Wedding Stress Has Started


My brother had his wedding in early October (I’m super late to post, because I’m terrible) and it was such a good time. Most of my extended family on my mom’s side came in to town, so at our peak there were 13-15 people staying with my parents. I was so nice to have everyone together again for a happy reason. The ceremony itself was beautiful, the vows my brother and Danielle wrote were lovely and really showed how much they care for each other and have grown together over the last nine years. I was lucky enough to be a part of their special day and I’m so happy I got to be there and celebrate with them. I’m also very happy to have a sister-in-law.

With most of my aunts and female cousins in town, I figured that the days after the ceremony but before they left might be a good time to go look at wedding dresses. I’d already been looking at dresses for a while, and I had a specific designer in mind that I really liked. So nine of us piled in to a teeny bridal boutique in Bountiful on Saturday afternoon to look at dresses. I think I tried on like 6 or 7 dresses, and the second to last ended up being the one I chose. I initially thought I wanted a trumpet/mermaid style gown, but after trying a few on I realized that I am much too short for that style to look right on me, and I ended up with an A-line gown instead. The dress was paid for that day (yay for savings), and it will be ready for me in early January. I’m so super excited for it to arrive and get it altered to fit me, since I’m so short the hem needs to be taken up a few inches so it doesn’t drag and I don’t step on it and trip.

With the purchase of my dress, the last really big things are catering/bar, and the photographer. I’m so unbelievably happy that we’ve been slowly working on wedding to-dos for months now. I know for a fact if we hadn’t I would be losing my nuggets and having more wedding related nightmares than I already am (hey there no-dress-no-food-no-cake recurring nightmare, I’m looking at you). I also finally sat down and figured out a pretty good approximation of our budget as far as how much we can afford to spend and on what. Knowing our budget is both a good and bad thing. I know how much we can spend on certain things, but I also know how much we need to save up to meet our wedding budget goals, which stresses me out. But then again everything wedding related stresses me out these days. The next year is going to turn me into a ball of stress and anxiety. Dustin and I have an appointment to meet with the Log Haven coordinator soon, so hopefully she’ll be able to answer our big questions and settle my nerves a little. I've also bought and have been making a notebook dedicated specifically to wedding stuff, it's helping a bit so far. 


We got our first snowfall of the season this past Friday and Saturday! It wasn’t quite as much snow as I’m used to in Anchorage, but I don’t think that’s such a bad thing. Salt Lake and the surrounding mountains are due to get more snowfall here in this next week, so I’m excited at the possibility of going snowboarding again for the first time since 2013.

Also Dustin turned 26!


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