Princess For a Day

First Kissy pic we ever took

So for as much as I love tradition...

Andrew and I have done our relationship completely backwards!

We met... I 'moved' in right away

a year later we moved 7 hours to NJ together 

2.5 years later my mother gives him her wedding ring

I know all about this

we talk about our wedding plans

we talk about our children

But not engaged just yet!

we plan it for this summer

But still not engaged yet!

My mother gets a DJ and someone to make a cake

"still not!"

Today I made an appointment to go to the Kay's 'ring setting show'

without even asking him

(thank god he was up to going once I told him later that day)

The dream setting

And I went to the bridal shop today

With my "future brides maid"

 I say future because once again

(not engaged yet)

They made me fill out a registry to my pretend wedding that "I have all planned already"

I tell them that my ring is "in the shop"

I'm looking at dresses (with my future brides maid)

I say " oh my god I cant believe I'm doing this " about 25 times

I go into a dressing room with my dresses to try on...

in comes my little lady to "dress me"

oh god.... why did I decide to wear my hot pink bow thong today?

I am dressed into so many undergarments that I cant breath

And above me comes my first wedding dress that I have ever looked at or tried on in my LIFE

There are NO mirrors in the dressing room

The little lady hangs up all my clothes that I came in there with and even put them ride side out since when I take my clothes off I have a bad habit of turning them inside out.

I open the doors and look at my future bride's maid

Im still thinking "omg what am I doing"

Caitlin is on the verge of crying and I am just in shock that the first dress I put on is NOT what I wanted at first but..... ending up falling in love with it!

wait it gets better if you know the feeling...

you stand on that platform 

and the moment didn't fully hit me till...

the vail was put on me... Whats a bride without her Vail?

(reminder that I am still not even engaged)

I try on other dresses and all I can think about is that first one

( is it possible to be so in Love with a wedding dress that you want to marry it?! )

 I could have the wedding right then an there in the store!

Before I even looked at dresses I thought... okay strapless ( because that what my mother did)

and white A line silk to the floor that's it!

I ended my day realizing that I am in love with vintage!

my dream dress is ivory (not traditional white)

and the dress is all beautiful romantic vintage lace!

and it had beautiful romantic vintage lace sleeves!

*sigh* in loveee

the ivory lace

And it really hit me that it was going to be a special day all about Andrew and I at the moment when I was wearing the dress going to walk across the room and Caitlin picks up my train and walks behind me saying "well I will be the maid of honor, better start now"

So Jan 22 Andrew and I go to the ring setting showcase (showcase sounds so trashy...) okay, the ring setting showing with my mothers huge diamond that she gave Andrew ( anything over a 1c is huge to me because I am simple and now vintage!) and hopefully pick out a setting and they mount it right then and there!

but even if we pick out the ring...

I still wont be engaged 

until then...

it was fun playing dress up

and going along with the out of order relationship I am madly in Love with.