"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."

And starting over is scarier than anything; probably because one way or another, you paid the price for jumping the gun a bit.

As it stands now S and I are starting over in a lot of ways; we are reaffirming things in our relationship, and working through trials that come with being young and working towards a marriage. Most of all, however, we are facing the biggest challenge yet- starting over our entire wedding planning process.

With that said, its Do Over time, ladies and gents. Lets Recap, shall we?

 These last few months for S and I have ushered in some intense growing pains, and realizations. 

We are stronger than ever, but we are a lot more humbled I think than we started out. 

Mostly because the realization that we don't know jack about shit has pretty much hit us.

When we first started talking about marriage, we always talked about what the wedding would not be, rather than what we wanted it to be; it would not be all about the pomp and the glam, it would not be a three ring circus with family input, and it would not be called by anyone but us. Unfortunately, we thought that would narrow what we did want down a lot...and here we are and I for one want to change every idea I ever had about the wedding.

This is what I originally came up with as an inspiration board (for newcomers, that's a picture collage of the key ideas or feeling or theme behind a wedding).

I called it french empire modern (or something to that effect) ({Personal Pictures- Personal usage only)