Even though I didn't get too tipsy at the wedding, I am suffering a bit of a hangover. The event was so very wonderful, now slowing down from the excitement is a gradual unwinding.
The party planning consumed much of my life and now I am wondering how to fill the rest of these available hours (not working). Hanging with the Hubby! Exercise! House-hunting! Then it dawned on me...remember the blog! I didn't blog through most of the the wedding planning because I barely had time to just get stuff done. I couldn't imagine writing about it too. I had lots of fun with all the ideas and little details. I wanted all our friends and family to feel like it was a party created for them by us (really me...more on that in a minute) to experience our love. Someone at the party asked me "What would you call this style?...Vintage...Country...Tuscan..." I laughed and responded "I am not sure...it is just my style!"
My hubby really didn't know what to expect and over the past few months he couldn't understand why it was taking so much time. He got involved in some specific parts of planning that were important to him but other than that he was pretty hands off. Then the night before when he saw it all come together he said, "Wow babe, you have outdone yourself. This is amazing. You have done such a good job." That was the best feeling!
So here it goes...I think we will work backwards. From the day of back through the decisions about the details along the way.
As most of you know this was our re-wedding. We were officially married two years ago between Dave's two deployments to Iraq. Check our the memories from our little ceremony in 2007 here. We had been together for 6 years and knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together but we didn't want to wait through another 15 month deployment to seal the deal. This past weekend we re-newed our vows in front of our friends and family on my family's ranch in Northern California and then threw a big ole' party to celebrate a fresh start to things here on the west coast!
The day was everything I could have hoped for. The biggest surprise was how important re-newing our vows in the presence of so many important people became to me. All along the way I felt kind of silly creating a ceremony to repeat something we just did two years ago. In the end it was just what we needed. We asked our fathers to do us the honor of re-newing our vows. As we stood up there listening to advice from our dad's and re-affirming the commitment we made to each other two years ago it was so clear to me that we are stronger than we have ever been. The challenges we have faced with the support of all the people around us made the day sweeter than I could have imagined. Here is a sneak peak...more to come...