far as the East is from the West

I love a good sappy rom com. I also am obsessed with watching wedding videos on youtube, is it creepy to watch strangers wedding videos??? *asking for a friend*

As I watch these videos I cannot help but to become so overjoyed and filled with love and excitement for my own wedding day. Regardless of the fact that I get to be surrounded by all of my friends and family, I will be publically committing myself to the man of my dreams. I get to spend these next few months preparing for the celebration of a lifetime. In the end who cares if all of the ribbons don’t match or I have a ton of fly aways, the fact that I will see my handsome fiance turned husband makes me want to cry all over again.

More often than not when I watch wedding videos I always cry when the bride and groom are reading their vows to each other and when the bride sees her father.

Obviously I cry at the vows because 1. I love sappy romance and 2. I place myself in their shoes, reading my commitments aloud to my husband. A vow to always choose to love him because love is a choice, a vow to keep God at the center of our relationship because without him we wouldn’t be together in the first place.

Now I also cry when the bride sees her father because it is such a special moment (not me holding back tears as I write this), a moment where a father sees his little girl one last time before she is a wife. I think forward to the moment when I will see my dad on my wedding day- to show him my dress for the first time, to have a small moment together before the celebrations begin. I have such a special relationship with both of my parents and even thinking about them giving me away on my wedding makes me melt.

For the past few months, I have been dwelling on the want to move our wedding day up solely so we can start our life together already. Rather than wishing thoughts of the future, I can focus on the now and prepare myself as I am about to completely change my life. Not only am I preparing for our wedding, but also preparing for a marriage; a place that will be vulnerable, challenging but oh so worth it.

Hannah