Wedding Blog

Hello again! I’m so sorry to have been away for so long! Married life has swept me off of my feet and I landed running. Then came the holidays and then came the common cold. I’m starting to recover—and I’m utilizing this time to catch up on my tasks at hand—namely, our wedding recap!

To be honest, it hasn’t slowed down since the week before the wedding. Which was, in fact, one of the most stressful times in my life. It shouldn’t have been, but a few things put a wrench in our sides—and I’ll be the first to say that even with those small setbacks, everything went off without a hitch!

Now, I think I have mentioned before that Mr. Pomegranate and I were paying for the entire wedding ourselves. We had scrimped and saved every single dime and had arranged for just about every last vendor payment, house bill, and tip. We were ready for our wedding day—or so we thought.

Mr. Pomegranate is self-employed and while we were completely ready to pay for the last of vendor balances, we still had to rely on our normal income to pay for the basics of life like rent, utilities and food. This proved difficult once we discovered that due to the failing economy, one of Mr. Pomegranate’s clients would decide to back out on the promised payment of an already past due bill. We’ve still not received this substantial payment to date.

Panic rose and thoughts of canceling as much of our honeymoon as we could in order to pay our rent popped into my head.

We spent two days in angst before we decided to ask for help - and thank goodness for Mamitas Pom’s awesome credit. We were able to pull it all off with a plan to pay her back by Christmas (which we did). While our wedding was not accomplished without a dime on credit, as we had wanted, any debts accrued were paid off shortly thereafter.

Now that I’ve got that snag off my chest, I’ll say that my Day Before started off in a panic. Nothing had been packed in the organized fashion that I had wanted, as we had spent all of our time figuring out our future finances. I scrambled to organize family members to come pick up the load of boxes and my new in-laws we so, so very wonderful. My Aunt-in-Law Pom came with her giant SUV and my SIL Pom labeled and loaded everything safely—not forgetting a thing.

Where was I? I was sighing along with my other Bridesmaids—MOH, Crafty and Flirty Bridesmaid all met me at a high-rise spa where we got full service pedicures and ate a catered sandwich lunch. It was the perfect way to calm me down and “start” my Rehearsal Day.

One of the few pictures I have of the day - as photography was not my priority during this stressful time: A fuzzy iPhone photo of Flirty Bridesmaid getting her pedicure and lounging in the VIP area.

Please note that this post was relatively “photo-free” and that all future posts will be “photo-heavy”, I promise. I simply could not begin without this as a helpful reminder that sometimes life happens and that it’s not always the end of the world. Hang in there girls; it will be amazing no matter what!