In honor of the week of our 1st Anniversary, I'd like to blog each day and tell our story of how June 29th came to be. It's harder than you may think for me to tell this story. I was ill then. 251 days later, I was hospitalized. I made mistakes during the planning. I was emotional. I made decisions not thinking clearly which "clearly" hurt others during this time. Some have understood, some haven't. That's how this illness works. We do the best we can. We hurt, we forgive, we cry, we laugh, we love.
JT finally got the courage to ask me one day, "How did you feel during our wedding? Do you remember it?" As much as his heart has been broken thinking he could have done more, my heart was broken thinking he thought I wasn't all there and in the moment on our special night. I think we've both proven to each other since then that our love has only grown stronger since June 29th.
That's how long it took to plan our wedding.
And so it began Friday, May 3, 2013 with a phone call and an idea from Gloria. After talking to JT, the deal was sealed and documented below.
The hundreds and I mean hundreds of text messages bounced back and forth. Secret Spalamar meetings, secret dress fittings on Maple, secret menus planned, "Engagement" party invites created, a table, bench and arbor from Gloria's house chosen for the ceremony, speeches written, secret meetings with Wayne at Artistic, etc.
It was super fun when the texts started rolling in like the one above from Anna. That's when I really knew it was real and we had a short time to plan yet a long time to keep a secret!
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