I Made my Wedding Dress in 3 Weeks & Nearly Died (the almost dying was unrelated though)

Micarah Tewers designs and sews her wedding dress in 3 weeks, blending historical, fantasy, and personal inspirations while overcoming health challenges.

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Key Takeaways

Creating a custom wedding dress is a complex, emotional, and physically demanding process.
Inspiration can come from diverse sources including history, fantasy, and personal memories.
Community and social media support can be valuable in creative decision-making.
Health challenges can impact creative projects but perseverance is key.
Personal touches and storytelling make a wedding dress uniquely meaningful.

What the video covers

Micarah Tewers shares her decades-long passion for sketching and planning her wedding dress.
She incorporates elements inspired by historical fashion, fantasy, movie costumes, and personal themes like birds and turtles.
Micarah experiments with different dress designs and seeks social media advice to narrow down her choices.
She buys out her town’s bridal fabric supply to ensure she has enough materials for her project.
The dress design is inspired by Christine Daae’s masquerade dress with bird-themed details and a dramatic bustle.
Micarah discusses the physical challenges she faces while sewing, including fainting episodes.
She shares personal anecdotes involving her fiancé Dan and meaningful fabric choices like moiré.
The video covers her bachelorette trip, dress construction progress, and choreography preparations.
Micarah experiences a medical emergency just before the wedding but recovers to complete her dress.
The video concludes with her wedding day preparations and celebration as a newlywed.

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How long did Micarah take to make her wedding dress?

Micarah made her wedding dress in about three weeks, starting roughly a month and a half before her wedding.

What inspired the design of the wedding dress?

The dress was inspired by historical fashion eras like Victorian and Renaissance, fantasy elements from her fiancé's interests, movie costumes, and a bird theme related to their wedding.

Did Micarah face any challenges while making the dress?

Yes, she experienced physical challenges including fainting and convulsions while sewing, but she persevered to complete the dress.

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There's no other project that I've spent this long planning. There is no other project that I have made so many sketches for. I mean, we're talking decades' worth of sketches. And yet, here we are, a month and a half away from the wedding with no clear idea of what we're doing. Let me first explain to you all of the elements that I would like to include.

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First, my future papers. From the time Courtney and I were little girls, we would sit by the fireplace and plan our futures every year. We did this through our teens, early 20s. And every year, I designed my future husband, my future family, and my future wedding dress.

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Next, we have my love for historical fashion. So, let's get some historical fashion inspo.

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Okay, that was way too inspirational. Now, I am miserable. Because I love the Victorian era. From the bootylicious bustles to the way they use flowers to decorate themselves. But, I'm equally obsessed with the Renaissance and the Elizabethan and the Hugo Rococo. Another

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thing I love is Dan. I'd like him to be included somehow. He's a fantasy artist, so maybe incorporating some fantasy elements. His favorite musical is Phantom of the Opera, which I love the costumes of. Speaking of movie

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costumes. Costumes are so important because think about this. If there were no costumes, everybody in shows would be naked. Imagine you're watching Little House on the Prairie with your family, but no clothes. Oh, it's not a movie. Oh.

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I am obsessed with movie costumes. I'm very judgy about them, but in a way that excites me. The only time I can feel anger. The only thing better than when a movie costume makes me mad is when it makes me happy. And there are

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some movie costumes that make every joy particle within my bloodstream explode with joy. I would show up in this, but my sister already did that. I would show up in this, but Dan would flee. And this is still a strong contender, which leads

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me to my next thing that I have to incorporate, Barbie. I've always been obsessed with Barbie. She must be involved. And while I've never been married before, I have made three wedding dresses in the past. This Ariana Grande one and this adult diaper one.

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The only thing in common that I like about these is the church in the background. So, we booked it. And then, most recently, this Frankenstein bride dress, which I am obsessed with. The silhouette to me is perfect, but I'm

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like already getting bullied by the online basque waist haters. And finally, birds. I've always had chickens, birds, and the theme of our wedding is birds and turtles. So, basically, I just explained all of that to social media, and I'm asking for help narrowing down

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my decisions. Now, I did try on wedding dresses in an effort to harvest creative inspiration, but can I just say trying on an evening gown that you didn't custom make for yourself is a bizarre experience? Like why are there gaps? Why doesn't this hug

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every one of my arbitrary contours perfectly? And no matter how I turned, I felt like I couldn't get a good enough look at all the angles. So, I decided to start trying them on my niece Ella, which helped me get a better look, but I

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needed comparison. So, I called in stunt bride number two, aka my sister. And from this I gleaned that I definitely wanted thicker straps. So, I finally tried one on Ruthie that I really liked the neckline of. And before I knew it,

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just about everybody but me was wearing a wedding dress. And now we're 1 month away from the wedding.

