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For me, it was the first time my Fh introduced me as his fiance. I've been so used to hearing "girlfriend" but that first time I heard the F word, I got chills! Wow! I'm a fiancee and this is for real!
Oooh, that's a good one! I remember the night we got engaged we were laying in bed talking and he asked me if I would take his last name. When I said yes, he got sooooo excited. I remember I got butterflies in my stomach!
It's not yet to me at all...not until the ring lands. Then we'll see. I have been firmly entrenched in my "single mom but working" status for the last 5 years and have done fine as is.
I'll probably flip out when it happens.
With 2 months to go, it's still not real to me. But I'm going to be mailing our invitations out next week, so I think once we start getting our RSVP's back, it will be real to me.
I think it started to feel like "Wow, this is really happening!" when we started to receive RSVP postcards. It started to really hit me that people were going to be there and WE were going to be the ones getting married!
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when i heard canon in d start playing and the wedding party started walking down the aisle. that's when i started getting really nervous and realized... omg this is it!
The moment I saw my daughter in 'the dress' . I knew it was real. We were buying a dress and my 'baby' was getting married. I cried (alot) and we celebrated. It was a wonderful day.
Today. Not only did I mail out my invitations today, but I also went to the knot to check that off the list and noticed 52 days until the wedding. 52! OMG!
The e-ring...trying on wedding dresses. Making a financial committment to vendors this week has also makes it seem real in a concrete way, beyond all the daydream planning I've done over the past couple of months. ;)
I still don't think it has totally hit me. I have moments (like seeing our names printed on the invites) but I think I will be like Mrs. Bee, it will hit walking down the aisle!
The wedding became real at the rehearsal to me. We were all being total goof balls and having a great time (though annoying my wedding planner a bit i think!). It was practicing when we turn to face each other etc that really made it - "WE'RE GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW!!" to me. I think I was glowing as we finished the rehearsal and went out for dinner.
We have been engaged for a while, but it didt really seem 'real' to me until just this past week. We FINALLY put a deposit on the venue. We had looked at it at the beginning of the year and knew what date we wanted, but we could never get there to cut a check for them. Now that we have an official date and place its like "wow, im really getting married" I love it!
Ummmmm about 30 minutes before the wedding =]
No seriously, it hit me like a train. I had mini realizations in the little months leading up to it, but it felt so freakin' normal to be planning a wedding. Even after being laced up, I was so la la la about it. Then when everyone was in the room and people were fawning excessively over me, it started to hit me.
I had my first little realization today. We went to the church and met with the priest there. He outlined what we have to do and we talked about timelines for getting all of our paperwork in order. And I was like "omg we have paperwork now!" lol It feels more real after this. Lots of work to do!
We bought the engagement ring together and that made the engagement feel real. Funnily though, choosing vendors, paying vendors, touring location sites didn't make it feel real. When we sat down last weekend and really talked through how we were going to walk away from the deposits, the guest lists, and frustrating family issues to elope - that's when it felt real. I think I'm really getting married in a month and a half and oh my god, it's scary! And exciting! The dread I had over the wedding day has turned into anticipation of putting on my dress and doing my hair and saying, "I do!"
when he first said
"we need to look at engagement rings"
my heart made a little somersault
that was when I knew my life would change--it was also the same words that served as his proposal
I will be only 5 months engaged so everything has been a whirlwind of planning since then
but those words changed my life
I think it will feel real when I'm getting ready to walk down the aisle. Even though I'm planning for this day, part of me still feels like it's for someone else, that there really ISN'T a wedding coming!
It's funny. We've been engaged over a year now, and it didn't really start to feel real until two weeks ago when we got our invitations back from our designer. I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're planning a destination wedding, and haven't really met with many of our vendors face-to-face (everything's through phone and e-mail). So actually seeing our invitations did it for me.
I am not fully there yet with the "real" feeling but it has started with the shower I had last Saturday. I think once we get the rings (this Friday) and the license (31st) it will seem more real.
For me, it was when we received our first wedding present. I kept thinking, "Wait a second, other people are already acknowledging this wedding thing we're having?!" It seemed so much less real before that.
We had a short engagement (got 6 months) and we didn't start planning until 3 months before the wedding so everything was a bit rushed. Which meant I kept focusing on getting things ready and done. I think it finally felt real about 30 minutes before the walk. After I had put on my makeup and dress, I looked in the mirror and thought "oh my!! I'm a bride and I'm getting married!" :)
It started to feel really real for me when my fiance came out from California the week before the wedding. We stayed busy all week with preparations and I just had to keep pinching myself that this was really happening!
In some ways, even though life is incredibly different, it's hard to realize I'm married! I have a new name, a new home, family, job...and I'm still trying to get to a point that this is my life now!
So far my biggest lightbulb moment was when we ordered the invites. It made me cry!!
Hasn't really hit me 'hard' yet. Like EJS, I have had mini realizations here and there which are kind of like "oh my god, oh my god" then 5 minutes later it's passed. I think I will be one of those brides where it will feel real when I am walking down the aisle!
agggh!!! so soon! 38 days!
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I know for me it was when we sent out our invitations. It startled me, because before then it always seemed like our wedding was something way off in the distant future... I guess it seemed like more of a dream than a reality. It wasn't until I was on my way to the post office that I realized that it really was happening. I had another experience the other day when my FI brought home our wedding rings. What about you ladies, did you have any "wow, this is for real" moments?