of course!), I LOVE. I am so happy that my best friends are my bridesmaids. I LOVE that I can count on them and they can count on me. I LOVE knowing that they support me and also kick me in the butt when needed. I LOVE that I can vent, cry, and laugh with them.

My wedding dress, I LOVE! Maybe that's what inspired this update. My dress came in last week and I had my first fitting today. I LOVE it. I was so freaking giddy wearing it today.

I love that I am greatly involved in the wedding music. B had his fun with the invitations and all things visual. I LOVE that I am making musical arrangements of songs I love that will be included in the mass. I LOVE that I will not be marching down the aisle to the traditional "Here Come the Bride" music. I LOVE that I got to pick the melody I want to march to and that our musical director/organist is excited to play around with it in order to play it the way I envision. I LOVE that the music will reflect us. I LOVE that much of the personal touches of the wedding really reflect who we are a s a couple.

I am engulfed in, swimming in, swaying to, embracing, surrounded with LOVE.