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Reached out to social media for help and got a surprising amount of advice. And now I have it boiled down to four distinctly different designs. Do I have time to make four different designs?

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Maybe. But do I have enough fabric to make four designs? Remember, you only have a month, so I don't have time to order things online and Joey and Fabrics doesn't exist anymore.

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Or does it? I should probably get a basket. Now, I'll just carry. On second thought, maybe I need a cart.

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Why yes, yes I did buy out my town's entire section of bridal fabric when they closed.

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Now, let's get this cut. Oh, what's that? I don't have to take a ticket because I'm the one cutting it.

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Cool. Let's start in on my ceremony dress. I wasn't totally sold on the front of it, but baby the caboose is the star of this show. My aim was to make a more exaggerated version of Christine Daae's masquerade dress.

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I started cutting the front of the skirt to look like my Frankenstein bride dress, but I was worried it might not be bird-centric enough. When I realized this skirt would have homages to birds in it whether I intended them or not, I

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cut everything out with pinking shears because after performing an autopsy on my grandma's wedding dress, I noticed all the seams were finished by pinking.

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And they've held up without fraying for over 70 years. That's even longer than Grey's Anatomy has been on the air, which doesn't feel true. As another tribute to birds, I decided to just kind of wing the front of the skirt. When it

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came to the bustled back, I was a scosh trepidatious. Like, how long do I cut it?

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How many inches? So, I reached out to the genius Bella Mae Designs who has made an impeccable Christine costume.

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Because I figured if she could tell me how long she cut her back, I'd have some point of reference from which to stretch and formulate my hopefully obnoxious train. And listen, Bella got back with me. And not only did she send me

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the magic number, she sent an image of the pattern. And even though I lacked the capability to print it, having a visual was invaluable, which I think means the same thing as valuable, but better. And now I can pay

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forward that gift and tell all of you exactly how many inches to make the long trained version of this.

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Listen, I really meant to write it down somewhere. Definitely longer than a kayak. We're going to sew together more skirt petals today, but we're taking it in doses. So, if you see me crying, just pretend I'm not crying. I'm not even sad

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or anything. It's just a big skirt like this has to be done on the floor. So, it's a lot of up and down and up and down, which means I'm passing out a couple times a day. And when I pass out

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a lot, I just start crying. No, I'm not sad. You have no idea over the past like 8 years how many seizures I've had to edit out of sewing videos. I don't even know if seizure's the right

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word. Pass out and have convulsions. It's just a lot, but there's no way around it.

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Speaking of blacking out, that coming weekend was my bachelorette trip, and it was going to be one wild humdinger of a shindig. Kidding, of course. It was actually frightfully wholesome and about as rowdy as a nursing home at naptime.

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Excuse me, I did not know that was happening. Anyway, it was a mostly very wholesome time, and we learned the hoedown throwdown for my wedding, which became our collective personality from that day forward. Upon returning home, it was time to gather stitch the

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gargantuan skirt. I sewed across the whole top of the net layer and then the moire layer.

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By the way, did I tell you why I chose the fabric moire? Aside from having a bunch left over from my curtains and finding a literal whole roll at Goodwill, one time Dan and I were at this aquarium.

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That's not Dan and I, that's a couple I filmed with the intention of portraying as Dan and I. Anyway, we're at this aquarium and I stood up too fast in a penguin viewing portal. I hit my head so hard

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that I thought it was going to explode like a grape, like an exploding grape. Dan ushered me to a chair near some moire eels, and then he said, "What if those are actually just moire eel puppets?" And I broke out

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sobbing. And it became one of our most treasured memories of February 2025. From that moment on, I knew I'd use moire as my wedding dress fabric.

