A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes...

Well, if that's the case I'm going to have to say no thank you Cinderella, cause if last night's dream were to come true then I'm just a glutton for punishment.

It was the wedding day. We were having the ceremony outdoors at a farm. When my family and friends and I got to the location, there was a birthday party going on inside the building we were to get ready in, but they promised they'd be out by a certain time. I didn't have my hair fixed, so I borrowed a curling iron from one of the other girls. The plan was to start an hour before kick off. Oh, how miserably we failed.

With half an hour to go before the ceremony, things were still coming up that had made it impossible for me to get ready yet. I was getting ready to throw some curls into my hair when all of a sudden, one of Flo's friends convinces us we need to go grab something to eat. Suddenly it's 8:00 (yep, apparently the wedding was supposed to be at 8, and of course it was still bright and sunny in my dream), and I realize that we're late. The girl tells me it's not a big deal because it's my wedding and who cares about the guests and I yell at her "I do!" So we high tail it back to the venue.

At this point, we're thirty minutes late, I'm trying to decide whether we should go on with it or just reschedule (if only it were that easy, right?), when I realize a few other things. We don't have flowers.  No one set up the tables for the reception. I haven't seen (nor remember making) the first cake to be served and where was my groom?  The photographer kept asking when he could come in to take the getting ready shots and there was honestly nothing to shoot at that point except chaos.

Chalk it up to another wedding nightmare. Oh, and did I mention that it was one of those annoying continuing dreams? The kind that after you wake up and go back to sleep, you dream a continuation of where you ended the first time? Both weird and not quality sleep friendly, lol.

Has anyone else had odd wedding related dreams?

Let the Dreams Begin

I am a vivid dreamer. Most of the time my dreams are in color, are in depth and I can recount most of one the next morning when I wake up. For that matter, sometimes I end up doing silly things in my sleep (it's just gotten worse with age). It seems that my triggers for more intense dreams are running on empty, lots going on at work and/or stressful situations in every day life. Like wedding planning.

It came as a surprise to me that my first wedding related "nightmares" started happening 10 months before the big day. I've read the stories of all the horrific happenings in dreams recounted by numerous brides, but they always seemed to be a little closer to the wire than what I was at that point.

My first dream occurred while I was searching for my wedding dress. It was a pretty stressful month for me trying to find a dress (that's a story for another time though) and I remember having dreams several nights in a row involving the wedding. One in which I realized about an hour before the ceremony that we hadn't had a rehearsal the night before so no one knew what they were supposed to do. I borrowed a long jacket from one of the bridesmaids to cover up my dress in order to go upstairs and hunt down the rest of the wedding party to pass along instructions. Turns out I had no idea who the groomsmen were and I never did make it back downstairs to my girls. In the second dream, it hit me that it was the night before the wedding and we had forgotten to send out invitations. I was making lists of the guests for family members to call the next day (as it was already almost midnight) to beg people to ditch already made plans and show up. Leave it to me.

The second wave of dreams started when we were in the multiple week hunt for bridesmaid dresses. If nothing else, my dreams don't make me a selfish bride, since I was just as concerned for the girls as I was for myself. So funny the things that trigger our imagination and subconscious.

Anyone else have wedding nightmares during the planning process?