I'm still waiting on wedding photos to come back from our photographer and I wanted to show those before moving on to the honeymoon, but I'm feeling the urge to write, so I'm going to give you a few posts about how this wedding came together, the people involved in making it happen and the days leading up to the BIG day. You'll probably also learn a lot about me...how I tick, the crazy things I think about, and what a SAINT Kevin is for loving me through it all!
Poor Kevin! He planned the proposal just in the nick of time, because boy was he was on a tight deadline! Many factors were involved in the timeline of our wedding. I know this is silly, but I was initially planning on a 2-3 week honeymoon in Italy and my passport was set to expire in August of 2013, so I told him there was no way I was going to renew my passport with my maiden name on it, only to turn around after we were married and order a new passport with "Brosseau" and pay the $110 fee again and fill out the paperwork again, etc., etc. So, we HAD to get married and travel by that deadline...and I think they say you can't travel 6 months before your passport is to expire, so that narrowed it down a bit too!
I also had an issue about WHEN our wedding was. "Special" days are really important to me and all of the big ones we celebrate need to be evenly spaced out. Here's our year in a nut-shell: February 14-Valentine's Day, May 13- Our Dating Anniversary (and I know you say, "you're married, why will you celebrate that?" and I will answer, #1 because if we had never dated, we'd never be married and that's the day it all kicked off, and #2 because I'm Type-A and I know that's when it was and I HAVE to celebrate it or else I'll get a crazy twitch or something...maybe not, but I can't NOT celebrate it. True Story!), July 25- Kevin's Birthday, December 25- Victoria's Birthday. So, you see, there was a BIG gap between Kevin's birthday and mine and it needed to be filled with our wedding date so that throughout the year that was equal opportunity for celebration. (I told you I'm Type-A!)
October wasn't really important. It could have also been September. However, it could NOT have been November or December because then you get into Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. And, you see, December is REALLY too much for me. With my birthday being on Christmas, it's like all of the excitement of the entire year culminates on one day and then it's over and post-party depression sets in. Maybe that's why I'm so adamant that everything be spaced out! You know how all of you "normal birthday" people think about what you want for your birthday and what special activities you may want to do on that day and you might make a list of birthday gifts you'd like? Well, I only do that once and it includes Christmas gifts as well, so it's only one time in the whole year. AND I don't get to do anything special on my birthday because all of you "normal birthday" people, who I also call friends, are with your families and you don't have time to come celebrate me...and no restaurants are open...and...you get the point! My whole life has been a series of 1 celebratory day per year (Christmas) and then nothing for the next 364 days. Except for Valentine's Day...but you don't celebrate that when you're alone.
So...Kevin brought with him to the relationship Valentine's Day and our dating anniversary and now I had control over an additional day (our Wedding Day) that I could schedule anytime I wanted to, to REALLY even things out!
Then there's the fact that Kevin's birthday is on the 25th of July and mine is the 25th of December, so we have double 25s going on. Ironically enough, 25 is each of our "lucky" numbers. So, with our dating anniversary being on May 13th, I thought, WOW, October 13th, which was a Saturday this year, would be PERFECT. Like seriously perfect! Then we'd have double 13s and it would make remembering the day easier for Kevin! I like to help him out! :) (It would also mean our anniversary could fall on Friday the 13th one year, which wasn't a plus for me.)
Well, it was not to be! We fell in love with our reception venue and it was booked every Friday and Saturday in September and October. And every Sunday in September and October, except for October 14th. UNTIL 2013 folks. And that couldn't work out with the passport schedule. Plus, why be engaged for more than a year if you love each other now and want to get married now and the reception location you love is available October 14th (a Sunday). So that did it. We were locked in and ready to roll and I was super happy because now I get to celebrate something big every couple of months (3 months max between celebrations = one VERY happy Victoria)!
Now if only I can place our kids birthdays in-between our other special days, we'll be set. And by place, I mean conceive 9 months before and plan it all out so their birthdays don't fall in a month where we're already celebrating something else. Good luck to me right? HA! It's official, I'm a nutcase!
Ummm...and again poor Kevin because before he had even proposed, I was sure it was going to happen soon (because I had placed him on a timeline after-all) and so I was already getting in the wedding mode and making plans without a ring on my finger. And I booked us for a wedding show....dun, dun, dunnnnn (cue doom, gloom and destruction music!)..in January. More on that next post!
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