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You just have to be there. Listen, I realize this video makes it look like I cry a lot, but I really

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You just have to be there. Listen, I realize this video makes it look like I cry a lot, but I really don't. Usually, I have eyeballs of steel. Like, I didn't even cry when I watched The Expendables or Zoolander for

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that matter. But, I suppose marriage brings out the sentimentality in all of us. Well, marriage and aquarium-acquired head injuries and passing out and videos of little kids landing kickflips. And if I'm being honest, I just like this one

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part of Zoolander and the end [music] of The Expendables. Who is this Abby? It's my heavy-duty needle. Heavy-duty needle.

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As my sewing machine battled with the waistband, I began battling hunger. But, did I have time to eat? Yes, but only because Factor makes meals unconscionably quick. I mean, I had to switch to slow mo just to film the prep.

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But, first the grocery shopping, aka knifing a box that shows up at your door. I used this as an opportunity to practice cake cutting. I wanted to be the best cake cutter this county has ever seen. [music] Three ice packs. I'm saving this for

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whoever Courtney can cuss at during bouquet toss. While I do occasionally enjoy cooking with HelloFresh, I now own Factor. In this season of life, I only consume things that can be made in two minute increments, [music] affording me just

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enough time to briefly luxuriate, frantically pour myself a liquid drink, and complete one mouse-length stitch before the proverbial food baby is ready to be spanked, named, and introduced to the world. You're going to eat so good even on your busiest days with these

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fresh, never frozen meals. And there's no cleanup. Just recycle and move on with your life. Maybe keep your fork. Of course, you can re-home it onto a plate if you'd [music] like. Dan was really pleased with his plating on this one.

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only. Varies by plan. One free breakfast item per box for 1 year while subscription active. That's code MAKARA FB50 at factor75.com. With the skirt a hair's breadth away from being finished, I was left to grapple with the important

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question of how would I bustle this? But more importantly, what are my bridesmaids going to [music] wear?

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to find something that felt historical. This is the best I could do, and it was okay. I pretend like it a lot, actually.

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But my Sarah Sanderson costume was off to the side, and I jokingly said, "Ruth, why don't you try that on [music] over it?" And to my utter dismay, it was stunning, meaning I had to make one of these for everybody, and in a variety of

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colors. But luckily for us, I've hoarded a lot of dye and a lot of thrifted curtains.

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This one was a green shower curtain. Don't ask me how I pulled that off.

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of these corsets and their accessories required roughly 1 week of meticulous craftsmanship, but ultimately, I can [music] consider the transformation to have justified the investment. But how did the bridesmaids themselves feel in these outfits? There's really no way to know.

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I feel so pretty. Then there was the small [music] matter of making the flower girls look like Renaissance tooth fairies. There were three of them, and then there was also a ring bearer.

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But I am just not good at tailoring. I prefer to leave that to Travis Kelsey, you know what I mean?

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And my sister-in-law, Adrienne, who tailored a little ring bearer suit, and just [music] wait till you see it. He looked Okay, fine, I'll show you.

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Oh my gosh. So in the end, we had three curtains, two tablecloths, two bed sheets, three upholstery scraps, and one shower curtain.

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Bringing the grand total to 11 beautiful upcycled pieces of trash that will be coming down the aisle.

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, cats and dogs, it's time to put on our bustling headbands and figure this little booger out. Now, I've made one bustle dress before, but surprise, surprise, my tutorial on that was lacking. So in sticking with that theme,

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doodly doo, spin some stuff. Okay, take a heavy-duty thread, and you're going to sew a gather stitch along this big rear end smiley. Then reinforce those stitches with strips of fabric as long as an alley cat. Make sure to backstitch every few inches just

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to make it look like you're doing more than you actually are. Starting out, my U shapes were about one small mouse width apart.

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But after connecting them with several traffic cone lengths of ribbon, they became, naturally, a skateboard's length apart. Now, don't be fooled by the speed [music] of them time lapses. This dang bustle took me 3 days, and I wasn't even

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happy with the result at the end of those 3 days. If you have faith, I'll get it done tomorrow, psych.

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Okay. With 20 days left till the wedding, I needed to fix my dissatisfaction. So I mocked up some uglier versions of the bustle, and then returned it to my original design, and I was much more pleased with it.

