Recently I’ve been thinking how being a bride is so very different from what I had in mind as a little girl. Back then, my thoughts did not go any further than a white dress, a veil, a big celebration and a husband (in rather random order ).

In the meantime I learnt that being a bride does not start on your wedding day but encompasses the whole time between engagement and the big day. And so it’s not surprising that for a little girl’s imagination it just seems like something is wrong, when being a bride also includes painting walls, packing boxes and moving furniture around. Good thing the white dress doesn’t have to put up with all of this…

A perfect example of the many facettes of being a bride was how we spent last Saturday: We started off by moving things around a little more in order to make room for my stuff to arrive soon. That was followed by an extended sorting of a drawer full of international coins, which Holger had collected over the years and while doing that, I just couldn’t quite get rid of the image of Cinderella . But it was worth the effort and helped us to a little unexpected cash. Part of the day was also for me to do small sowing preparations for slight adjustments on my wedding dress; but that was not yet the end of our productivity. The groom launched into a major baking effort because I wanted a special expesive kind of wedding cake which we cannot afford. So he got what he needed and did a test run for my dream cake. By now I know that this is no unusual way for a man to show his love, so I gladly joined him by doing the dishes and thereby keeping the chaos in the kitchen under control.

This is by no means the kind of Saturday I enjoy the most. After all, the weather was quite nice for a long spring walk, at least for someone trying to escape such work… But I was very much aware of the fact that each little thing brought me one step closer to the day when I will actually get to wear the pretty wedding dress with veil and reception and everything; but most of all a wonderful husband. So I have to say, I do enjoy being a bride