Sooo… Kyle and I have definitely proven to each other that we can be flexible with plans!!
We had planned to get married next May, have the small family ceremony on a Friday night and the big reception the next day. Well…. neither Kyle or I were very excited about waiting 8 more months to get married, like my momma said “when you find the one you want to be with, you just want to be with them!”
Finally, after a miserable week of me being super emotional (like. crying. every. day.) we finally talked and decided we should ask my parents if they would be OK with us getting married in December, and still keep the reception and a family celebration next spring when they’re here.
So, we called my parents. We talked to mom first and after I blurted it out, she laughed, said she was expecting it and we talked through it. Talked about what it would look like if they weren’t here, that we would do a very small, casual ceremony, and have a very special family celebration when everyone was here. Then dad came in and we asked him, he was a little more reluctant, but by the next day they’d let us know it was OK, and that they understood.
So, the next week and a half went by with us planning for a tiny December wedding in our living room.
Then we got very, very good news!! My Uncle Alan and Aunt Sharon gave my parents frequent flyer miles and they are going to be here for the wedding!!! It is so exciting and awesome to me to see how God worked it all out! I’m so thankful that my parents will be here for the wedding, and once we changed plans around a little more I feel like it’s so great and suited to Kyle and I and our families!
We’re having a little bit fancier wedding on December 17th with just our immediate family. We’re having it at the Westminster Lobby that has a grand staircase I’ll get to walk down 
We’ll have a really special ceremony, and then follow it up with dinner at Cerulean!
Then, we changed up the plans for next summer and moved the reception to June so that we could do it at Kyle’s parents house and just have a super fun, chill, relaxed reception. We’ve got some pretty fun ideas for that, so stay tuned
That’s the update on wedding plans… I’m sitting in my apartment tonight, first evening in so long that I’ve just hung out at home alone. Kyle did came out for dinner after work and we went to Alpha Dining Hall for a yummy African dinner! This week is the Conference on Missions so every night they’re having food from a different continent. Dinner was awesome, but after dinner Kyle and I parted ways so that we’d each have some time to ready and get ready for pre-marital counseling. Tomorrow we have lunch with Pastor Sprankle and after dinner we’re going to our marriage mentors house. A full day of marriage prep!
With that said, I have more reading to do! G-night!
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SmallTownRunner