Monday, June 15, 2009

Kristen's Wedding


My husband and I got engaged in April, so soon after; wedding planning took over my life! But nothing seemed to go right, everywhere seemed to be booked, I couldn’t decide what type of wedding I wanted (small, large, close friends, etc) I really couldn't even decide on a date.


My husband is a professional wrestler and at the time he was training in Tampa and his career was just starting to take off, so we had the whole long distance relationship going on, and trying to plan a wedding around when he could take time off. If you aren’t familiar

with wrestling, its 12 months a year, pretty much the only vacation they get is if they need surgery! We finally decided on December 13, although I really wanted a fall wedding.


Well, one thing started to fall through after the other. For example, I finally decided on having the reception at the Marriott downtown. Only to find out a few months later, they hadn’t penciled me in like they said! So there I was at square one again. I was reeeaally starting to get stressed at this point. In September, Teddy (my husband) was asked to audition for a movie, The Marine II. We found out a few weeks later they wanted h

im as the main character! It was very exciting, but....they tell him he will be gone November 10- December 20 to film the movie in THAILAND, just in time to miss the wedding!!


First, we decided to wait until he got back from filming to get married. But after LOTS and I mean LOTS of prayer we decided to go ahead and get married. Teddy's usually gone from Friday to Tuesday and there really wasn’t any time for him to take off for the wedding. So we got married on a Thursday night. The wedding was literally planned in two days and his mom's friends and my mom’s friends did everything! Cooked, decorated, everything! The only for sure thing about the wedding was my dress had actually come in!! I had planned on having 11 bridesmaids, 11 groomsmen, ordered 500 invitations. Needless to say we scaled down ALOT.


The wedding was October 30, smack dab in the middle of fall just like I always wanted. It was PERFECT, just close friends and family. The weather was absolutely beautiful (it was outside on a lake) and all the people I loved and cared about helped put it all together! Looking back, it is very evident that the Lord knew all along what would happen. Nothing seemed to go right; I was never completely satisfied with my plans because His plan was sooo much better.


And if I had to do it all over again, I would do it the exact same way.

~Kristen



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