Ready for the wedding?

I find it amazing that we spend our whole lives planning for one day, and we don't take one day to prepare for the rest of our lives.

   I'm getting married in 5 days. It's crazy to think about. Last I checked I was still 7 years old riding around on my dad's shoulder and pointing at all the scary grown-up rides at Great America. My dad was the strongest man in the world. I was still playing with Polly Pockets, and I was convinced that one day I would be a world renown horse trainer like Pat Perrelli. And I always dreamed of my wedding day. It would be beautiful, at my grandparents home tucked in the California Mountians, and that my true love would look like the mix of Shia LeBeouf and Juaquin Phoenix, (okay, no one said I was very ambitious when I was a kid, because that would have been one ugly guy... Anyway!).

   Well, Polly Pocket is gone, I don't ride horses, and Great America is a thing of the past. My wedding isn't in California, and my man is way better looking than the Shia/Phoenix mutt I dreamed about. I always dreamed that I would be happy too, and I am glad to report, I was wrong, I'm happier than I ever could have dreamed.

   Since I met Sam, I've not dreamed about the wedding, but the marriage. The good times and the bad. We've traveled a long hard road to get to where we are, but I believe we are stronger for it. If we had not faced the trials we did, I'm not sure we would be getting married on Saturday. It was our love and devotion that kept us together when we were so far apart. And it was the simplicity in our hearts that made us believe we only needed eachother to be happy.

   I'm not sure if I'm ready to have a wedding, but I know I'm ready to be married. God allows us humans to love. And He also gave us the free will to love whoever we chose. I thank God for those gifts. They are the most precious things we possess.