My First Wedding Dream

I had my first dream about our wedding...and it was a doozy! Thought I would share.

It was the day before my wedding. We arrived at my home town of Little Valley, NY only to discover that my family had taken over my wedding and decided to not only have it in the lawn of the house I grew up in, but plan all of the food for the reception and entire ceremony.

If you’ve ever seen the TV show on the BBC America channel, Don’t Tell The Bride, we watched that before going to bed last night, so I think that’s where some of this came from.

I really didn’t want to have my wedding in the lawn of our old house, but my family had gone to the trouble of setting up chairs and an area under an awning where the ceremony would take place. I found out the wedding would be in the late afternoon at least. LOL I thought I would be freezing because my dress was for our late June wedding and I guess it was a different time of year for this wedding in my dreams. It seemed nice out. LOL

As I walked around town that day, I soon discovered the entire town had been invited. Good Lord….that’s more than the 15-20 people I was expecting at the ski chalet, where we obviously WEREN’T getting married now. I was a little ticked off about that, but didn’t want to disappoint my family.

The rest of that day was spent trying to make people realize that I didn’t what our wedding photos taken of us at the house. That crappy old garage was still standing by some miracle and I didn’t want that in our wedding photos. And on the other side, our lovely neighbors had thrown and old white toilet in the shrubs between the houses and I didn’t want THAT in my wedding photos either. Everyone, including Pete Nutile, the photographer from Johnny’s, said to not worry about it. Hmmm…..why was Pete there??? Hmmmm….maybe they hired him to take our wedding photos. Cool!

Then on to the reception hall, which was the Congregational Church in LV. When Dave and I arrived the night before, the whole place was full of people from the town, many of whom I don’t know anymore, but they were getting the HUGE place prepared for our wedding. It wasn’t exactly a church either…it was more like a lodge.

I was obsessed with making people understand I didn’t want our wedding photos shot at the house. I was able to get a woman try to come up with an idea and she thought they could take the photos here at the church, but the spot she chose was pretty small. I wasn’t too happy, but I just had to deal with it.

I was venting to my sister Dori, who completely simpathized and said “Let’s see if Dad has any ideas”. Just as she said that, my father (who passed away in 1994) came up to me looking healthy as ever and said ‘First of all, I’ll be marrying you…..”, at that statement, I threw my arms around him and kissed him. I couldn’t wait to tell Dave that my father would be marrying us. Dad said he’s get it all straightened out for me. I knew he would. I then asked him if he knew if Kim (Dave’s niece, who passed away 7 months ago) and Nancy (Dave’s sister) would be coming. He said he could only do so much and that Nancy didn’t make the trip. Kim, I later discovered, was at my Mom house waiting to go through wedding stuff with me, which we did until all hours of the morning. I was going to show her my wedding binder, but figured, why bother…..my family has taken over, so I don’t even know if the colors I wanted will be used. LOL So we just drank some wine and laughed.

Wow!! What an amazing dream. To not only have Kim there sharing this with me, but that my Dad was so vividly THERE in a green shirt and his thick glasses and that he was going to marry us. Even though that won’t happen, I had such a smile on my face when I woke up. Although not having control of my own wedding scared me, the other aspects of this dream were wonderful and not scary in the least.

Great News!

Dave and I were both thrilled to hear that his sister Nancy was very interested in going to NY for our wedding. With everything she's been through since January, we were both prepared for her not to be going if Kim couldn't be here to join her, but she seemed very excited about going and will be traveling with her best friend Nancy.

I'm very excited they're going to make the trip and happy that Dave will have family there for him as well. I want Nancy to meet my family and for them to meet her.