2020 was, in short, a shitshow. Am I right? However, at least for me personally, it wasn’t all bad. In fact, in reviewing my year through my One Second a Day video from 2020, I have to acknowledge that my 2020 was pretty dang great. I coached my first winter guard season for Parrish Community High, we went to Nashville, I got engaged, Jared and I bought a house, I spent a summer in the Keys with my parents and our dogs, I got my first teaching job with the absolute best group of kids, we went to almost every home Gator game, I reached the 250 club in Pure Barre, I became TikTok famous (follow me @sammyraejohnson), and I got to do all the wedding festivities a bride not in the middle of a pandemic would get to do surrounded by people who love me. Heck, I even got to go to Disney a few times!
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2 Months ’til the Wedding
ONE MONTH UNTIL THE WEDDING!! How is that even real?! This past month was full of fun wedding planning that got derailed a bit by 2 positive COVID cases in our household. That’s right – Jared and I both tested positive the week before Thanksgiving. While this made me have to cancel some important meetings (touring the venue again with the wedding planner and meeting with the photographer), it also gave me lots of free time to get other wedding items checked off my to-do list. So here’s what I’ve been up to the last month!
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The change from 5 months until the wedding to 4 months until the wedding made everything seem so much more real! It seemed like the wedding was suddenly so much closer! If you haven’t already, make sure you check out my wedding planning posts from every other month of our engagement so far.
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August was a sweet month of wedding planning! Read on to see what planning we did with 5 months until the wedding. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out my posts on the pre-planning I did before we were engaged, and the planning we did 9 months, 8 months, 7 months, and 6 months before the wedding. Enjoy!
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This month was pretty light on planning since a) I have most of the big stuff done and b) we went to the Keys mid-June for a monthlong vacation. Before we left, here is the wedding planning I got done with 7 months to go before the wedding!
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