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It's time going this monstrosity, but I don't want to sacrifice any length. Perfect world, I'd sew grosgrain ribbon to the outside.

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Okay, so I know the other day I said grosgrain and Courtney laughed and she's like, "It's like Rogaine, but ribbon." Yes, it is.

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Anyway, but I don't have enough of this. And the Barbie car is not working. And my fiance's at work. And my whole family's in New York watching my brother sing at Madison Square Gardens.

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Very proud of him, by the way. I wish I could just make this piece long enough. I wish I had grosgrain grosgrain grosgrain grosgrain You know what I was trying to say.

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So I opted for horsehair braid, first making a mesh to get this shot. And then you would not believe how long it took me to attach this to the whole circumference of the skirt. How many Lifetime movies I watched in that time.

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How many babysitters I saw turn deadly. How many jilted wives I watched take sweet sweet revenge before ultimately realizing I hate it and I think we have to redo it. It was wrong decision.

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So Gary and I spent an hour seam ripping the horsehair out, by which point Dan was off work and able to get me my ribbon. Then I repeated the whole process while watching a mother hunt down her daughter's cyberbully, only to

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find out that the cyberbully was in fact the mother. At this point the train looked perfect, but you know what they say, Rome wasn't built on a popsicle stick. Achieving such a robust silhouette required fabricating a lot of

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deceitful underlayers. Like so bygone era BBL, booty birdcage, the Frankenstein hoop skirt, and the pickleball court-length crinoline, which Valerie graciously pinned for me because she's short, so the floor is local to her. All of which served to create this

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empress CC-esque shape. Now I fear we need to make a top. While I didn't have the clearest direction for the top, I had this vision of my midriff and most of my chest being covered in fabric.

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So I used that as my launch point. I originally planned to sport on the shoulder strap, but my friend B showed up while I was trying it on and she saw it like this and said, "Ooh." So that

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decided that. I feel that. There's no going back after I do this. There's no going forward [music] if I don't do this.

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Oh, that's good. So much to put that in a song. [music] Then arose the single most harrowing experience of my life, choosing between basque waist and drop waist.

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I could not be more torn between the drop waist and the basque waist. Instagram voted for basque.

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Facebook voted for drop. TikTok is inconclusive. So here's my strategy. I thought to myself, "Who do you admire from a fashion perspective?" Schiaparelli Rome.

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Who makes Schiaparelli Rome's clothes? Gunnar Deatherage makes some of Schiaparelli Rome's clothes. So I DM'd Gunnar Not only did he respond, but he responded decisively. So I left it as a drop waist trimming just enough away from the back to accommodate my puffy

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caboose. Then it began to dawn on me just how obvious the drop waist should have been. Like I really need to visually elongate my torso because on the Kibbe body scale I am a type Jiminy.

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I am all limbs. In fact, I'm the tallest of all my friends standing up, but if we're sitting down in identical chairs, I'm suddenly one of the shortest of all my friends. Who's taller now?

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Now I was determined to make this little baby right here the smoothest, most well-fitting bodice of my entire sewing career. So I asked for advice on adding a batting layer from Frida Leopold, quite possibly this galaxy's leading expert in smooth bodices. Thank you so

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much. I hope I pronounced your name correctly. If not, you can call me Maraca anytime you want. I cannot tell you how pleased I was with the fit of this corset. I mean, wild horses couldn't I was so happy with it and I told myself

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so long as I don't lose more than a couple pounds within the next 10 days, I am golden, which easy slam dunk, right?

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Because when have I ever in my life lost more than a couple pounds in 10 days? Do you smell that? The sense of foreboding?

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After altering my beautiful mother's ceremony dress, I started adorning my bodice with flowers. I was so happy with how it was coming together, but in the back of my mind, something was making me a little sad. The church needed a list

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of family members to reserve seats for and asked if we had any grandparents. Neither of us do anymore, but it prompted me to watch this video taken a few days before my grandma passed.

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Morgan, take me up. Why? I'm going to have to stay here a little longer.

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Why? Cuz you're here. Which made me miss her terribly and prompted me to try on her wedding dress, which I haven't worn since I was 13 and she was there to button it up for me.

