Weddingbee Blog

It’s was our three-year dating anniversary yesterday, as well as the one-year anniversary of our engagement. Bumbling engagement LOLs here.

On May 13, 2009, we picked at our anniversary/celebration dinner, since excitement trumped our appetites. My disastrous, habitually chipping “manicure” in the ring-photo text was the target of joke after joke. We took time to lament the sad state of Love Plant, a potted rose plant Mr. Taco gave me on our 2008 anniversary. (It’s still alive in the purgatorial sense of “not dead”, by the way.)

A year ago, a friend suggested I wait a month before starting any planning, allowing for time to bask in my one-time engagement newness. I completely ignored this helpful advice, but, for better or worse, we I got a lot done in those first few months. We were then left with seasons-long stretches of twiddling our thumbs and putting off the small stuff. And then the small stuff became more imminent, as did August 14, 2010. At some point, people transitioned from saying, “oh, you’ve got a while” to, “hey, it’s coming up!”

Wedding comprises an entire economy, complex, and culture you can’t glean from WE TV (not that I didn’t try). It can be an emotional roller coaster if you let it, which is very easy to do. But with only a few months left to go, sanity, finances, and relationships are all seemingly intact. Above all else, I’m grateful for that. Life went on, just as it was supposed to.

(I guess we haven’t paid our remaining bills yet, so maybe I’ve spoken too soon.)

Whether your engagement was/is long or short, what (be it good, bad, or annoying) stands out most from that transitory time?