Yippee!

I went to the county courthouse this morning to get an application for a marriage license. I circled the block three times to find a parking space. I stood in line to go through the metal detector. I looked awkwardly at the directory to figure out where the county clerk's office is located. I observed the armed guards, the cops, the lawyers, and all the people in the hallway awaiting their court appearances. Then I was "helped" by a very nasty woman in the clerk's office who gave me half-answers to my questions and smirked at me disapprovingly when I told her my fiance is in the military and we're trying to get married before his deployment.

The whole experience was terrible.

I thought, I can't get married here. I hate courthouses. I've already spent more time in them than I would've liked, and I don't want my wedding to be here. This whole place sucks, and I hope I never get called up for jury duty so I never have to come back.

Then I had another small round of panic where I thought, shit, what am I going to do now? I'm running out of time!

But then it all came together. Oh yes. I kicked some ass today.

I settled on a date and time. I found a non-denominational wedding officiant. I decided on an outdoor location in a nice park - which doesn't require a reservation or a fee. I called the boy and read him some example wedding vows over the phone and we picked the one we liked best. Date/time/location information was distributed to our mothers. My mom offered to get me some flowers, and besides that I need to pick something to wear. All that's left is to get the license when the boy gets home, and we'll be all set! And we're doing everything for less that $150!

Now that everything is decided, I'm so freakin excited!!! Remember how I said I didn't want to shout it out to the world when we got engaged? Well now that all the details are straightened out and it's actually happening, I kinda do!

Well... I still don't want to tell anyone and everyone. Just the people I care about. Tomorrow I'm going to tell some of my close friends. I'll just let everyone else receive the trickle of gossip, however it ends up flowing.

I'm so happy. I always thought it was a lame cliche when people said your wedding day was supposed to be the happiest day of your life. But it might actually be true! :)