JUST MARRIED!

July 1st, 2011 was the best day of my life (so far)!

At approximately 6pm on that Friday I became Mrs. Kekoa Hudgens! Even now, 2 months later, it makes me smile when I say Mrs. Hudgens.

I'm not an avid blogger, but from time to time an important occasion, issue, or moment in time gives me cause to reflect or write. I can't have a blog sitting out here on the net without talking about my Wedding Day so…here goes.

Koa and I had talked about marrage since we first starting dating, not about when, how, or where we would get married, but about the fact that we both wanted to be married someday, and wanted to always make sure we were on the same page and heading in the same direction. The engagement talk came about very organically over a nice meal at the Palm restaurant in January with Koa saying to me over lobster mac-n-cheese, that he thought it was time. We decided to take my Mother's engagement ring stone, and my Grandma's wedding band stones, and have them custom designed into an engagement ring. We officially got engaged on Feb. 18th, 2011 our belated Valentine's Date night. I came home from work and knew Koa had picked up the ring, but thought he would probably propose later that night on our Dinner Cruise, but I came home from work, he was asleep in bed sick, I laid down beside him and he asked me in bed, sick. It was perfect!

We thought long and hard about eloping, and eventually decided we would have a small wedding in San Diego on our 3rd Anniversary, July 1st, the day we met in 2008.

The planning was fun, exciting, trying, exhausting, stressful, and foreign. We stepped outside the box and did things our way. We aren't a couple that really care for the spotlight, so we took most of the key spotlight elements out, and made it more about being together with our family and friends and having a celebration.

The week of the wedding family and friends started arriving, all the loose ends started to tie up, and all the anticipation moved to excitement.

July 1st, 2011 began with one of the best nights of sleep behind me. Koa and I chose not to spend the night before our wedding apart. We woke up, had breakfast in bed, went to set up the venue a bit, I went to hair/makeup, Koa napped, and then we came back together at home to get ready. We were alone in our wedding preparations and completely calm. Once the dress was on, and Koa was in his suit it became real. I did not have any crazy thoughts running through my head, I didn't have the dreaded cold feet, or butterflies in the tummy, it was complete calm. I knew that everything was right, and was just as it should be. For the first time in my life, my heart, body, and mind were in the same place and ready to walk into a new life chapter together.