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Don’t get your hopes up hive…this is not a post about shoes. It’s a nightmare about shoes!!!

I’ve read about so many bees having dreams about their weddings, but for some odd reason, I didn’t think that would happen to me. It might be because I very rarely remember any of my dreams. Or, since I plan events for a living, I figured this was just another event (just another event…really, Hippo?). Well, no. I mean, I don’t dream about my work events that are much larger and much more complex, so I figured that there would be no reason that I would dream about this much smaller, much more manageable one. Not to mention that I feel really on top of all of our wedding plans and I’m still more than 4 months out.

Oh, silly, silly Hippo.

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The other night, I had a very vivid dream about my wedding shoes. Oh, you remember them in all their glory, don’t you? Let me remind you….

I didn’t bring these puppies to Dallas for my week-long planning trip ’cause I knew my actual dress wasn’t in yet. I figured it was a waste of precious suitcase space to cart them all the way there when I wasn’t scheduled to have a fitting. However, I did mention to my girlfriend that works at the bridal salon that I had picked out my shoes, and I showed her a photo of the beauties. While she loved the shoes, she was slightly concerned about the heel height. Apparently my dress comes in a 5’10″ length standard, unless you order extra length, which I didn’t. I’m 5’6″ (o.k., 5’ 5 1/2″, but who doesn’t round up?). The shoes are a 4 1/2″ heel, with a 1/2″ platform. So…I’m no mathematician, but these shoes might actually be too tall for the length of my dress! Dammit!!! She said we would definitely have to try them with the dress to be certain, but there was a possibility that I would need to find a lower heel in order to have the dress hem in the right place.

So…onto the dream…

The other night I had a dream that I hadn’t tried on my dress with my shoes. At all. It’s the day of the wedding and I’m getting ready with my bridesmaids, and I put on my dress and it’s too short. It’s like highwaters…but in dress form. I’m freaking out, and so I drag my mom, my sister, and my three bridesmaids to go shoe shopping with me moments before my wedding. I’m literally in my wedding dress in a shoe store trying on shoes! I’m completely frantic, but instead of just picking a shoe, any shoe, I’m being totally picky. They have to be the perfect shade of navy—not too royal, not purple-y, navy. Oh, and I’m on a budget, so I’m also trying to get a deal, just moments before my wedding is supposed to begin! It was utter chaos. I actually end up leaving the first store because I can’t find exactly what I’m looking for and go to a second store to try on additional shoes. My bridal party is trying to convince me that many of the options are fine, but I want to hear none of it. I am determined to find the right shade of blue shoes, in the right heel height, in my price range, and nothing is going to stop me. Finally, I find a pair of shoes that “will do,” but I am visibly disappointed and all I can think about are the shoes I wanted to wear and the subpar shoes that I end up with. We rush off to the ceremony venue and get there just in time for me to walk down the aisle…in shoes I don’t particularly like.

So what’s it all mean? Well, I think for starters, I need to try on my shoes with the dress! But even deeper than that, perhaps it’s a subliminal message that getting hung up on the little details isn’t all that important. In my dream, I was way more concerned with finding the “right” pair of shoes than I was about getting to the church on time, if you will. That’s not good! I also mentioned my wedding envy the other day, and perhaps that feeling of jealously over what my friends’ wedding was and what mine will be played some role in my subconscious, which manifested itself into a dream all about being obsessed over finding something that was “perfect”…and at the most inopportune time, no less! Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the wedding details. I think it’s the little things that make a wedding unique. But at some point, enough is enough, and in my dream, I never got to that point. I get it, brain! I get it.

Have you had any weird wedding dreams that seemed to have a message?