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And you know, sometimes the internet is not so bad cuz someone had the idea that I should take one of her buttons and sew it onto my dress and I loved that. And I wore one of her other dresses to my

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wedding shower bridal game lunch, where I laid out a box of scraps from the dress I had almost finished and made all of my guests design Barbie brides. A game that I planned in my future papers since I was like 12. It was a blast. We

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threw down. I posted a little footage of the party online and got some very helpful Now, here's when my priorities became a little less focused. I started making a Swan Lake after-party dress. I was a third of the way finished with that at 8

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days out from the wedding, when I strongly considered finishing my ceremony dress. But, we needed the floor space to practice our father-daughter hoverboard dance. So, I set it to the wayside for just a little while longer.

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At this point, my mind was exploding with ideas. I have no recollection of making this mock-up, but like hips, camera rolls don't lie. What I do recollect is glancing again at my childhood sketches and becoming hopelessly besotted with this one. So, I

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decided that day, 7 days before the wedding, I would make a Rapunzel-Lucretia-Ever-After-Mirror-Mirror Amalgamation. I would do it all with thrifted materials. I would spend no more than $17, and no one was going to stop me. But, boy did they want to. Not

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really, they just wanted me to finish my ceremony dress. The people were stressed. In the midst of all this sewing, I was also making a reel or short or TikTok almost every night to post the next day. I felt phenomenal. I

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had hit peak sewer's high. And aside from some pretty localized pain I felt in my stomach after eating, I was feeling physically the best I felt in years. I could have done anything. you, I could have run a marathon. I could

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have told you how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. If a tree fell in the forest that week and no one was around to hear it, I would have heard it. Though, there was the small

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side note of my eyesight rapidly deteriorating. I would later learn that your eyesight is correlated to your gut, and my gut was on the precipice of utter annihilation. At the time though, I didn't think much of it. I just assumed

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my LASIK had worn off. So, I made a quick trip to the eye doctor, got a prescription, and got back to creating.

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At this point, the gown proved exceptionally gratifying to [music] my aesthetic sensibilities, but my hunky monkey mentioned he likes evil queen collars. And I practically salivated at an excuse to make an Elizabethan ruff.

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Asked him to help me make the base for it. With my almost finished ceremony dress hidden from view, I decided the other dresses didn't have to be a total surprise. Because in a shocking turn of events, he didn't enjoy not seeing me

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for a whole month, or being blocked from my social media. I tend to get it in my head that every boyfriend-fiancé-husband's love language is space and distance, and I don't know why I'm so consistently surprised to be reminded that Dan wants to be around me.

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He wants to see me and talk to me and tell me about his day and eat meals with me. And ironically, as I'm telling you this, I just canceled dinner with him 30 minutes ago because I said I needed to

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edit instead. So, um I'm going to hop off here real quick and go see my husband. I'm back. He made me spaghetti.

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He's the best. I'm so lucky. Now, at this point, we were a few days out from the wedding. I hadn't fully finished my ceremony dress. I hadn't finished this dress yet. I had barely started my swan-like after-party dress. And

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unbeknownst to myself at that time, I was going to make a whole other dress for my rehearsal dinner. Sounds like the perfect recipe for stress, but fortunately for me, I've watched every recipe I've ever tried, so I wasn't

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stressed. This is quite literally my favorite thing I've ever made. I get to wear this.

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So, this is what I'm going to be wearing for the grande entrance, as well as the cake cutting.

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I was really into practicing cake cutting. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest When it's time for our first dance, I want to look a little less evil queen, a little more precious princess.

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Then tell her to say humble and mobile. You know, even though I had planned to get married way younger, I'm glad I held out until my sewing skills reached this level.

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Then the fates having toyed with us long enough, finally permitted the completion of my ceremony dress.

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But fates being my lack of focus. So, there was this lovely dusty floral centerpiece that adorned our family table on and off for years. It's seen me eat many of my favorite and least favorite meals. It watched me grow up.

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So, I figured it wouldn't mind if I dismantled it to give it a front row seat to the most important day of my life.

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But its sacrifice, while noble, was not quite sufficient. So, I supplemented with craft store flowers that I dyed to match to fill in the gap.

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While my family hasn't had dinner together around that table in over 20 years, I really liked the idea of keeping that part of my life close to me.

