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So the big day is over and I'm reeling with excitement to show you guys our wedding photos but I haven't collected them from our photographer so that's gotta wait so I thought I'd just share a little bit about the day without giving too much away. 

Let's start with the night before. 

I was surprisingly well-prepared and cool-headed the night before the wedding, so much so I agreed to have dinner with my bridesmaids, despite many people's warnings. "You should have an early night", "You should be trying to tie up loose ends", etc. From the beginning, I decided I was going to do things my way (it's MY wedding right?) and I kept firm on that throughout, I wasn't going to change a night before the wedding! 

Gonna side-track here for a moment.

So I'm not sure if the dinner with the bridesmaids was meant to be a surprise cause all three of them messaged me at once and Hannah had already told me the dinner was at Salt grill and sky bar (I think that's what they call it) but Carol was acting really weird, trying to keep me away from there by distracting me with shopping. Or maybe the balloons and confetti were the surprise?! I'm still unclear! Lol. But it was lovely!! I had a crown and a sash too!!

Back to the story

Carol stayed over with me that night. Thank goodness. It was all kinds of comforting with her beside me. The nerves and excitement kicked in at about midnight, with the sudden realization that THE DAY was finally here. Obviously, I didn't get to sleep until 6, which only left me with an hour of sleep. 7.30am came too quickly. Surprisingly I woke up even before my alarm could go off, and like I was on auto-pilot, I got out of bed, washed up, woke Carol up, ate a banana, laid out everything I needed and got ready for my makeup person. If you knew me well, you'd know this was an amazing feat for me. To say that I'm not a morning person is a huge understatement. I loathe mornings with a passion. 

Before I give anything away, I'm going stop here. So annoying right? I apologize. I promise I'll write again soon.

But I will leave you with this - overall, the mindset I had about the day was it was going to be great regardless what happened. It could rain, I could've fallen while walking down the aisle, the ring pillow could've gone missing (which it did, by the way).. None of it mattered anymore. I had mentally prepared myself for a non-perfect day. I knew as much as we had planned, as much as we had prepared for the day, something was bound to go wrong (damn that Murphy) but I was ready to leave it to God and focus on the bigger picture - I was finally marrying my best friend.