Wedding Dreams (or Nightmares!)

Last night I had my first, of what I think will be many, dreams about our upcoming wedding. It's a sign to me that the big day is getting closer and the stress will likely continue to increase in the coming weeks. It may be odd that I'm sharing the details of this strange dream I had, but I thought it was funny and so I just had to share!

In my dream, we had just finished up our wedding ceremony and our guests were supposed to be headed to the cocktail reception before the dinner started. However, there was another wedding ceremony that was starting just after ours ended, and our guests decided to stick around and watch the next wedding too. I was upset that everyone was staying to watch the next wedding (isn't it bad luck to see another bride on your wedding day?) and so I talked with my parents to see if they could coax everyone into the other room for the cocktail hour. So the guests started getting up from their chairs, and they began to leave one by one! I was really upset that we were losing people before the reception had even begun!

Meanwhile, I was on my way back to my hotel room with Alicia because I realized I had forgotten to shave before the wedding day! I was so shocked that I had forgotten before such a big, important day! It was like the wedding day snuck up on me before I had time to prepare (which was pretty realistic, considering I had the dream about the wedding day when in real life I should still have 2-3 months to finish planning!) I was even nervous about going to the reception, not knowing what the final product would end up looking like, if I would have the lighting that I wanted in the room, etc.

I did, however, get a glance at the ballroom just before I woke up, and the lighting I had my heart set on was there :) Now that I know how important that lighting is to me, it will be easy to let the rental company know about my final decision. Ironically, they emailed me back today with a quote of what the lighting will cost and the layout of the lighting in the ballroom :)

I will also be sure to tell EVERYONE about the plans for the wedding day so everyone will know about the cocktail hour and the reception, and nobody will leave when the ceremony is done! It's a very unlikely scenario (the reception is the best part!), but it can't hurt to be extra clear about the day's plans :)