~ 1/2 way to Stewart ~

Right now at this exact moment in 3 weeks we will be in the ballroom at the Grand Wailea as husband and wife dancing and celebrating with all of you! 20 days and we will be married, it continues to hit me like a ton of bricks.

Today we had our marriage license appointment at 930am. We got up early and and started planning our day. We had to fill out paperwork and get a list together to go to town. We were heading to the mall to get thank you gifts for Trisha and the gang plus we had to go grab a few things at Ben Franklin and start our honeymoon shopping.

We got to Cynthia’s (the marriage license place) about 10 minutes early. She welcomed us in and started our paperwork. She went over a few things with us then started entering everything into the computer. She asked us our age and if this was our first marriage. She talked to me about what I would like to do with my last name and I told her it would be Stewart. (Stewart, Jennifer Stewart) We sat excited and anxious as she worked on the documents and told us so many crazy stories about couples that she has had come in, it made us laugh and cringe (people are so crazy). As we waited Colt teased me about all the things I would have to do to change my name after we got married. I laughed knowing that it really was going to be such a process. We were talking about all the paperwork and time it would take so it wasn’t until Cynthia loudly said “dammit” that we were brought back to reality. She told us that the website she needed to get on was undergoing updates and that since it was Saturday there wasn’t anyone there to assist her. She told us last time updates happened it took 24 hours for the program to come back up but it could also be a few hours. She told us we were lucky because we still had plenty of time to come back (the couple waiting behind us wasn’t as lucky as they were getting married the next day) I still will never understand how people just wait until the last second (I could never) regardless we didn’t feel very lucky we wanted our license.

We left feeling a little bummed but hopeful that she would call us in a few hours and if not we would have to go back next Saturday. We headed to town and did our errands. We stocked up on travel supplies for Thailand and looked for jars, frames and a few other last minute things that we still needed. After 2 plus hours we were exhausted, hungry and cranky so we decided to head back towards Kihei in hopes that Cynthia would call.

Since we had some time we went by pizza madness to meet with Kirk the owner and discuss our rehearsal and test out our slide show. Everything was good to go and Kirk couldn’t have been more accommodating. As we were leaving Colts phone rang and it was Cynthia telling him that all our paperwork was ready and that we just needed to come by and sign it, we were so relived and excited. Once we got there she went over all the logistics. We would have to sign now then Ron our minister would sign it on the day of our wedding and submit it online. Once that happened it was official and we could go on and print a temporary copy to start all the paperwork to get my name changed. We would get the actual license in about 4 months. We signed, shook her hand and thanked her, I was officially one signature away from being Jennifer Lee Stewart.

Tomorrow is another busy day but I’m mostly excited. We got another big “to do” checked off our list and we are looking better than ever, bring it on August 25th!

Getting everything ready to sign!