It’s been less than a year since our wedding, and I’ve managed to finally complete our wedding scrapbook. It has all three days of our events, plus some of the planning documents (tasting notes, wedding day schedule) for it. It’s over 62 12×12-inch pages of memories. It’s crazy to think that we spent about 14 months planning this event that lasted three days and is now summarized into 62 pages.

I speak with a lot of people — friends, friends of friends, colleagues, and see so much negative wedding and wedding planning commentary. There’s always going to be a lot of stress in planning a large event with a group of people that is more than a handful, but when I flip through these pages and relive those three days in March, all I can think about is how worth it it was to have spent all that time and energy planning to be surrounded by the people we love most in life. It’s even more exciting when your friends and family still talk about it and marvel over how much fun it was, how delicious the food was, and how gorgeous my dress looked. It’s cliche, but I haven’t had a single regret about any of it, not even the money spent. This scrapbook is a reminder of a truly happy period, and is a seg way into the next happy and hopeful period of our life together.