Stop rubbing your eyes.......you read right......I am mere months away from being a bride!!!!!! I can not even begin to tell all of you the excitement that is a buzz in our home, our families homes and within our circle of friends!!!! Announcements have been made, showers are being planned, registries are coming together and alas the countdown begins. Anyone who has been a bride knows how exciting this time is but also the stress that is intertwined throughout the smiles and the well wishes. Weddings seem to bring out the best and worst in people. The stress is not only a burden carried by the bride and groom but anyone and everyone who is personally involved in this process. It is all very normal and when all is said and done every bride looks back on their day and reminisces how they would not change a thing. They must not have been a bride with Lupus!!!!
Everyone of us who suffers with an autoimmune disease can close their eyes and still hear the many doctors emphasising how important it is to remain as stress free as possible. Our diseases like to show their ugly faces when we least expect it and stress, well, it is the doormat that welcomes our disease to the party. We are told to make friends with those pesky little dust bunnies that chase me around all night in my dreams. Exercise when your body allows you and when it does not......listen very carefully and you will actually hear your body begging for the bed. As someone who loves to garden, dance and do everything the normal gals my age are doing, I must remember normal gals my age are not starting their days exhausted from the moment their eyes open and I am pretty sure they do not struggle to do something as simple as tying their shoes. So, I have decided that I am just extra special and the butterfly landed on my nose and may have stayed just a little toooooooooo long!
When the time came to decide what we were going to do in order to make our special day as intimate and about the bride and groom as possible.......we started to plan a wedding and reception here at home in Arizona. Two weeks passed and already I was stressing about the venue, the guest list and more importantly the cost. I was receiving information from family and friends who live out of state and most would not be able to make it all the way out here to Arizona. Talk about adding to the already forming stress ball!!!! So, with the absence of very important people in our lives we decided to reevaluate our plans. What do you do when you want to get married but avoid the hassle of planning an enormous party for everyone else but the two people who matter the most.......that is right, you hop on a plane and take a trip of a lifetime and somewhere in there tie the knot!!!! That is just what we are going to do!!!! The stress ball has been removed from my life. In its place you will find two tickets to St. Lucia to one of the most romantic and intimate resorts. A place where we will stand on the beach just the two of us and make the most important promise to each other in a ceremony just for two. At the end of the day the two people vowing to spend their lives together are the only two that matter and the most important aspect most brides and grooms forget.........the wedding may be fun but the most amazing thing I am looking forward to is the marriage.
Those who mean the most to the two of us, we have not forgotten about you. It will be a year of celebration that kicks off just the two of us amongst the Caribbean Islands but comes full circle as we celebrate with our Arizona family and friends when we return and finishes with an amazing reception planned by my mama and my sister in Ohio.
Here is to Greg and I as we truly begin our lives togethr in a year of celebration and most importantly a year of LOTS of cake!!!!
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