Year of Nuptials

I love am absolutely obsessed with weddings. Everything wedding related. From the detailing on the tablecloths, to the cups the guests drink out of. I would compare weddings to every holiday combined with my birthday (which should be a holiday), the first day I get to put my swimsuit on in the summer, and a baby smiling at me. There's so much emotion, happiness, love, tears, joy... ugh. So good. And I guess you could say that I love to dance. Since it's kind of definitely inappropriate to go to a club at the age I'm at, and downtown Minneapolis scares the ba-jeebies out of me, weddings (and my car and living room) are a place to let loose and shake my groove thang.


 

I honestly was not expecting to ever be a bridesmaid in any of my friend's weddings, since I feel like the older I get, the more difficult it is to align schedules to see each other (but then I realize they aren't planning parties without me... they actually don't have time to see me, too)



One of my best friends/roommates from the first college I went to (Eau Claire, WI) asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding just a couple of weeks before Chase proposed to me.  I was pretty stunned when she asked me. Stunned and stoked and honored and so, so happy.

She announced her wedding date to be June 28, 2014.

THEN, another one of my besties had a diamond ring plopped on her hand over the fourth of July, and asked me to be a bridesmaid in HER wedding TOOO!!!


 
Her wedding is June 27, 2014. And in case you missed the first date, this is the day before the other wedding.

October 27th happened and my younger sister's boyfriend decided he needed to up his game, and he popped the question. On Thanksgiving weekend, I was asked to plan my sister's wedding for her be the maid of honor! 




Fortunately, this wedding is August 1, 2014..

Between the weddings Chase and I are in.. that puts 2014 totals at:

2 wedding receptions (for destination weddings)

3 wedding showers

4 bachelor/bachelorette parties

5 weddings

Call me crazy. But don't call me this summer (at least spare me in June). Cause when I'm not celebrating a nuptial, I'll be in a coma.




With this being my first (and most likely only) maid of honor experience, I'd say things are looking good so far..

I have managed to leave one of the bridesmaids out of the bachelorette planning facebook group message for almost a month. Don't worry, I've heard she is up to speed on everything now.

I am the only one to have not ordered a dress yet for my sister's wedding, even to try on and sample. I blame this on the fact that the maid of honor dress I desperately need want is $415 and the bride herself said "no." How rude.

I am persistently begging Chelsey to let me wear my wedding dress, so I can get one more day out of it. And secretly I want to be like Pippa Middleton. 

I have informed the bridesmaids that "i'm thinking this party will be very grown-sexy. When Chelsey looks at it, I want her heart to be filled with love sprinkles. Jeffrey is the light to her bug. (thank you, Catherine Giudici).

I have already had nightmares of me not having my maid-of-honor speech ready, and of the bride running out of her own wedding. I thought those nightmares only happened during your own wedding..oof-da.



Cheers to all the love-fests in 2014!