A Dream Come True

I cannot contain my excitement right now!  I just finished the most wonderful day with my parents and my future in-laws!  The ONLY thing that could have made today absolutely perfect would have been if Dave was home and could have joined us in our festivities!  I’ll lay out the day for you with as much excitement as I can share through the Internet!

10:00 Families met at Boulder Ridge Golf Course in Lake in the Hills, IL. Our parents have met a few times before so this wasn’t a first meeting; it was still fun to have everyone together!  Dave’s parents hadn’t seen the venue yet and they fell in love just as quickly as we did!  YEAH!!!   Following some great conversation we traded cars and the ladies headed out to look at wedding dresses while the men headed to Lake Zurich Golf Club for a little afternoon golf! 

12:30 We had SO MUCH FUN at Wedding Belle’s in Barrington!  We met up with a family friend and she took it from there!  I had tried on dresses at another store about a month ago and found 2 dresses that I really liked so I knew the style I was looking for.  The nice things about Wedding Belle’s is that you buy the actual dress you try on.  They have a few styles that they can special order but for the most part they are sample dresses that other stores have sent to them to sell.  So what you see is exactly what you get.  I decided (since I had the time) to try on a variety of dresses even though I had a dream dress in mind.  I tried on poufy Cinderella-ish dresses, mermaid dresses, lacy dresses, beaded dresses, simple dresses, dresses with straps…you name it I basically tried it.  And let me tell you…SO FUN!!!  I narrowed it down to a single dress (the second one I tried on actually) and every other dress was compared to the feeling I had in that one.  None compared (and the feeling I had today did not compare to that of the one I felt in the dress I liked at the other store).  So they have you put the dress you REALLY like back on and then they have you go downstairs and Marsha does your hair and Adele finds the perfect veil.  Oh my gosh!  We were all in tears!!!  Good, happy, loving tears!  I could not believe the look of it all put together!!!  The dress, the hair, the veil, the hairpiece (which my future mother in law offered to pay for!)…such an amazing feeling!  And…DRUM ROLL PLEASE!

I SAID YES TO THE DRESS!!!!!

That is all the detail you get…especially since my fiancé reads this blog!  Sorry honey bunny!  No freebies here!  All I have to say is I love the elegance of the dress and the feeling I had with it all together!  I did not wait to take it off!  And knowing that it’s just chillin’ at my parents house right now is killing me! I just want to wear it all the time!!!  I guess I have to put it out of my mind!!!

2:30 I cancelled the other appointments we had for the day.  Hey!  When you know…you know!  Why waste your time and the time of others!?!? 

3:00 The ladies headed to Lake Zurich to meet up with the gents and we enjoyed a few cocktails and some wonderful conversations!  Following a tour of the clubhouse and some history of the club lessons with Uncle Mark and Dad Fedota the Fedota clan invited the others to come see the church.

6:30  We got to All Saints and walked through a few of the logistics that we already knew.  It is all beginning to feel so incredibly real and it’s still more than a year away!  How crazy it that!  I have the addresses for the Save the Date cards and am hoping to get those out in the next few weeks!  AHHHHH!!!!  This is really happening! 

7:00  Tour of Palatine.  I gave my future in-laws a nice little driving tour (as much as you can direct from the back seat!!!!) of Palatine.  They saw FHS (where I teach & went to HS), Pleasant Hill (my elementary school), the house I grew up in, the condo I currently live in, the general vicinity of Durty Nellies, the apartment I lived in when Dave and I started dating, and a few of the local restaurants that Dave and I enjoy frequenting! 

9:30  Conclusion of dinner at Gianni’s in downtown Palatine and our goodbyes.  I didn’t want today to end but I know it’s just the first of many wonderful days together planning this amazing event for Dave and I! I can’t believe how much of a dream this has been!  Oh my goodness!  I, no WE, are so incredibly lucky to have so many people who love and care about us!

Off to sleep for this chica!  All this excitement really made me tired!!!  PHEW!!!!  I know I will be having such wonderful dreams!!!