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I get married next weekend. And to the 80 million people who have asked me this question in the last few months: I am ready.
I am so ready. And I don't just mean that I'm finished with all my wedding projects either. Though I should note, this is like the one time in my life I've been finished with projects well in advance of the deadline (take that, 18 years of school!). I guess working on project stuff is easier when you really want to. Who knew!
But beyond that, I'm ready to move on with my life. Getting married is a huge step. Something that responsible adults do. I sometimes still feel caught in a limbo between being an adult and not and I think this will help. It's strange how easy it was to slip into a life where I don't see or talk to my parents every day and where I have complete independence over what I do with my time for each minute of the day. I work, I help Shaun take care of our life together, rinse and repeat. It sure seems like a grownup life, but I don't often feel that way. I mean, we even have a house, but I still feel like a little kid playing pretend. I think getting married will make everything a little more real.
And I love Shaun so much. I think we're a fantastic match. We have similar life goals and values, our strengths work together, and our weaknesses complement to minimize problems rather than magnify them. I feel ridiculously lucky to have found someone who loves me so much to the point where I don't know what I did to deserve it. But whatever it is, I want to keep doing it.
Introspection aside, I think the wedding is going to be awesome. I really hope everything goes smoothly and that people have fun. Today I'm going to start packing up the wedding stuff to take it to my parents' house next week. It'll be nice to get the dining room back from weddingland mania, but I'll miss having so many little projects to work on. I really like doing that sort of thing. I guess I'll just have to start doing little things for the house instead. Work on my goal of having a house that looks like it came out of a magazine (but a little more lived in).
Here are a few of my wedding DIY projects. I didn't take a lot of pictures of wedding prep stuff, but these are a few of my favorite projects.
I kept seeing these pretty hangers in wedding blogs and fell in love. I couldn't justify the $25/hanger price so I decided to make my own! $5 for 5 hangers, $4 for wire, and $3 for ribbon sure beats the Etsy prices. Though I did have to spend about an hour just learning how to tie pretty bows....
Our escort cards/favors. I wasn't going to have favors but then my Mom pointed out that our wedding date is Sweetest Day and I became stuck on the idea of having at least a little bit of candy. And once I saw the Han Solo in Carbonite ice cube tray, I was sold!
I really have no idea why, but I love these stupid mustaches on sticks. So I made some and a bunch of other accessories-on-sticks. This is a small sampling of what will be at the photobooth.
One of my bigger projects for the wedding was to make Shaun's Han Solo vest. I think it turned out pretty well! Note that the original vest has a lot of pockets and things and Shaun elected to leave those off initially and I'll add them later when he reuses the vest for cosplay.
The back of the vest - complete with darts, ooo!
The inside, showing my fancy lining and inside pocket for Shaun's family hankie to go.
I am so ready. And I don't just mean that I'm finished with all my wedding projects either. Though I should note, this is like the one time in my life I've been finished with projects well in advance of the deadline (take that, 18 years of school!). I guess working on project stuff is easier when you really want to. Who knew!
But beyond that, I'm ready to move on with my life. Getting married is a huge step. Something that responsible adults do. I sometimes still feel caught in a limbo between being an adult and not and I think this will help. It's strange how easy it was to slip into a life where I don't see or talk to my parents every day and where I have complete independence over what I do with my time for each minute of the day. I work, I help Shaun take care of our life together, rinse and repeat. It sure seems like a grownup life, but I don't often feel that way. I mean, we even have a house, but I still feel like a little kid playing pretend. I think getting married will make everything a little more real.
And I love Shaun so much. I think we're a fantastic match. We have similar life goals and values, our strengths work together, and our weaknesses complement to minimize problems rather than magnify them. I feel ridiculously lucky to have found someone who loves me so much to the point where I don't know what I did to deserve it. But whatever it is, I want to keep doing it.
Introspection aside, I think the wedding is going to be awesome. I really hope everything goes smoothly and that people have fun. Today I'm going to start packing up the wedding stuff to take it to my parents' house next week. It'll be nice to get the dining room back from weddingland mania, but I'll miss having so many little projects to work on. I really like doing that sort of thing. I guess I'll just have to start doing little things for the house instead. Work on my goal of having a house that looks like it came out of a magazine (but a little more lived in).
Here are a few of my wedding DIY projects. I didn't take a lot of pictures of wedding prep stuff, but these are a few of my favorite projects.
I kept seeing these pretty hangers in wedding blogs and fell in love. I couldn't justify the $25/hanger price so I decided to make my own! $5 for 5 hangers, $4 for wire, and $3 for ribbon sure beats the Etsy prices. Though I did have to spend about an hour just learning how to tie pretty bows....
Our escort cards/favors. I wasn't going to have favors but then my Mom pointed out that our wedding date is Sweetest Day and I became stuck on the idea of having at least a little bit of candy. And once I saw the Han Solo in Carbonite ice cube tray, I was sold!
I really have no idea why, but I love these stupid mustaches on sticks. So I made some and a bunch of other accessories-on-sticks. This is a small sampling of what will be at the photobooth.
One of my bigger projects for the wedding was to make Shaun's Han Solo vest. I think it turned out pretty well! Note that the original vest has a lot of pockets and things and Shaun elected to leave those off initially and I'll add them later when he reuses the vest for cosplay.
The back of the vest - complete with darts, ooo!
The inside, showing my fancy lining and inside pocket for Shaun's family hankie to go.