Surprise Wedding Part 1 (Through my eyes)

Life is full of surprises but Dec. 5th was one for the books! Matt, Nina's fiance', called me on Monday, Oct. 26th to say he wanted to surprise Nina with a wedding. My initial reaction to seeing Matt's number come up on my phone was frightening at first, as we never talk on the phone. So imagine how happy I was to hear fun and exciting news verses something bad about Nina. Matt was feeling pretty good about himself because he'd just pulled off a surprise birthday party for Nina. A wedding on the other hand is much larger level surprise but I felt confident it could be done.

A Little History
Nina and Matt have been together for years and engaged for seven or eight months at this point. Initially the plan was to get married next February. She asked me to be her matron of honor. I was extremely sad when I had to call her and say I couldn't make it to her wedding because I was pregnant and would be due in February. Nothing was decided because Nina and Matt both deployed right after getting engaged. Over the time Nina was deployed, a lot of ideas were discussed but nothing ever set in stone.

Matt is also a twin, and so they didn't want a wedding without their twins being there. Carrie, Matt's twin, and myself made there wedding plans difficult.

Matt's first question to me was, can you fly here in December. I told him I had a doctors appt. that Wednesday and I would let him know right away. This was a long week for me because Matt was in training for a week and was unreachable to chat with. My doc said it was fine to fly. The final decision to go ahead with the wedding planning wasn't made until the week following. He had to talk to everyone to make sure all the immediate family could make the trip. As soon as I got the okay to take off work, I bought my plane ticket and started looking for a dress.