09.23.08 – I’m getting married this week!!!

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” -Rita Rudner

Well, this is the last week of my single status… last week of my last name… last week of introducing Pete as my finance. Ah! I can’t believe this week is actually here! May 11, 2007 (at 6:05 in the morning!) Pete proposed to me and it’s been lots of planning ever since. But here I sit with most of it done – girlfriends coming tonight to help me finish the rest – and this Saturday I’ll be hitched!

It’s kind of bizarre to think that I’ll forever have a husband. Someone by my side through thick and thin. And like the above quote says, someone to always be around to annoy. 🙂

I guess I’ve always been such an independent person and didn’t really think of myself as “needing” someone to walk with me on my path through life. I knew I could hatchet my own way through if the brush got thick. I’d fend of the grizzly bears with my pure brute strength (putting that spinning-two-times-a-week to the test!) And I could scavenger for my own food when I got hungry.

But just recently, when a very dear family member fell very ill, I – for the first time – truly let myself “need” Pete. I let him see me scared. I let him take care of me. I let him carry me on what I thought was “my” path. And now I don’t see it at just my path or my journey anymore. I finally see it as ours. And at 6:30pm this Saturday it officially will be!

So, signing off… for the last time as a Storer!

(Here’s a pic of my blume boxes – will hold the bouquets)

(Here’s a pic of our table number cards – I had to spray pant them outside so that explains the sidewalk and grass! 🙂

(Here’s a pic of the gift card box I made! While I’m changing my name, I might as well change it to Martha Stewart instead!! 🙂

(And here’s a pic of all the boxes of presents we’ve received through our registry!)