Story of Us (part 2)

We had given ourselves the time frame of a year from that point, because that seemed far enough away that it was safe, because the concept of getting married was a little freaky. Since neither one of us had been planning on getting married, I think having that kind of time frame allowed us to wrap our minds around the concept without feeling panicked.

At the end of the spring semester, I had decided to go pursue an adventure selling pest control door to door in Vegas. That means Emily and I were planning on not being together for several months. Originally we had agreed that Emily would try and date around as much as possible. As time went on, she decided she didn't really want to date around, and I wasn't exactly going to try and convince her otherwise.

While I was in Vegas we actually didn't spend more than a week without seeing each other. Emily came down to St. George and I drove over to see her, and another time I stopped and saw her on my way to Rexburg to do some job hunting because I realized I came to Vegas at almost the end of the sales season, plus the job wasn't really for me.

After almost a month, I decided to move back up to Rexburg, and I was able to see Emily much more often. It's a good thing I did that, I honestly don't know how we would have survived several months of being apart. I'm such a pansy. I don't know how people wait for missionaries for several years.

While I was doing my Vegas thing, we decided maybe July was too far in the future, and we decided to move the wedding to April instead. To try and make a long story short, we continued to spent a huge amount of time with each other after the next semester started, and around August or September, we decided there's no reason to wait so long, and we moved it up to December. We no longer had the safe, far away date that we didn't have to worry about quite yet. Needless to say, we proceeded to start freaking out.

December seemed super close, but as little more time went by, Emily mentioned something about moving it up to Thanksgiving, and I had to think about it for a while, but I eventually came to the conclusion that although we would have no money, we would be happier if we got married sooner.

I then suggested we just do it in early November, three weeks before Thanksgiving, so that our family wouldn't have to change any Thanksgiving plans. We're so glad that we didn't have to wait, we were very ready to be married. We had gone over a book of 1001 questions to ask before you get married, and had talked about many, many issues of marriage, such as what to do on the holiday, how were were going to parent our kids, among many other things. We talked and talked about things. We would often get together and read a chapter of a book such as the Chronicles of Narnia and then talk for hours. We began to feel ready to just get married and see what it would actually be like. We were very aware that marriage can be very very challenging, but we had done all we could to prepare, and it was time to just do it. You can't merely speculate forever, eventually you just have to act.

So we got married. We had a very nontraditional wedding, which we were so happy with.

To be continued...