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Again, I realize I'm failing at convincing you that I am not a sentimental emotional person.

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This is a real tear. I don't know if I'm emotional or I'm just relieved. I didn't think I'd get it done and I'm getting it done. Or Cuz it's like the prettiest thing I think I've ever made.

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Or the fact that I'm marrying someone so genuinely great. Like I'm about to get married and I'm not dreading it at all.

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I don't have cold feet in the slightest. And so, I thought I would dread this, but I'm so happy.

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[laughter] Then after rejoicing that my project was finally finished, I realized this is not actually finished. It needs ruffles.

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[music] So, I made several yards of ruffle trim to border the whole train and flank the sides of the bustle. And I don't think I have ever been so pleased with anything that I've made.

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Who am I? The feeling of coming downstairs the next morning to a finished dress that I love, I could not wait to show it off to the world, but quickly remembered that my house is on my fiance's commute to work, [music] so

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I could shut the curtain. Oh, and to make the veil, I used two packages of perseverance, a coil of grit, and 3 yards of determination. Now, as much as I loved my reception dress, it just wasn't going to cut it for the type of

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dancing I had in mind. So, I turned my ever transient focus back to the Swan Lake dress I'd started. Confident in my ability to change three times in one day, because I do that every day. I'm what they call a temperature diva. For

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the ideal skirt shape, you're going to want to alternate circle and straight layers. Then add them one by one while discussing what you'll do if your crowd incessantly clinks their glasses trying to make you kiss. We could just yell,

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"You first." That's a good one. We have to kiss to make us kiss. Requires [music] a lot more sacrifice. There's so many pens trapped between the aisles.

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Really? Never noticed. Luckily, though, no one clinked their glasses. I guess no one wants to see us kiss. In fact, the priest didn't even say you may kiss the bride. We just started back down the aisle and then we're like, "Hold up,

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aren't we forgetting something?" Good morning. I slept quite fitfully last night. I slept like a restless little apricot.

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Just so excited to make this bodice. Apparently, it's my birthday today, which I had no idea until my dad texted me and he said something that gave it away. Oh, yeah.

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Happy birthday. Oh, clever boy. I selected a textile with the highest degree of stretch for my bodice. Because my typical dance style at receptions has been described as akin to an exorcism.

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After treating myself to a birthday jog, I pinned my birth matron's reception dress, tested her pain tolerance, and finally pinned a menagerie of pleasing items all over my bodice. Then asked the beloved faceless masses to vote on its

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proper arrangement. I cannot believe I only have two more sleeps till the wedding. I was right not to believe it.

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I woke that morning to the epiphany that I didn't like the trim. But, that was all right, because I had a whole 5 hours to remove the trim, re-trim it, bedazzle it, alter Dan's wedding suit, partake in one final symposium of hoverboard

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choreography with my father, create a bird crown, and make two roughly veiny tourniquets. Once I finished, I got gussied up and put on the shoes that Dan made me. Oh, I can make a whole separate video of all the things Dan did for the

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wedding. He matched Tonto's eyes and used Gary's 6 years worth of shed feathers to create what some people thought was the most horrific pair of shoes they've ever seen, but to me they were the most precious. And there were

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some leftover feathers, which I put in my bouquet along with some chicken feathers that included one of Bazelda's.

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I miss that girl. Now, were I an emotional person, I would say there's something about big events that makes you hyper aware of all of those who are no longer around to witness it. But as we have established, I am not an

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emotional person. of this dress is it was my least favorite of the three. The upside is that I technically didn't want to burn it in a bonfire. When I finished modeling, it was time to load up the trailer with goods for the reception,

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after which I found myself with an unexpected 6 hours of free time. We're 2 days out from the wedding, but tomorrow we're going to spend like all day setting up the reception venue and then go straight to rehearsal. So, the

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question is tonight, should I make a rehearsal dress? Or should I just spend the next few hours relaxing and eating snacks? I posed the question to my followers and they responded with a resounding relax. But I was far too

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invigorated by the idea of making a Sharon Tate-inspired dress, and I knew this was a style of dress I could make faster than you could recite War and Peace, like way faster. Besides, at that point, I would not have enjoyed relaxing

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as much as I enjoyed this. I was high on life, and that's all I was high on, important to note, write that down for later. There I was, doing my favorite thing in the world, only 30-some hours away from marrying my favorite person in

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the world. Admittedly though, after 11, I started getting tired. It is midnight 14 and we're done. So, then I went to bed and nearly died.

