Our Wedding

Many times in the months we were planning the wedding I said to Tom, "Why are we doing this? It's so expensive. It's so much work. Weddings are not for people with babies. I can't deal with this. You're the one that wanted this. Not me!"

Each time he would assure me that 20 years from now I'd be glad that we had a wedding and that I would regret it if we didn't.

Well, he was right. It isn't even 20 years later and I'm already glad.

As far as weddings go, I think it was fairly drama-free. To the best of my knowledge I did not piss off any of my friends as a result of it and I'm not pissed off at any of my friends. Quite the opposite. I was astonished by the generosity of all of our friends in pulling this wedding together. Since we were working with a relatively small budget, we were responsible for set up and clean up. One of our friends, Beth, took charge of coordination and assembled a crew of friends to do everything. We had friends making signs, picking up the flowers, setting up all the tables and decorations at the Zilker Clubhouse, picking up the keg, running the margarita machine, officiating the ceremony, cutting the cake and cleaning everything up at the end of the night. This wedding would not have happened the way it did without our amazing friends.

And I'm so grateful to my parents who paid for the majority of the wedding and threw our rehearsal dinner. They were so patient with me through all of the planning. They took on this wedding as their project and put so much time into helping me research cakes, flowers, napkins, plates, food, etc. Not to mention eating Paella for weeks in order to perfect the recipe for the rehearsal dinner.

Being a bride was awesome. And a lot like being hugely pregnant. Just like with a big belly, it's hard to be inconspicuous in a wedding dress. Everyone smiles at you, is extra nice to you and expects you to be a little crazy. It was the most amazing experience that I'll gladly never repeat.

And at the end of the night, I got to go spend the night at the Driskill Hotel with the love of my life, my husband. It was our first and only night without Mia. While it was very nice to have some alone grown up time, we both kept waking up every couple of hours wondering if she was awake. We probably won't do that again anytime soon. Honeymoon will have to wait awhile.

But for now, I am so happily married! I love saying "my husband." I love filling out forms and checking the "married" box. I love our little family.