I am going to start recaps at the morning of the wedding… so many things happened leading up to the actual day, and I really do want to share these with you (and I will… promise!), but to be perfectly honest, I am starting here cause I have all of our professional pics to do the recaps with, and they weren’t there the week leading up to the wedding!! So… without further adieu… the morning of the wedding… The alarm clock was set for 6:00am, and I woke up a little bit before it went off… I was getting married!!

I went into the washroom, and thought, wow… after all the hard work, tears, exams, phone calls, paper cutting, discussions, workouts… wow, it was here!! I am not gonna lie peeps, I can’t say the emotion was excitement. Nope, it was simply CALM. It was happening, I was ready, I had had a pretty good night’s sleep, most things were done (and even though I knew there were some things that quite simply wouldn’t get done, I was still calm!!), I wasn’t going to look outside at the weather, we were getting married! My cousin (and bridesmaid) came into the washroom, and told me I had to go back to bed… it was my wedding day, and I needed a bit more rest! So, without fighting her, I went back to bed. I knew our hair and make-up queen was to arrive at 7am, so I asked P-ah to wake me up then.

7am: things started rolling. I didn’t do much… had coffee, wandered around the lodge admiring all the work my peeps had done the night before (while my girls and I were out for dinner!!), ate an apple… calm (borderline zombie!). just some of the handiwork of my ladies… beautiful right?! All the flowers were grown by my mom and step-mom, and arranged by my step-mom and about 5 girlfriends!!

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Hoping to get some blogs in before the day, I find myself falling pretty darn short of doing that. The last week has been very, very busy to say the least. I’m sure many of you have felt “man, if I just had ONE more day… I’d be good’. Fact of the matter is… TIME IS UP! Whatever is done is done! Anything that is not – well, it just can’t be that important right?

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I will tell you what helped me a great deal is creating a timeline. We have things going on from today (Thursday) all the way until Sunday morning. We have paid a site rental and are getting there Thursday and staying until Sunday. So, each day has a timeline so that:

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Since I’m still a month + away from my wedding and still have my sanity in place, I decided to make a fun little graphic timeline for the bridal party for the rehearsal and wedding day.

Here’s a sample of the guys’ timeline….

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