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It seemed a rogue band of flesh had been forming around my intestines for a while. Then in the wee hours the morning before my wedding, it began to clamp shut and my intestines started to die.

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And apparently, you can't live with dead bowels. So, the man who mows my lawn, long story, came in, told me I needed surgery. He released the band of flesh, blood flow returned to my intestines, my bowels didn't die, and I didn't die. But

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obviously, the wedding had to be canceled because by the time I fully woke up, we were only a couple hours out from the wedding and I wouldn't heal within a couple hours. In fact, it would take over a month.

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Basically, I woke up at 3:00 a.m. with the most unimaginable pain. I called Dan. He rushed over and then took me to the hospital where my pain was not properly treated for several hours. He was the first doctor who thought that I

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was a med seeker. Mind you, I hadn't so much as dabbled [music] in amphetamines for like every drug under the sun before the CT finally revealed I was having a medical emergency. It hurt so bad. If you Google acute ischemic colitis, it is

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not a cute at all. So, I'm a little disappointed about the wedding, especially considering I got all the [laughter] dresses done in time. But, Dan has just been so amazing. He's called all the vendors. He's going to find us a new date. I'm in good hands.

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The change in pace was insane. I mean, prior to this, I'd spent 10 hours a day for over a month feverishly sewing. And even [music] before that, I hadn't really taken a full day off in ages. I don't say that with pride. I'm not

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touting it as a virtue. I only bring it up to emphasize how jarring this screeching halt was. I was supposed to be on my honeymoon, but instead, I spent [music] the next 3 weeks at home struggling to walk upright, initially

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unable to wear anything but this because I was swollen like a pregnant chihuahua, requiring help for the most basic of tasks, [music] and subsisting on the most unimaginative but easily digestible diet. But, I like to think I kept a

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pretty good attitude about it. Until I found out last 10 days, I have lost, I kid you not, 14 freaking pounds.

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Yeah, after making the most well-fitted, technically complicated bodice I'd ever made. But, before I knew it, I could digest my usual fodder without pain. I could sew. I revamped my hospital gown where it to get our marriage license

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renewed. Made a curtain into a fairy dress to wear for our engagement pictures that we now finally have time to get. Segue. Dan spent eons sculpting this visually exciting custom crest all for me to render the wedding date on it

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fake history. So, he sat his persevering, perky little rear back in the sculpting chair and made a strangled snake to represent my bowel obstruction.

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Listen up, ladies. If he wanted to, he probably still couldn't do this. It's a very rare skill set. I made the same adjustments to the tapestries he [music] designed and then loaded up the trailer yet again to decorate the reception

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hall. We wanted our aesthetic to read as a cross between wedding reception at 8:00, bubonic plague at 9:00, [music] and tell us your theater kids without telling us your theater kids. I was able to actualize several of my childhood

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ambitions, like having the story of Dana McKeran the entry way illustrated by one of the titular characters himself. Oh, I hate that word. We also turned them into coloring pages. Those were a big hit.

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This cake tasted [music] like Styrofoam, probably because Dan baked it, but its visual splendor was a good compensation.

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[music] And the topper was in homage, as the kids say, to the time Dan proposed to me in a pond. Each table would be identified by its own uncanny medieval creature. And if you still couldn't find it, a knight was there to help or throw

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you in the dungeon if you got yourself overserved by the tavern wench. After setting up, I scurried home and quickly changed into my rehearsal dress. This would be the first wedding rehearsal dinner for Dan and I, but the second for

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everyone in our wedding party who had to go through it with the first time while I was in the hospital because the food was already prepared. I fell asleep very anxiously that night. Don't worry, I didn't have cold feet. I just assumed I

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was going to die. [music] Good morning. It's wedding day. While getting ready, I consulted the oracle that was my childhood self. I'd been saving this lip gloss since I was five to wear on my wedding day.

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Smells 25 years old. Time to wear this. [music] I'm so nervous. I'm a coming down.

