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I’m almost embarrassed to even admit this, but I’m going to anyways.

I haven’t really felt excited about the wedding at all until, oh I don’t know, a few weeks ago.

Isn’t that terrible?!

Well, okay, I’ve felt excited. But in more of a, “oh yeah that will be awesome when it comes but it’s a million years away” sort of way. But over the past few weeks, the excitement really, truly hit me. The “OMG I have butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it and holy crap I CAN’T WAIT” kind of excited.

It’s an awesome feeling! What a novel thought—actually being excited about our wedding rather than just stressing over it. I’m at the point where I’m realizing that while details are important, they aren’t everything. The truly important part is that we’re getting married and it’s going to be amazing. I’m starting to let go of some of the details that don’t mean as much, and I feel like I’m starting to adopt a very zen-like “what happens will happen” attitude. And it feels damn good!

I think part of the reason I’m so excited is because of all the weddings we’ve been to recently. Last month we had the honor of attending Mrs. Socks’ wedding in Philadelphia, which was the first long-distance trip Mr. Cardigan and I had ever taken by ourselves. It was amazing and made me really excited to do more traveling with him in the future!

Us, hanging out in a gorgeous park in Philly. Mr. Cardigan kind of wants to move here.

We all know the details of the struggles that Mr. & Mrs. Socks encountered on their wedding day, but I have to say that after witnessing something that intense and horrible happening to them on such a huge day, I am so incredibly amazed at how strong they are as a couple. It’s mind-boggling how they managed to handle the situation and at the end of the day were still smiling (even if it was forced!) and still seemed completely and totally in love.

Seeing something like that happen really reminded me what it’s all about. Sure, I’m stressing over whether or not I’ll finish my napkins (have I mentioned yet that it’s the worst idea ever to make your own napkins?) or if we’ll finish writing our ceremony in time (I sure hope we do!) but at the end of it all, we’re going to be married. And I’m so, so excited of that, regardless of what happens with everything else.

It’s such a good feeling to finally LET GO and let myself actually be over-the-top excited about the wedding. When I picture the day, I’m no longer thinking about “if” I get all of the projects done. I’m just picturing them completed. And I’m picturing it to be beautiful and wonderful and perfect because no matter what happens, we’ll be married once it’s all over. No more worries. I can’t believe it took me until 7 weeks (SEVEN WEEKS, Y’ALL. OMG) before the wedding to reach this point, but I know that it will all work out in the end!

Please tell me I’m not the only one who took, um, a while to let themselves really get excited about the wedding! Is anyone else reaching that point?

Oh, and just because I love y’all, here’s an itty bitty teaser of Mrs. Socks’ wedding (hope you don’t mind, Socks!).

Mr. Cardy and me, waiting for the ceremony to start!