I dream of a wedding...

Engaged and married women have warned me that this would happen. I figured this would be a good thing, retrieving ideas from my subconscious and perhaps having a sense of security and being content with what was happening. I couldn't have been more wrong.

My first wedding dream happend last night. It started off good enough - it was the big day and I was on my way out the door, ready to go. But there I was, a blushing bride and all by myself. How could I be alone? Where were my bridesmaids? Where was my mom? Well, at this point I was still in high spirits, packing a bag for the occassion. Make-up? Check. Shoes? Check. Other stuff I don't quite remember? Check. And off I go, in my flrty car, to whereever it was I was getting married. I get there and I start getting ready. This is the point when all my bridesmaids show up. Some are my very best besties and some I don't even recognize. Whatever, they are here.

So now I am realizing that I left my wedding dress at home. What?!?! So I send one bridesmaid to go get it. It is only after she leaves that I realize I left something else just as important, details are foggy now. I send a second bridesmaid to the store to buy a new said item. I am needing things right and left. Then there is the cake. Apparently I was supposed to bring that too but I don't think I even had one. So I had to order a cake the day of the wedding! Can this really happen?

On top of all this stress, I am feeling foggy, as if I have been drugged. There are points in the dream where I don't even realize what is going on. Girls are running everywhere, doing my hair, helping me get dressed into the under-dress garmants (I don't have nylons? Someone please go get me nylons and make sure they are this specific color or else!!!)

Thinking about it now, I can't ever remember dreaming about my wedding day before I got engaged. So should I assume that anything I was worried about in the dream, I am or will be worried about in real life? I guess I should make sure I pick the cake up a day in advance just in case then.

Wedding Weekend Extravaganza

I was lucky enough to be invited to not one, but two weddings this past weekend! Two very good friends of Graig's got married in the same weekend and it was a must to attend both. Saturday's wedding was in Philadelphia at the Loews Hotel downtown. Beautiful bride, beautiful table centerpieces and a beautiful banquet room with 250-ish guests dancing the night away until 1 am. The music was pumping and we danced and drank and ate all night! It was a great experience to step right into the middle of it all and think, yes, I can see myself doing that at my wedding or, no, that is just not for me.

Sunday's wedding had us leaving Philly and heading for the Bronx. A traditional Catholic/Italian/Portuguese service at a church, followed by eating, drinking and dancing at the Glen Harbor Island Club in New Rochelle. The venue was gorgeous and the food never stopped. The cocktail hour served pretty much every type of food you can think of. I ate so much food, I didn't even visit the desserts, and for those of you who know my sweet tooth, you know how hard this must have been for me.

It was a very educational weekend. Graig and I spent a lot of time in between all the wedding excitement discussing what we loved, liked and could pass on. There is nothing like the real wedding experience to make you think about your own. I am still in love with our potential location and I am excited to officially book it, once we talk to some of the vendors. This should be happening sometime this week. Until next time...