8 more days!!!

Here we are... 8 days away from the BIG day.  My family starts to fly in tomorrow, I am done with work for a month tomorrow.  Got my hair glamorfied this week.  Wedding checklist is diminishing.  LET THE WEDDING FESTIVITIES BEGIN!

I finally caught the stressed bug.  It has been a hard one to shake, but every day I am getting better.  There are so many details settling and specifics on my mind to finalize, it has been a tad exhausting.  I am such a perfectionist and worrier though that it wouldn't be me if I wasn't running around with a few screws loose. 

As for the emotions... it has finally hit me.  I was so excited about being as calm as I was with idea of walking down the aisle to a man waiting to take my hand and MARRY ME.  But as the time is approaching and the reality is a lot more real... I have those wedding jitters.  Not that I am at all second guessing, or worried, or anything negative... it is just such a big step in life.  I have always been the one that is so excited for a trip for weeks and weeks.  And then the idea of change (even for a trip) comes up a few days before and I decide I am so comfortable where I am, why rock the boat.  Not that getting married is rocking any boat, but it is a change.  And I am notorious for being very intimidated by change. 

Luckily it is Nate that is in my corner, and I know how this story goes.  When we got engaged (and I knew it was happening) I was a total wreck.  For like a solid month actually.  When the day arrived, I seriously had such a panic attack I started going numb in the hands and lost my sense of hearing.  As he started to propose, I nearly fainted.  A strong daze followed for about an hour and then.... BLISS.  I have never been so happy or felt more at peace in my entire life.  Ever.  I remember that night as we went to the spa for massages my face hurt.  It literally hurt from the constant smile I had.  That pain lasted a solid 5 days, I swear I didn't stop smiling for five days.  Every single day that has followed has been the best day of my life.  Taking the plunge to get engaged was my single most favorite thing I have ever done, and I have been ECSTATIC to feel the high of initial pride of my decisions ever since.  Thus meaning that instead of me calmly walking down the aisle next Saturday, I am going to nervously walk down.  And all our guest will get a very raw and real view of two people bearing their hearts to each other, and humbly making the single most important choice they have ever made.  I think it will be magical.

Long story short, if I am being honest- I have pre wedding jitters.  But if I am being realistic- I am so so excited for my face to hurt.

And now because I am a visual learner, here are a few photos I took at my final walkthrough Saddlerock, makeup trials, and me at my final fitting....

Say hi to my new DO.  OUCH