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You guys look so pretty. I'm not sure how to even explain my mood that morning. It was excitement and disbelief that I was going to be marrying Dan that day. Yes, but it was also excitement and disbelief that I

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woke up that morning. Like the gratitude at simply being alive was next level. And then there was the exhilaration of strangers honking, my neighbors waving me off as I loaded into my favorite vehicle with my favorite people. Then we

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lounged in the church parking lot and played my favorite game while I waited to marry this gorgeous guy that I met years ago who went from a customer to a neighbor to a friend, a boyfriend, a fiance, a caretaker, and finally a

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husband. And if I had emotions, I'd probably be crying right now about what a good husband he's been so far. Though that day, while it was one of the happiest of my life, did not really feel like the day we got married. If I'm

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being honest, I'll probably always think of May 23rd as our anniversary. Not just because that's the day we were supposed to get married, but because that's the day I woke up in a hospital to him sitting next to me drawing me a picture

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after he'd stayed up all night making sure I received life-saving [music] care and then contacting wedding vendors and guests. And in that moment, I looked at him and said, "That's my husband." Dang. You're like a fairy tale. I did

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well for myself. This is a little case. I was like, "Did you put anything inside?" He put one of my false eyelashes that I left at his house.

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Yeah. Now, disregarding the fact that I just pronounced it eyelashes as if he had a little billy in there, we made our way to the reception, briefly stopping to pee [music] at the gas station.

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Thank you. After an upbeat interlude of greeting our loyal subjects, knighting our greeter, and getting mugged by our DJ, it was [music] time for me to finally be introduced to the world as McKara Still Tours, but the married version. Listen,

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the last name Tours is going extinct. Like, to the point where instead of a swan, it should have been a dodo bird on our crest. And I stand a good chance of being the last surviving Tours ever if I

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play my cards right. Like, if I cut out sugar, Yeah, I don't want to do that.

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So, maybe someday I will take his last name. He doesn't care either way. He's completely impervious to the matter.

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After months of practice, I pretty much forgot I was supposed to be involved in cake cutting. You know the old saying, sometimes I have about as many brain cells as there are Tours on the planet.

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Then I reluctantly changed my dress, Dan performed a freestyle rap, Courtney read the Declaration of Independence. This man's name was Brad. And only two of those statements were a lie. Before the father-daughter dance, I gave everyone a little backstory about the song. It was

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one that my dad sang to me at my baby dedication called I will be here. The lyrics pretty much say, "I will be here when you feel like being quiet, when you need to speak your mind, when the mirror

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tells you you're older, I will hold you." And throughout my life, nothing has rang truer. When I think of words like dependable, constant, nurturing, and unconditionally loving, to me, those are all synonyms for dad. And I know that's not a universal experience, which

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is heartbreaking, but it makes me feel so uniquely blessed. Oh my gosh, look at those freaking crybabies. They're probably just emotional cuz they were bored. Figured it was time to fix that.

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Hoverboarding is really special to my dad and I because neither of us like bending our knees that much. I taught him how to do it years ago and he loved it. He took to it like a brick to water.

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He even taught his best friend Roland. So, when I pitched the idea of a father-daughter hover dance, I knew that if nothing else, Roland would get a kick out of it. And well, sadly, [music] cancer very unexpectedly took Roland a

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few months before the wedding. I've got a feeling he had himself a really [music] good chuckle about it up in heaven. They're still bored? Tough crowd. I figured kids these days are only entertained by brain-rotting violence, which is why I held the

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bouquet toss next. But unfortunately, everyone knew better than to get in Courtney's way. Guess I'd have to save that ice pack for my own post-dancing aches and pains. Oh, which reminds me, there's something I meant to ask you

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guys. Have you come to watch me dance? About damn time. If I may say, [music] the deep joy of dancing like a lunatic is greatly expounded when just a few short weeks earlier you could barely walk. And panting for sweet oxygen as your heart

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thunders wildly in your chest is so much more delicious when you recently had to wonder if that heart would stop beating altogether. Apologies if I come off as a little dramatic to you, but I found out that only about 35% of people survive

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ischemic gut. Deadly than a heart attack or stroke. So, yeah, I spent my evening dancing hard with the people I loved.

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And well, the night [music] that Dan and I poured so much blood, sweat, and creativity into eventually ended, we will forever be living our happily ever crafter.

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