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Preparing for Your Wedding Day Shouldn't be Just About the Wedding Dress

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If you're a female, there's a good chance you have dreamed about your wedding day. There's also a good chance if someone were to look at your Pinterest, they may find a "Wedding" board somewhere among your ideas for new recipes and some quotes you really like.

I've dreamed about my wedding day since I was little. Imagining the small details of getting ready that day, putting on the dress I've spent countless hours searching for, the joy of seeing my husband-to-be as I walk down the aisle towards him, cutting our wedding cake together, and all the family and friends I will be surrounded with and supported by on one of the most important days of my life.

Little girls don't grow up thinking about the reality that hits once you come home from the honeymoon and start your life together as husband and wife.

I always imagine the good parts of my future, never the bad. I always think about coming home to my husband at the end of a long day. I think about waking up scared from a nightmare and seeing my best friend sleeping next to me.

When it comes to dreaming about my wedding day, I've never really gone past that. I don't really think about coming home every day from work and seeing each other after a long day, and feeling frustrated that no one has taken the dog out all day. I don't think about the arguments of who should make dinner after coming home exhausted from work, or who should wash the dishes after dinner that night.

Sometimes I wonder why I don't think about the reality of my future more. I don't want to become anxious from worrying about what lies ahead. However, I need to plan for the future and plan to be ready for the next day, even if I don't know what lies ahead.

Knowing I will be someone's wife someday, I want to know how to love my future husband in the best way possible. I want to know how to care for him and be the wife that he needs and that God intends for me to be.

I've learned that I can't just pray for the perfect future husband, but that I need to pray that I become the wife my future husband needs me to be for him. Every day I pray that God will prepare me more and more to become the wife that I need to be for my future husband. I pray that my future husband will become stronger in his faith daily and that he will become the husband and man of God that I need someday.

I want to stop focusing on the image of the white dress and start to focus on the image of God and how I can become more like him every day, and slowly prepare myself to become the woman of God and the wife I will be for my future husband someday.

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