Easily Pleased

Though I ask a lot of the people in my life, I am very easily pleased. I ask my friends to attend celebrations and, yet, am delighted when they arrive. I ask Bradley for a date night and giggle unendingly when he makes it happen. And my happiness is always sincere; I am always touched when someone does something for me or with me in mind. This has not changed in regards to my wedding.

The first person to help me out was Jen Estroff, my maid of honor. The first month of Bradley and my engagement, she went through magazines with me, scouring for ideas and inspiration. More recently, she spent an afternoon helping make the paper flowers that will replace real ones throughout my wedding (the US Department of Agriculture doesn't allow transport of real flowers). I know that this is just the beginning of what I will ask Jen to do in the next 14 months, but I'm amazed that she has been so overwhelmingly willing to help!

Craig Big Eagle and Molly Beier have been instrumental in creating save-the-dates. Once Princess puts out their freaking schedule, we will be all set to go because of these two! Molly's ideas and photo manipulation have been extraordinary! I'm so lucky to have such a talented friend. Craig's patience has been fantastic, as well, tweaking tiny details until everything is just the way I want it! As the Queen of Everything Paper and a groomsman, I know that I will ask these two to do even more throughout the planning process, but I am touched every time one of them asks me how the Save-the-Dates are going or what else they can do for me.

Last week, however, the cake goes to Bradley. Bradley will take the LSATs tomorrow (it's technically Sunday right now, so tomorrow) and just received his last final two days ago to complete his undergraduate degree, so I've vowed to not bother him with wedding stuff until all of that is over. And I've been very good!!!! Imagine my surprise, then, when I open an e-mail from him on Wednesday tell me that he has found a wedding band for himself! This long before our wedding, he is asking for my opinion on one particular band. In my crazy brain, of course, I realized that this means that he has been looking for a band on his own! I happen to think that the band is perfect and, even more important, Bradley really likes it. So he bought it! He bought the band that will make him my husband!!!!!!!

This is certainly not the last thing I will ask him to do in the wedding process, but I'm so amazingly happy that he has done this!!!!!!!!!!!