I found a wedding dress...I don't want to go into too much detail but it is perfect. I had lots of visions of what our wedding day would look like in my mind, but when I tried on this dress, I could see us perfectly. And the best part about finding my dress was having Mom and Amber come to Chicago!
Before heading out to bridal salons....
Stopped for lunch at the Twisted Lizard...good sisters always check each other's teeth after eating!
Mike and I finally sat down (or rather I trapped him in the car on the way home from Northern Michigan) and talked about the little details of the wedding. Let me just say that Mike is by far, much more difficult to please than even my most demanding clients at Principal! It's not that he's not happy with everything, it's just that he has the mentality that we should be getting everything for nothing - because we have such a big group coming to the resort! In theory, I understand where he's coming from, but it just doesn't work that way (unfortunately). Needless to say, we got through all of the details I wanted to talk about and we made it home without breaking off our engagement (just kidding!).
I've also been having lots of email conversations with the wedding coordinator at the resort. It's quite a different process than I'm used to dealing with - usually at least a day lag time before a response...but from everything I have heard and read, that's the way things work. Relaxed. Laid back. No worries. Everything will be handled when we get there. So I'm relaxing - and I have to say I'm enjoying not having to make any decisions until we get there. Mike asked me if we could move up our wedding by 1 day (from Saturday to Friday) because he thinks I'll be so stressed until after the wedding that I won't enjoy myself the few days before. I don't really know how to explain it - since I realize it is completely opposite from my personality - but I really don't think I'll have a care in the world. The reason we're going is to get married - and I know that part will happen - so who cares about the rest?
We want our wedding to be different, to stand out. Not because of the exotic location (although that helps) or that it's taking place on a beach at sunset (that helps, too) but because of it's perfect simplicity. There will be no big pomp and circumstance, wedding march, strings or horns. Just us, telling each other how we never want to be without the other, standing in front of the ones we love most, sealing our future without hesitation. Perfect simplicity.
Last but certainly not least....one more thing I love about Mike. When I have to get up early, he does, too. Today I had a conference call that started at 6:00 am to accomodate people from Singapore and Hong Kong. So I was up early at 5 am. Mike was planning work from home today and didn't need to get up until closer to 7. But while I was in the shower, he got up and made me coffee. And then he drove me to work at 5:30 so I didn't have to take the bus. This might not seem like a big deal to anyone else, but for so many reasons, this is one of the things I love most about Mike.
Taking care of my daughter is a big deal... and he does it perfectly.
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