wedding prep - the day before

oh man. i don't know if it's the case for everyone, but the day before our wedding was just....crazy. i was finishing up a million wedding things, trying to get my room totally cleared out, and praaaying that it wouldn't rain the next day. (i was only sort of successful with that one)

also, i honestly can't remember if i saw brian for more than a couple hours that day. the funny thing about preparing to get married is that it leaves a whole lot less time to actually hang out with the person you're about to spend forever with. 

anyway.

some things i want to remember from my last day as a single lady.

 how awkward i felt trying to guide this delivery truck into the narrow narrow alleyway behind the apartment. i was so happy that janiece showed up shortly after they did so i didn't have to hoever in the kitchen while they unloaded all the tables and chairs.

good crap. janiece helped me all day. i probably would have died without her. she made approximately one million dipped pretzel sticks all by herself, helped me with flowers, hauled stuff to the church, and kept me as calm as was feasibly possible the whole day. (also she was the only one concerned that i got breakfast the next morning, and brought me a jamba juice right before i left to get ready)

picking up the flowers was my favorite. two buckets full of pretty white and yellow flowers is all i want every day.

making bouquets, and decorations, and boutonnieres. (which was also super fun. i would love to do more stuff like this when i wasn't getting married the next day) 

getting good luck and congratulations texts from people all day.

sending my parents way across town to grab lunch because i mixed up the names of two burger places. 

having dinner with all the member of my extended family who had come to stay for the night. (and looking awesome i'm sure. i hadn't showered that day, or really put on any makeup)

writing my ring ceremony vows while sitting on the bathroom floor of the hotel room.

sending brian the last goodnight text ever before he was my husband.

 seriously, thinking about that night makes my stomach feel all butterfly like. wedding planning is all kinds of crazy. but it's totally totally worth it. (but if you can afford a wedding planner, i probably wouldn't dissuade you)

wedding prep.

i don't understand how people get married more than once. planning one wedding was pleeenty for me. going through some of these pictures from last summer still kind of stresses me out.

i'm really not trying to be a debbie downer about wedding planning. some parts were fun, i just much prefer the actual being married part. here's some of what was happening this time last year.

a big part of wedding prep is getting a marriage license. i really enjoyed sitting in the licensing office while we filled out our paperwork. it's a happy office! people were getting passports and at least a few other excited couples were also nervously filling out their marriage license forms.

that much closer!

we also decided pretty last minute to change our reception location. this actually went super smoothly and ended up working out perfectly. especially because it ended up raining that day, and the first place didn't have any kind of rain protection. which really would have put a damper on things. (damper! get it?)

we got our marriage announcement in the ever important Malad newspaper. also, Brian started getting decorating ideas.

we made a lot of wedding decor. those stupid lanterns were such pain to make (martha stewart is a liar), and they ended up getting ruined in the rain. oooh well.  the pinwheels were surprisingly fun to make. maybe because they were all completed while watching you've got mail. i made around 30 pinwheels, and somehow I only ended up with one. mystery!
(also oskar's favorite pastime is photobombing my pictures)

the saving grace of wedding planning (besides a super cool fiance) was the fact that ashley was getting married one week after me. we were able to talk about wedding stuff all day long without annoying each other, and went together to pick out flowers and rentals and look at dresses. i don't think our wedding would have gotten planned if hers wasn't happening at the same time. two nights before the wedding i tried really hard not to break anything while roller skating at ashley's bachelorette party and i was successful!

to be continued.....

this and that

 - the biggest change in our life currently is our new apartment. we are in loooooooove. a second bedroom, linen closet, and more than one drawer in the kitchen have us singing hopelessly devoted while swirling stationary around in a kiddie pool. [sidebar. does anyone want to watch grease with me?]

- having a pool is good for our marriage. it's a thing we like to do together, and it's aaaaaalways fun. everyone, go swimming with your spouse. it's the greatest. (also brian is hilarious in the pool. seriously. i usually end up laughing enough to swallow some pool water)

- i wore my hair in the tiniest of topknots today and it really made my morning. the only thing i seem to miss about long hair is being able to pile it on top of my head.

- in other hair news, pretty sure i'm going to cut bangs again. i'll keep you posted on whether or not i regret it.

 - a lot of our neighbors are retired couples. one of them likes to talk to me in the laundry room while wearing a chest-exposing Hawaiian shirt. it's the greatest.

 - we're wanting to go to portland in about a month and a half. any tips on fun/cheap things to do there?

- this weekend brian pointed out two drawers in our kitchen that i had somehow never noticed. i think i thought they were those fake drawers that are under sinks? anyway, i was real excited.

 - should we care that 80% of our apartment was purchased from ikea? cause...we don't.

- we're going to san francisco in a week and a half, and i'm all kinds of excited about it.

 - related to that, our one year wedding anniversary is also in a week and a half. so forgive me if i get all nostalgic and wedding-y up in here.

oh no! it's starting already! 

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i think people can almost be categorized into two groups. people who see someone they recognize and go up to talk to them. and people who see someone they recognize and try to hide.

can you guess which group i'm in?