What kind of bride were you?

 ****Introspective, mushy gushy post ahead! Consider yourself warned!****

I was a hyper bride, no doubt... see below

A Picture is Worth 1000 Words...Or 510.

I keep coming back to this picture. It isn’t beautiful, or well shot. Its not in focus, no one is even looking, yet I keep coming back to it. And staring at it. I look at this picture and it just sums up exactly what kind of bride I was. Hyper, and ready to go. Everything was done, and I was rushing out of that house so fast – and everyone was just scrambling to keep up. I didn’t announce ‘Lets go,’ and wait for everyone, I just simply got up and started walking.

Wedding planning is an extremely overwhelming process. One minute you are on cloud 9, the next you are arguing with your relative about how something should be done. Then you argue with your fiancé some more about how your relative is arguing with you. And then you are on cloud 9 again. Every bride and wedding is different, but this is how it was for me. It was exhilarating. I had an energy that was just non-stop, and I moved from task to task super fast.

These feelings of exhilaration, and a need to resolve everything right then, told me outright – I could not have a long engagement. No way jose, it would have killed me. Our engagement was about 7 months. We set a date on Dec. 30, 2011 (my goal was to have ceremony and venue confirmed by New Year’s), and got hitched on May 19, 2012. Pretty fast I think. I am grateful I have this blog to look back and remember. Seriously.

I can honestly say, our wedding and honeymoon were the best days of my life. I am still beaming. But these amazing moments didn’t fall out of the sky, we worked so hard to make them that way. Matthew and I were saving and making sacrifices long before we got engaged, and a big part of why I am so happy is because I can finally say ‘we did it!’

I could go on and on about my how I felt through the process, but this post would be too long for any avid internet’s surfers’ attention span. And all you bloggy friends, I think you fall into that category.

So now that I've spilled my guts, and let you know I was a half crazy bride, what kind of bride were you?? I'd love to hear!

And now that I've got this introspective post out of the way, I can really start recapping. Like the good stuff. I don't come here to tell lies!

We're back!

So we are back from our honeymoon, which was amazeballs! Total relaxation + eating like a cow (which totally compensated for a full on eight weeks of supervised starvation) ..we went on some crazy adventures, which included swimming with dolphins, and I have a ton of pictures to download.. but I'll get to that later this week!

We just spent all day moving into our 3 month sublet apartment and moving pretty much ='s tired.

Just a few things before I get started:

Its time to start (eep.) recapping our wedding! And I'm a little unsure where to start.

I started this here blog to keep folks updated on our wedding, and well I just gotta finish it out!

But First, a Question: Do most people wait for their professional pictures-which take about a month- to arrive before they start recapping? Bc if so, that sounds totally cray and extremely delayed. Maybe I simply have no patience. 1 of the 3, most likely the latter.  No, waiting a month to recap sounds really terrible!

Former brides, give me the 411! I'm serious I don't know whether to wait or just start with friend's pictures

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I'll be back tomorrow with shopping for my dress & rehearsal dinner deets, because obviously that night doesn't involve professional pictures.

Where would you like to honeymoon?!?

HOLA- we are still in Mexico! I've Had a few cocktails and was karaoking... Video of my awful B Spears rendition to come soon.

Fashionable Sami from Colorado agreed to help me out and bring her shenanigans to my bloggy blog while I was away, so enjoy!

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So - Where is your dream honeymoon?
Sami's names a few if her top choices below:

Hello.. hello!

I know you would all love to be hearing from Tess right now..

but girlfriend is away on her honeymoon!

Yes, that's right Tess and Matt finally got hitched!

I'm sure the wedding was perfect and beautiful and I can't wait to see pictures.

However.. you're stuck with me today ;)

I'm Sami and I blog over at Sami's Shenanigans

I'm a 20-something, single girl, living it up in Denver.

A few things you should know about me?

I am obsessed with my sweet pup, Lily

I cheer hard for the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Denver Broncos

and I have a full-on obsession with Gavin DeGraw.

Now that we've got that out of the way..

I thought I would share with you where I would like to go on my honeymoon!

Kauai, Hawaii

This place looks pretty amazing.

I would love to relax on this gorgeous beach.

Fiji

Another beautiful beach.

I wouldn't mind hanging out here with my new husband!

Cancun, Mexico

I've been to Mexico, but never Cancun!

Looks like some pretty incredible views right?

Where do you guys think Tess and Matt are spending their first few days as Husband and Wife?

Wherever they are.. I'm sure they are having an amazing time!

Thanks so much to Tess for having me!

Feel free to come by my blog, I'd love to have you :)