You know when you were a girl you dreamed of the perfect wedding. Well I guess you would say that it’s my time.
  There are

a few things about me that don’t make me the typical bride, though.
  I definitely have a missionary mindset as far as not wanting to spend money. I am not all caught up in all the details either.

There is one part of the dream that has been hard to swallow in the realm of reality.
  As a girl you picture yourself going from store to store to pick the perfect wedding dress.
  At each location your mom will tell you how beautiful you are and most likely she will start to cry because she is so excite for you.
   Its this moment that I am missing.
  You see my mom lives 900 miles away. To buy a ticket is just too expensive. Not in the “I can’t afford it” way but in the “It doesn’t really make sense to spend the money while trying to pay for a wedding” way.
  So you might be asking what’s the point,
  I don’t know really.
  The only thing that comes to mind is words of a song.
  “He gives and takes away, He gives and takes away, my heart will choose to say, Lord blessed be Your name”.
  

At the brink of a marriage, I am getting to spend the rest of my life with my best friend.
  He is a man who loves me, protects me, cherishes me, and leads me.
  He wants to make sure that we focus on growing our relationship and growing in our relationship with the Lord.
  So maybe its ok, that I have to email my mom pictures of myself in different wedding dresses, and call mom while I’m in Hobby Lobby in Georgia while she is at Hobby Lobby in Oklahoma as we are looking at wedding albums and maybe I can still find joy in the small details when most of my family in friends are 900 miles away.

I know that I am blessed.
  My heart chooses every day to say “Blessed by Your name”!