I have officially been engaged for more than a month and am around 9 months away from being married to the most amazing blessing of a man!
In the past month I've managed to break down only about three times(haha) and have accomplished the daunting task of FINDING A VENUE FOR THE WEDDING AND RECEPTION. We found it!!!!!!!!! We are having it at Harvey's on Noble. It is in Sylacauga...I know it's kind of random but it was totally a God thing(but then again what isn't a God thing). A friend of ours grew up with the man who owns it and they told us about it. We went to look at it and it is PERFECT! It's an old warehouse that he redid for his daughter's wedding and now rents out for events. I LOVE it! I'm so excited about decorating and what not. We are doing the wedding and reception there so yay!
So, that is really the only thing I've totally accomplished since my last post. I did get a wedding planner.
My wonderful friends, Katie Emily and Kyle, went with me to look for planners. It was fun.
Kyle didn't have as much fun with the planners though.....so he read handgun magazines.
Yes, that is a calculator...
That was all from a couple weeks ago. I've been busy trying to come up with fun ideas for the wedding along with trying to do well in school. It's been interesting. We are working on the guest list. I have a fun idea for asking my bridesmaids but I just have to finish it! haha. A friend of ours is going to do our cake for us so that is a blessing. But other than all that, things are kind of slow right now-not. I'm ready to be finished with school so I can really think about all this wedding stuff without feeling bad about not doing my schoolwork-kind of like what I feel right now.
A quote we found in the "Christian Wedding Planner" at Books-A-Million. The book was a little dated but the quotes were really solid:
I regularly have the best view in the house at weddings as I stand only three feet from the joyous couple. In joyous luminosity from the candles behind me, I see everything in intrinsic detail-the bride’s blush, which often extends to her shoulders, the moist eyes, the trembling hands, the surreptitious wink, their mutual earnestness of word. Sometimes in my enjoyment I let it all blur for a moment as I imagine the ultimate wedding when Christ will officially take us to himself- and then I blink back to the living parable before me.
-R. Kent Hughes
