Weddingbee Blog

Hiya!

Guess what we did this past weekend? Um. Yeah. We got married! Squeal!!!

It was by far the most amazing, magical, and ridiculously awesome day I’ve ever experienced in my life. And to think I used to scoff when people called their wedding day the thebestdayoftmylife. I stand corrected. To be surrounded by so much LOVE is some rare and strong magic. It will be pretty hard to rival, but I certainly hope we will spend every single day of the rest of our lives together trying to recreate that magic for each other.

Yes, it’s true—our wedding has clearly reduced me to a mushy gushy smiling-like-a-fool mess. *Hangs head in shame. And I couldn’t be happier! I know I throw the word awesome around a lot, but I was truly and profoundly AWED by the experience.

Suddenly (oh how I hate to admit this) I get how absolutely everything you hear about weddings is totally true, and at the same time, I think you should forget every single thing you’ve ever heard right now. The days leading up to our wedding were crazy, wonderful, hectic, and nowhere near perfect. On Friday we got a parking ticket while we were at the flower mart. We got stuck in traffic. We tried and failed and tried again to rent a U-Haul, which sucked up an hour and a half of precious time. We got a dead battery. And our rentals weren’t delivered until 30 minutes before we had to be out of our venue. And they were 100% wrong.

So we did what any sanity seeking brides to be should do—we said eff it all. We didn’t bother rehearsing and instead we grabbed pizza and chilled with friends/family back at our house. Best decision ever. And believe you me—our lack of rehearsal was pretty apparent in our ceremony. And our ceremony was pretty damn near perfect. Letting go of the stress, the planning, the worry, and the million little things (like our effed up rentals) that were beyond our control was the best possible decision we could have made the day before our wedding. Letting go was wonderful.

I woke up on our wedding day calm, happy, and ready to marry the most amazing woman on this planet. And nothing was gonna get in my way. Or stress me out. Or change that fact. And nothing did.

I am so happy that we were able to just let go of all the planning, all the expectations, all the worry, and just be present for the most amazing day of our lives. It was an incredible gift, and I will be forever grateful to the amazing people who made it possible for us to just be. Words can’t begin to convey all the raw emotion, the tears, the joy, and the fun that we had at our wedding. To be surrounded by friends and family, to make eye contact with our guests and to see the tears of love and support freely flowing down their faces, well it was incredibly powerful. We passed our rings around for our guests to bless, and watching the time they took to imbue their blessings is something I’ll remember for the rest of my life, and every time I look down at my left hand. It gives me chills. And the dancing. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen my mom dance before, and my mom was an amazing dancing fool! Actually, I come from a whole family of crazy dancers. Who knew?

I am still overcome with happiness and I just wanted to pop in and share a teeny tiny bit of that joy with you guys. It has been so much fun to share our journey with you all, and we owe you a great big hug and a million thanks for your interest, support, ideas, and LOVE for our two-bride wedding. I know I disappeared a bit these past few weeks, but I just wanted to check in and let you know that the view from this side of married life is pretty damn glorious.

Nothing was perfect and yet I wouldn’t change a thing. I am so proud, honored, and happy to call Cynthia my wife, and so grateful, excited, and overcome to hear our friends & family, our community, echo those feelings back to us. The presence and support of our community was more powerful, more meaningful, and more important to us, than any piece of paper this state or country will ever issue us. And it’s no mistake that I use the word will either. Not that I care one little bit right now—we’re flying so high above it all.

On our wedding day, there were moments when time truly stopped moving, and moments where time accelerated and we could barely keep up. And I didn’t worry one little bit. All the planning, the expense, the time, the crafts, were such a small price to pay for such complete, total and overwhelming joy.

We’re taking this week to relax, recover and spend time hanging out sans a wedding craft in sight, but then I’ll be back to share all of our last minute DIY projects (oh there were so many!) and a few tutorials I’ve promised, and maybe some more thoughts on this vast, amazing, fantastic adventure called marriage.

Until then, much love and luck to all of you in your planning adventures! And don’t worry—I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to have a less than perfect wedding, no matter what goes wrong!

The Mmes. Stripes

*all photos courtesy of our fabulous guests! But ohhowwecan’twaittoseeourpropics!