so happy! sorry im sickening.

So by this point (Friday) I’ve calmed down a little bit – I mean, don’t get me wrong, I am THRILLED, but after sitting at work all day on Thursday not doing a BIT of work, I had to put that aside for a little bit and actually try to do something! I think one of the best parts is my mother. Not that I ever thought she wouldn’t be excited for us, I just didn’t realize she would be SO into it!! On day 1 she was already sending links, ideas, locations, etc – all day long!! Originally we wanted to do a destination wedding [bad]. Neither me or D are the ‘typical Jersey bullshit’ wedding types. There will be no big nasty ‘hall’ somewhere, gaudy and over-done. No way. So we thought escaping to an island, partying and getting married on the beach was perfect for us. We love the beach, we live there – its just really our laid-back style. But the more we looked into it, the more we realized as much as we didn’t want 250 people there, we probably wouldn’t even have the people there that we DID want. It was just too much. And I said from the beginning, we need to see if the pro’s outweigh the con’s. if it looks like more bad then good, then we will have to adjust accordingly. So as we looked into Bermuda it just didn’t seem do-able. Then, my wonderful mother sends me a link of a cool idea in Newport [our second choice]. It was PERFECT for us!! The company is a clambake caterer – and we’re basically planning our wedding around that. We all love the idea, and it is perfectly us. Not fussy, not to chic, just FUN. It’s served on china, under a beautiful tent outside, where we get married right there (hopefully – we are meeting there on Sept 10 to make a final choice), and then dance and party the night away. It’s all falling into place and I am SO freakin excited. Its really great that D is from RI too, because its fun for us, my parents (and us) LOVE Newport, but it is also a bit of a reference to his upbringing. I’m just so happy and can’t wait!!
I mean if there was no mom, I don’t know if I would have ANYTHING done.

Now I just need to stress out, lose some weight and make it through the next year.

And DAMMIT. D is away on travel for work for the next 2 WEEKS!!!!!!!!! This doesn’t seem fair to me! But I am going there to visit him on Friday, so I really only have 4 nights of sleeping alone to handle until then. I CAN DO IT. Although I have to say I feel really lonely already and I haven’t even been home yet!!