We're Getting Married In Two Months!!!!

As many of you already know, I have talked a lot about Shawn and I's wedding. We first initially planned on having our wedding August of 2018 and then we got word from my parents that my brother would possibly be enlisting in the military. I was extremely proud of him so of coarse it was no problem moving our wedding date since he would be at boot camp during our wedding. So we finally started making some plans for our wedding after being engaged for nine months. We planned it for May of 2018, we started putting words into action by placing down payments on our venue, a dj, etc.. We were getting so excited we could actually see our wedding coming together. Nothing was going to get in the way of our special day.... until my future sister and brother in law came over to present the most amazing news. They are pregnant!!! And their due date is one week before our wedding. I could see the the excitement yet apologetic look on their faces.

Shawn and I honestly couldn't be more excited for them. Of coarse we had to deliberate our options. What were we going to do? It was obviously a no brainer if we were going to change our wedding date for my brother we were definitely going to change it for Shawn's sister. So it was just a matter of when we were going to change it. Almost all of 2018 was out of the question. We didn't want a winter wedding because we wanted an outside ceremony, we could no longer do May due to Shawn's sister being pregnant and all of summer and fall wouldn't work because my brother would be at boot camp. So there we were all the way into 2019. I didn't want to wait that long, Shawn and I debated for a long time and we decided that we always wanted a fall wedding anyway and that we didn't care anymore. We just wanted to be married. That's why we decided to have our wedding in two months, November 18th, 2017. 

Here's my thing, we as a society we put sooooooo much pressure on weddings. That they have to be this big glamorous wedding and that everything has to go as planned and perfect. But that's a big fat lie!!!! We forget that the whole reason for a wedding is the marriage of two people. That it's the life long commitment of one another. Two becoming one. If we all remembered this maybe wedding planning wouldn't be so stressful and marriages would last a whole lot longer. At this point I don't even care how my wedding turns out as long as I'm standing at that alter saying my I do's to the man that I love. 

I don't know who all reads my blogs but if there's a piece of advice I could give anyone about wedding planning is to remember why you're getting married in the first place. Shawn and I had to throw everything out the window and remember why we are getting married. We decided that yes, two months is a short amount of time to plan a wedding but we are ready to be married. No one will remember the center pieces at our wedding, no one will remember how we cut our wedding cake, and no one will remember the tiniest details that may go awry. 

So cheers my love to the most amazing life long commitment we are about to make to each other. I can't wait to say our vows, to start a family together, and grow old with one another. You make me the happiest woman alive and that's all that matters. I love you Shawn! 

With all my heart,

Cierra