H: The Meaning of Stress, or, Why I Love Jessica Moores and Stout Photography.

I've spoken about our photographer Jessica repeatedly and repeatedly touted her awesomeness. Well, Jessica is the gift that keeps on giving.

I've been really, really stressed out the past couple of days and not because of the wedding, but because of the house. We're moving tomorrow, and there are still boxes to pack, and STILL a loan to secure. Luckily the seller of our house is a total sweetheart and letting us rent the place until such time as the loan goes through once and for all or we find another lender.
That coupled with the fact that I've had a toothache the past four days or so means that it's been a rough week and unfortunately wedding planning has taken a backseat at a time that it shouldn't and I really don't want it to. Now that things have calmed down I find myself needing to re-examine what's left to do, but my heart wasn't as in it as I wanted it to be since I'm too worried.
Then on a whim I decided to re-visit Jessica's blog, and I was blissfully reminded of why I'm doing this, and how wonderful it's going to be. Shots like these, and these. Look at the joy. The love. The sheer excitement of a family coming together to create something larger and more full of love, and finally the relief of knowing that - for better or worse - these two people have knitted and united themselves together. It's wonderful and it's FUN. Somewhere along the line of stress and uncertainty about what was going on, I'd forgotten that.
I'm very happy, and very grateful, to be reminded.