Showered in Happiness | Pre-Wedding Festivities.

As February bowed out as gracefully as it could, I welcomed March with celebration, wonderful and caring friends, blessings, excitement, lace, my mama, and cupcakes. February was short and sweet and to the point. While at the same time, seeming to speed through a very long twenty-eight days of winter chill. 

those people I live with daily

the wonderful mastermind

this girl drove all the way to see me!

My beautiful bridesmaid, Emily, threw me a bridal shower for my college friends who would otherwise be unable to make it to a bridal shower I might receive while I am home in a few weeks. I am so thankful for the friends I've made here at school. Quality over quantity. Always. I have been blessed this year to live in an apartment with such awesome ladies as well. The first few years of this college thing were a struggle, but it's so fulfilling seeing where I am now, the people I've chosen to surround myself with and the state of mind, body and soul I get to bring away from this chapter. I am swimming in blessings and thankfulness towards the people who have taken me in, seen me at my best and worst and chosen to treat me with love and patience regardless. I am constantly stunned and saddened that they have never met my fiance because of circumstances. But have accepted him nonetheless.  

Even though I have been fighting the "Pinterest wedding" theme tooth and nail, I am so very obsessed with Emily's Pinterest-esque decor. I guess I just don't want a "Pinterest wedding" because so many people have done it. I want my wedding to not just be unique, but be us. That's really important to me. I want our wedding to be personal. I don't want our guests to question even for a second who's wedding they are at. Which, in  sense, sounds silly. But hey, I'm the bride. (I always forget I can use that!!!) Not be Pinterest. Or the other hundred million girls who've gotten married in a barn with mason jars (no offense, I really love that rustic look and have incorporated some of it into our wedding). 

However...

I love that we can incorporate lace and maps and little personal details and likes of ours (or mine, not that my military man fiance is super into lace). This weekend has been an invitation for me to start making some headspace among the last-semester-of college-work to start thinking about May 31st again. And that makes me happy. 

I mean, 

only three more months? 

Holy moly!