Yup, that is how many days I have left until I become a mar­ried lady. I can now count them on one hand.

Miraculously I’ve only had one wed­ding anx­i­ety dream (hope­fully I’m not speak­ing too soon), which involved for­get­ting to tell my pho­tog­ra­pher where to be and sub­se­quently los­ing any and all con­tact infor­ma­tion for them, as well as my makeup artist not show­ing up and some ran­dom per­son from the hotel mak­ing me up to look like a hooker from the ‘80s. Lovely, huh?

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As usual I had the best inten­tions of still shar­ing a post here and there while in the final stages of prepa­ra­tions and plan­ning, and as usual I bit off more than I could chew. So this is a brief hello and a lit­tle bit of a longer (though tem­po­rary) goodbye.

I’ve seen a lot of soon-to-to-be-married blog­gers post about how their blog will change after the wed­ding. But I don’t see this one chang­ing much, aside from my per­spec­tive being a bit dif­fer­ent from the other side. I can’t wait to be mar­ried and I def­i­nitely can’t wait to spend a week and a half in Maui. But, believe me, I also can­not wait to be back to our nor­mal life (which will be sort of a new nor­mal, admit­tedly) so that I can resume post­ing, design­ing for Seamless Paperie, and maybe once and for all get­ting our apart­ment dec­o­rated and orga­nized (though I’m prob­a­bly kid­ding myself there). So in 3ish weeks you can look for­ward to more inspi­ra­tion boards, more awe­somely designed paper goods, and more cre­ative wed­ding finds. Not to men­tion a com­plete recap on the wed­ding and all of my vendors.

It still hasn’t com­pletely dawned on me that it’s all hap­pen­ing this week­end though. And I have a feel­ing it won’t until I’m sit­ting in our hotel suite get­ting my hair and makeup done sur­rounded by my favorite ladies. I’m feel­ing more emo­tions than I can even deci­pher — but mostly a com­bi­na­tion of nerves, excite­ment and gid­di­ness — and if I think about it for too long it gets a bit overwhelming.

So now I’m off to tie up the last few loose ends that are still lin­ger­ing around, spend time with friends and fam­ily and make the biggest and most excit­ing com­mit­ment I’ve ever made. Thanks for stick­ing around and shar­ing in this whole expe­ri­ence with me. Be back soon.

P.S. Welcome Inspired Bride read­ers! Please check back in a few weeks for a lot more posts!