Wedding Planning Part 1

I had less than a year to plan my small wedding, I had decided on May 2nd, 2017, the day my parents had gotten married. I was never one of those girls who dreamed about her wedding or even gave it a single thought, I was the kind of girl who didn't believe in marriage or even love, but that all changed when I met my future husband, who was actually my first boyfriend at the age of 27. Now that I was engaged, I still knew the kind of style I wanted, I had searched online and loved a rustic wedding look and a vintage A-line dress. Some dresses I had fallen in love with online.

Some ideas into the rustic wedding look like a barn, wood, Mason jars, naked cake and lace.

I had really loved this look for that day, so I kept it to try and recreate it. I had thought of getting it professionally done, but I'm pretty good at makeup, so I left that task for me.

I was working at the orthopedic office then and a coworker had mentioned to me to try David's Bridal. I wanted something different for my dress, not your typical wedding dress and I thought that place would be filled with commercial dresses, but I thought I would just go in and try some to just get an idea and sense of what I wanted.

I had a day off on January 2nd and my mom was visiting, so I thought I would go with her that day. Unexpectedly, my fiancé was sent home as soon as he went to work, there was no work that day, so he wasn't needed and he tagged along as well. It was my first appointment with dresses, so I didn't think I would find a dress, which is why I let him come with us.

Little did I know, the one dress I had picked from their catalog to try on, which was the most similar to the look I wanted, would be the one. As soon as I saw myself in the cap sleeve A-line lace dress, I could not hold my tears, I knew it was the one. Strange because I'm not the kind to get emotional like that, but it happened to me. A mother with her daughter had to give me tissues and told me, if it makes you cry, it's the one and she was right.