Wedding Overkill

I already had a slight obsession with weddings and then sometime last week I began to use Pinterest.

All I have to say is thank you to the creator(s) of the wonderful website. Now in 8 years when I actually get engaged and start planning my wedding, I won't have much work to do because I've already picked out my dress, the colors, Save the Dates, invitations, and much much more.

Dana thinks I am insane. And I think Tyler does to. I got so excited showing Dana everything the other day. As if Tyler and I were engaged. Yeah right. I'll wait. No rush here.

Funny right?! For someone who loves everything about weddings to say she'll wait?! Am I crazy? No. Okay maybe a little. But I'm young!!

Tyler and I met and started dating when we were 18. We were fresh out of high school and never expected that we would be dating who we are going to marry. I mean seriously, who does that? Apparently us.

Anyways, I'm barely 21 and Tyler isn't even there yet (yes I'm older & I make sure he remembers that! Haha). I still need to graduate with my bachelors and get into grad school or seminary, whichever I chose. Tyler wants to be a fireman. We have goals we still want to accomplish before we start a family. Plus studies are showing the leading cause of divorce is young marriage. 65% of those who wait til they are 26 have a lasting marriage.

I hate statistics, but that's one statistic I keep listening to. My parents married young and look what happened to them. My mom was my age when she had me. A year later out popped my sister and a year after that, a baby boy arrived. 6 years later they were filing for divorce after only 9 years of marriage. Although Tyler and I have already dated probably twice as long as they did before they got married and started having kids, I still feel like we have a lot of maturing to do individually and as a couple.

Plus, I know our wedding won't be as easy as I've made it on Pinterest. Tyler and I are going to butt heads the whole way through. I want small, he wants big. I want to get married in Waco, he wants Dallas. He wants 7 groomsmen, I don't know 7 people to be my bridesmaids. Plus, I have to pay for it all. My mom said she would help, but with my dad out of the picture completely, it's going to have to be a cheap wedding.

All I know is I'm going to be a basket full of tears that day. I can picture my brother walking me down that aisle with Dana and Taylor standing there making stupid faces on one side and Tyler on the other smirking like an idiot, and my mom and Todd standing to the side to say they are giving me away. It's going to be perfect.

But until then I keep planning every little detail on Pinterest until its perfect and cheap!

Happy pinning! ;)

And be blessed!!