I've always loved Autumn, it's always felt like a hugely exciting time of year for me. Something about the change in the air, the way the leaves turn, the changing temperatures... it makes me all tingly and happy and excited. I love the way the nights start getting darker, I love getting out my winter coat and bundling up, I love curling up inside under a blanket and staying warm when it's black and cold outside.
Autumn has always seemed like a very exciting time to me, and I wonder if part of that has something to do with the UK school calendar.
Okay, no, hear me out, I know that sounds random. But look at it this way - every September, from the ages of 3 to 21, something new happened. I went into a new class, I started a new school, I moved to a new home etc etc. September/October has thus seemed always like a time of year that is brimming full of potential, the possibilities of this new year were endless, and I was indestructible.
Add to that then the positive parade of different festivities which followed - Halloween, Bonfire Night, my birthday, Christmas... I barely have time to recover from the excitement of one before the next exciting thing has arrived. I'm basically a total mess of quivering anticipation and glee from 30th September until like 7th January. On the rare occasion there is pre-Christmas snow I basically just flip my shit.
Add to this the fact that when it gets too hot I become a hot, sweaty, useless mess of an excuse for a human being, it made sense to to move our wedding out of the Summer and into my favourite time of year.
What this means though is that my excitement for this Autumn has been dialled all the way up to 11. I'm constantly a little bit tingly and wound up, I have to keep giving myself a talking to to just calm the hell down and act like a normal person. There is SO MUCH coming up, and sometimes it seems really really far away, and then that slightly chill breeze will catch me, with the smell of September on it, and I just get excited all over again.
Was your wedding during your favourite time of year? Is it near any other events that you enjoy?
