I'm about to turn 27 and get married, but I started this blog when I was 25, recently engaged, loving life, and wanting to share all that love and wonderfulness with friends, family, and the world.
In the last roughly year and half, I've gone through a lot as my fiancé & I planned and prepared for our wedding and the rest of our lives together. Our life is good, and most of the time, it seems, getting better every day, but I will be the first to admit, it's not always perfect, and sometimes, it's really, really hard.
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About my guy: His name is John, but I usually call him Johnny. We've known each other just about forever. Actually, since middle school, but I like to think of it as forever. He's a gem. He's also kind of a pain in the butt, but of the two of us, I'm pretty sure I'm the bigger pain in the butt, so I figure I'm getting a pretty good deal. We make each other laugh and drive each other crazy. He makes me insanely happy, helps me get through the tough times, and motivates me to be a better version of myself. We share the same dreams for each other, ourselves, our family, and our future. I don't think much in life gets either one of us more excited than plotting, planning, and fantasizing about making those dreams come true. I love Johnny so much. I can't imagine loving someone more. Since about three months into our relationship, I am frequently overcome, at random times, by an overwhelming feeling of deep happiness, contentment, and love just thinking about him. At the end of the day, even the hard ones, I know he is the one for me. There has never been, and there will never be, anyone else, and I cannot cannot CANNOT WAIT to marry him!
We also have a little dog. His name is Rudy. He's my munchkin. I call him munchkin and all kinds of other silly names and love him to death. Johnny does too. Now, we don't have children yet, so it's really not fair to say this, but we might love Rudy more than our future children. I got him when I was living in California, over 3,000 miles away from my man, fairly lonely and unhappy. Rudy, who started out at just under 2lbs., became my little buddy and was attached to my side ever moment of every day of his puppyhood (except when I was at work or school, of course). When we moved back to Maine, we became a family of three. Rudy is pretty much the cutest, coolest, silliest, greatest dog ever. People expect him to be an annoying little yippy dog, but he's not at all. He rolls with the big dogs, and is pretty positive he's one of them. I don't know that Rudy has ever met anyone, man or beast, who he did not like, and who did not like him in return.
About ME: I enjoy reading, traveling, shopping, drooling over all things fashion and home decor-related, wine, the drinking of other delicious cocktails in general, cooking, baking, going out to nice restaurants, listening to music, doing yoga, and art. I studied art history in college and it will forever be a passion of mine. I happen to be marrying into a family full of artists, so I think that is quite fitting. I love all things soft, feminine, pretty, vintage, and chic. I have recently discovered that I love blogging and reading blogs (especially Style Me Pretty <3), and I am totally addicted to Pinterest. I loved the idea of planning my wedding and making it truly unique, special, and all our very own. The whole wedding planning process has been a bit demanding, overwhelming, and all over the place due to my busy schedule, penchant for procrastination, disorganization, and somewhat indecisiveness. I am super overly ambitious, always have been and always will be, and while the wedding has been no exception, I'm learning to take certain things in stride, and just get it done, ever if it's not 110% perfect. And, sometimes, less is more.
MORE about me: I love flowers. I do not have a green thumb. I wish I did, but nonetheless I attempt to grow and keep house plants alive, and a bouquet of fresh cut flowers gets me every time. I'm obsessed with just about everything in the Pottery Barn catalog. I would design my entire house by the pages of that catalog, if I could, with fresh flowers and candles everywhere. I love to play hostess, I love to entertain and make new friends, although I've never found myself to be particularly good at these things. I do try though, and that's what counts, right?
I love dearly and am very loyal to the friends I have had over the course of my life. I feel so blessed to have them and to have a such wonderful group of girlfriends - although spread out across the country - who are participating in the wedding. I am so excited to adopt Johnny's two sisters as my own, and become closer with them. I am deeply, emotionally attached to the South, to my alma mater, Sewanee, and to my Kappa Omega sorority sisters, most of whom I have not seen or been very good about staying in touch with since college, but for reasons that cannot be explained to anyone who doesn't just feel them too, these things and people will always, always remain near and dear to my heart.
More than anything else, I have always wanted for my life to become a wife and a mother and have a big, beautiful, loving family. I am lucky enough and truly, truly blessed to have found the person I want to do that with and be going right exactly in the direction of those dreams.
Thanks for reading.
