it’s going to be a bride-tastic weekend!

You know that feeling when you’re standing on your tippy toes in water up to your chin just trying to be still and keep your nose pointed upward so you can breathe? That’s kind of how I feel right now trying to balance all this wedding planning stuff (logistics, details, decisions, my feelings, other people’s feelings).

This is going to be me after long… a zombie-bride. DCist

This weekend, however, I’m going to do my best to just PUSH it all aside and enjoy myself because I’m flying back to Virginia for two very momentous occasions!

Numero uno, my first ever wedding dress fitting! As some of you know, my Grandmother and Mother are making my wedding dress by hand and though we’ve done a fair share of stitching, priority-mailing, pinning, and priority-mailing back, I still haven’t had a wedding dress on my body yet. Tomorrow that will change.

And then on Sunday, I get to hang out with some of my favorite girls at my bridal shower! My best friend since childhood Tabatha is having it on the gigantic wrap-around porch on the back of her Mom’s house so I’m hoping for endless sunshine.

PLUS, I’m picking up our wedding bands and my newly-resized engagement ring from the jeweler tonight – ahh! A fun-filled, wedding-wonderful weekend WITHOUT living in fear that my ring will come flying off my hand at any given moment? STUPENDOUS!

There are two small kinks in my weekend plans, however. A red-eye flight tonight and a VERY early east-to-west flight on Monday morning – those are the worst because despite waking up at 1am Pacific time, you still land in time to go work a full day. Blech.

Anyways – here’s hoping you all have as lovely a weekend as I’m sure to have. xoxo!

Bear