The Date

After great debate and conferring with a few important people, Joe and I have settled on a date.

I guess it seems silly that we had to have so much discussion about it, cause really, what else do you have to pick, other than the time of year you want to have your wedding???

However, there was a very special day I had in mind when Joe and I even mentioned getting married in the future, a while ago...little did I know, Joe took the info and ran with it, basing his whole proposal and our engagement around that very day, without me knowing.

The tricky part, of course, is that I have two great friends also getting married around the same time and did not want to interfere with their special days or have any hurt feelings. My very first college friend Andrea is getting married two weeks prior and Kayte, who I've known since elementary school, just bumped up her date a bit and is getting married only one week after! It took me countless hours of weighing the options and the "what ifs" to come to a conclusion, which drove Joe crazy--because as he saw it, this is our ONE day to do exactly what we want to make it special and knew that having it on this date meant the world to me. He also knows that I have great friends who will also appreciate the day's importance.

For some reason, I was nervous to tell Kayte and Andrea--for the slight chance that it might negatively affect their plans or think they were not considered in our decision, which was FAR from the truth. But of course, both lovely ladies took the news gracefully and were supportive.

So after much ado, and conferencing with them and a select few other friends and family, we have finalized our date. Of course, I had to run it by my Queen of Etiquette friend, Sarah, whose mom happened to be present at the time and pretty much summed it up:

"It only happens every seven years."

"It" (being my father's birthday), coincidentally falls on a Saturday the year Joe and I plan to get married.

And so, 9.26.09 it is.

I figure if my dad can't be there to walk me down the aisle, the best birthday present I could ever give him is knowing his daughter will be taken care of for the rest of her life by the best man she could have ever dreamed to have met.