25 days until the BIG day!!!

Today I am flying back to Arkansas but I will only be there a measly 20 days before I fly back to Tennessee to get married. It is a very surreal experience. This event that I have been planning for the past eight months is about to be over; more importantly, I will be a married woman. I can not wait to marry the man of my dreams and would have done it sooner if I could have. Still, it's just an odd feeling. This could be because I have never experienced this before, so I will try an analogy.

Try to remember the feeling of right before you get on the best water ride ever. You have been counting down the days until you get to go the water park, then once you arrive you wait in line (for forever so it seems) and finally IT'S YOUR TURN!!!! In that split second before you race down the ride, you don't ever want this excited feeling to end. You never want the ride to be over. But you can never know the full extent of the ride unless you experience the entire thing; including the end.

So as my wedding day approaches and although I don't want it to be over, I am ready to be married, which consist of ending my wedding day and celebration. I am ready to also experience the aftermath of the wedding. Things like going on the honeymoon, going to other weddings (as a married woman), celebrating Christmas with my spouse, celebrating the good days and being there for the not so good-all of these are things that occur AFTER the "water ride" (or wedding day) ends. My feelings are bittersweet. I don't want a part of this experience to be over, but then again, I am ready to experience life with the person God has chosen for me to be my spouse.