As part of Wedding Week (I'M MARRIED), today we are featuring Michelle from Hooked to Books! Michelle has become a great friend these past few months and I am so excited to share her wedding story with you!
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My husband and I didn't have the typical date for x number of years and then get married. Nope, we got married after being together for 9 months. Crazy, right? But let's back up. See, we knew each other for years before we started dating — he tried to go out with me for at least 5 years before I gave him the time of day. And the only reason I went out with him when I did was because my mother made me. So yes, we have my mother to thank for our marriage. Which is okay.
So, back to the wedding. We started dating in August, got in engaged in October, and married in March. But that wasn't the original plan. The original plan was a June wedding at the beach. We are both beach bums and I had all these ideas of how I wanted it to be, what the bridesmaids would wear, my dress. Everything! And we had started planning everything. I had the caterers picked out, was getting ready to book the photographer, and knew the dress I wanted. And then — my twin finds out she is pregnant and due in June.
... Really?! Talk about annoyed. (But that's okay because I got my beautiful niece out of it who I adore.)
So, time to change the plan. We decided to do a church wedding at my grandparent's church with the pastor I have known all my life. We had from November until March to plan it. I was in Grad school and working full time, my mom was working, and my twin was pregnant. All I could think was — this is gonna be a disaster. But you know what — it wasn't.
Me and my mom started planning right away. I found the perfect dress (I only tried on two and it was the first one I tried on), I found pictures of how I wanted to decorate, I changed the color scheme, picked out my flowers, and fell in love with a cake. I found a photographer online who was amazing and a reasonable price — and have suggested to several friends who has loved them as well. Everything was falling into place! It was like this was the wedding that was meant to be — not the beach wedding that didn't happen.
After only 5 months of planning, Scott and I were married on March 31, 2007. It was absolutely perfect. Even though it was fast and stressful and not what we had wanted it at first — I am so glad that that was my wedding day. We had almost 200 guests — family and friends who probably wouldn't have made it to the beach made the occasion that much more special.
I adore this picture, Michelle!!
Everyone thought we were crazy for getting married so fast — but here we are, almost 5 years after we started dating, and still just as much in love and happy as we were when we first started dating.
************************** D and my relationship is sort of similar. We started dating on June 11th, 2010 (our first date was actually a combination of attending two weddings), we were engaged on October 9th, 2010, and we were married on June 10th, 2011 — a day before our "one year anniversary." I completely know what you mean about people not getting it. But I just say "you know when you know.":)
Congratulations Michelle!