A walk through our venue (a wedding update)

When we first got engaged, my sister Alicia sent me the website for Five Event Center. After scoping out the website, I forwarded it to Carlos and said “this is where we are getting married.”

No question. I told him if he didn’t like it, I’d find someone else to marry me. HA! Luckily, he loved Five Event Center as much as I did.

We set up a walk through and within a week, we had signed the contract. That was over a year ago. Since then, I’ve looked at the website often, drooling over the photos but we haven’t gone back.

Until last week.

We met our photographer, Stuart, at the Five Event Center so he could also check the place out and start getting ideas of pictures. As I walked around, I tried to imagine what it would be like, a little over 5 months from now, as I float thru the day wearing my wedding dress. I tried to imagine what it’d be like surrounded by 150 of our loved friends and family. I tried to imagine what it would be like saying I do to Carlos.

Stuart LOVED it – he was like a kid in a candy store, exploring all the corners and bold colors.

I got teary-eyed a few times – I’m such an emotional, sensitive sap!

I’ve got some paperwork I have to fill out for Stuart so he knows what kind of photos to take, the time frame, immediate family members and other important photography details. I admit I’ve had the paperwork for over two months and am slightly overwhelmed going through it. So much detail, so much reminder that mom isn’t here and won’t be in the photographs. I find myself procrastinating because I simply don’t want to go through the process.

But then, I see Carlos and know how much my mom loved him. And I know he and I, our wedding, our marriage is all that is really important.

Tonight after work, Carlos and I are going to take our engagement photos. After the sun sets. Downtown. It’ll be perfectly us.

I know our engagement and wedding photos are going to be beautiful, timeless and capture the love we have for each other and the love we will be surrounded with. I know our special day will be perfect, with mom in her front-row seat from heaven cheering as we say I do.