28 days

This week I made an amazing discovery.

A few weeks ago I made a hair appointment at Elon Salon in Broken Arrow to practice my hairstyle for the wedding. I made an appointment with Leslie, who is supposed to be good at styling and has agreed to come to my parent’s house the morning of the wedding to do the girl’s hair. I’ve never met Leslie before, but so far everyone I have met at Elon Salon is wonderful… but not as wonderful as one of them. For the past few years I have been going to a girl named Heather at Elon Salon. She is amazing at cutting my hair, and every time I leave I immediately like it without having to go home and wash and style it myself. She is incredible. About a year ago she had twins and left Elon Salon. Ever since that day I have been searching and stressing about finding a hair person I like as much as her. So, this week I called Elon Salon to change the date of my appointment with Leslie, but when I called I was drawing a blank and I couldn’t remember her name. I told the girl who answered the phone that I needed to reschedule an appointment but I couldn’t remember who the appointment was with, but if she named the person I was sure I would remember.

“Oh ok, we have Christy, Rebecca, Heather, Leslie…”
“Wait, Heather?” I interrupted, “Is that the same Heather that used to work there?”
The girl on the other end sounded a little confused, “Uh, yeah. She was just on maternity leave.”

I was so excited. When I had talked to Heather she had made it sound like she wouldn’t be returning, but apparently she changed her mind. I immediately made an appointment to get my hair cut with her, but I kept the appointment with Leslie for the styling. I was just thrilled that my hair person was back! There is a sense of peace that a girl has when she knows she has a good hair person, and living without that peace for the last year was tough, but now the peace is back and that feeling has come to an end.

There is less than one month until I’m Mrs. Smith and I am so excited. My dress is in it’s final alteration stages, the bridesmaid dresses are in, this week my Bible Study group is going to make some decorations, the rehearsal dinner restaurant is reserved, and the songs are being chosen for various aspects of the day. The toughest obstacle right now is my wedding ring. I haven’t been able to find anything that fits with my engagement ring. I have heard jewelers come up with many different solutions, but none of them seem right. Some say it is meant to be worn alone, some say I should get a band that is curved so it fits better, some say I should get one custom made, and some say I should wear it on my right hand with a different wedding band on my left. None of those really seem that great. I guess I’ll figure something out.

Other than that I’m completely confident that everything will pull together and be great.