D.C.O.A.

“Ladies and gentlemen for the very first time, I would like to introduce to you Mr. & Mrs. Awesome, and their son, Totally!”  

D.C.O.A. stands for the Delaney Celebration of Awesomeness. It is just like it sounds. We are celebrating the awesomeness of the Delaney clan. Well, a friend of mine simply named it that because she was tired of me calling it “The wedding/vow renewal/big ass party.”

A little background on that:

Adam and I got engaged around fall 2009 and decided to have a wedding in November of 2010. In February of 2010 we saw how low home prices were going and decided we wanted to buy one for ourselves. At the time Adam was in the Army, and to have both of our names on the VA home loan we had to be married. Since we had already made plans for the wedding later that year we figured we would just go to the courthouse and get the paperwork done early. WELL, God hears your plans and laughs at them, so about two weeks later we found out that I was growing a baby in my belly. TWO WEEKS! It’s like the Universe was just WAITING for me to get married to make me pregnant. Anyways, because I would then be 7-8 months pregnant when we were supposed to have our wedding, we decided to wait and have a ceremony/celebration later.

And that’s now! Well, it’s in about 6 weeks. I will tell you though that planning an event will turn any completely normal person into an irrational one. I will be the first person to tell you that women are crazy. I do NOT understand how crazy women get about weddings and all of the ridiculous mundane details about them (like programs and napkins). That being said, I do not want to tell you how long I have poured over insignificant details. Open your eyes ladies, NO ONE is going to remember you had awesome menu cards and programs and that your seating cards were perfectly spaced. However, I understand that it is so easy to get bogged down in the details. I looked for about 3 weeks online for a flower to put in my hair. A FLOWER! Some people don’t have money for fresh groceries and here I am looking for the perfect shade of red for a rose.

Every time I feel myself slipping into the typical wedding-obsessed-woman I just try and remember the ONLY thing people will remember is that they had fun. So, don’t worry people, I plan on pumping you full of delicious food, plentiful adult beverages and providing you with a big dance floor to show us your stuff. In the meantime, I still do not fully comprehend that in 6 weeks our friends and family (some traveling great distances) are all gathering in one place to celebrate us. It is truly spectacular, and if there is one thing the human race does right, it’s believing in love.