So, I recently submitted this following blog to Mon Cheri Bridals for a chance to win a free wedding gown. It is great since I'd be able to blog on wedding plans to help keep my thoughts straight through the whole process. Anyways, there's a lot of new information here and hope I get the opportunity to win!
Church or causal? Small or large? Cocktail style or four course meal? Before the baby comes or after? Just when I thought I could have the opportunity to have a “do-over” wedding by marrying my true, true love, not rushing into anything, and learning that it’s ok to ask for help regardless of whether or not I’ve worked in the industry before, life has yet again decided to throw me a curve ball. Not that I still can’t have my dream wedding to my dream guy, it just gets a little more complicated now. Let me give you some background on Chris and myself.
Chris and I met at the tender age of six years old when we started first grade together at the same school. Let me tell you… all of the opposite sex had cooties except for Chris to me and me to Chris. We connected really quickly as you could in first grade without knowing it and we stayed with each other as much as we could. In second grade we finally had the guts to try a kiss on the cheek here and there and didn’t bother to wipe it off on either side. This basically went on up to about fifth grade when I transferred schools and he moved out of state with his family. We were able to reconnect through a mutual friend when I ended up going back to our original school for junior high. The summer of eighth grade was probably one of our best of our lives so far. We dated through the first part of high school since we were old enough now and were just as crazy over each other as we were when we were kids. But, we were hitting that age where differences showed us that we needed to learn to grow a little bit more before we would really be ready for each other. So, I graduated one year early and started my trek through adult life quicker than he did.
I found myself moving up to Portland, OR a few years back for work and to buy my first house. While I was there I met a guy, found out my mom had breast cancer, moved back to CA, had my brother pass away, moved back to Portland, and decided to get married in case my mom couldn’t recover from the cancer all in 6 months. So, needless to say I married a nice guy who I didn’t really know anything about and I tried to make it work, but it just wasn’t meshing and since I was his second wife and the first one wouldn’t really “go away” in the beginning. Good news was my mother recovered and I was missing my family really bad, so I filed for divorce, took personal leave from (Delta/NWA Airlines) and moved back to Los Angeles only to find myself being reunited once again with Chris.
Over one year later, the talk of marriage and family, and starting our own business (non-profit performing arts center) we are finding ourselves kind of starting backwards. I found out during spring break that I am pregnant, which we didn’t know I could, and are excited to be starting our family. However, it has kind of confused us as to what to do with the wedding now. We’d love to have the traditional Catholic wedding with all of our family and friends from when we were growing up and celebrate with a fantastic full service reception, but with the baby coming, we are thinking of the possibility of eloping or even just doing something really small with just family. Possibly right now we are leaning towards something small with just family, but the good old American dollar is going to be the dictator now. We are still working on my engagement ring!
So, there will be many and many and many of things and details to go through and update every week! Stay tuned!
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