Well this is it. As I write this, I am smack in the middle of my last work day as a single woman. Yikes - even reading that back sends a shiver through my spine.

Yes folks, the time has come to get married. All of the plans are in place. The caterer has been paid. The DJ has our song list. Flowers are waiting to be tastefully arranged. And our dining room is overflowing with presents.

Questions of our sanity are a regular piece to any conversation these days - despite the fact that I think we are doing remarkably well thus far. Ask me how I'm doing 48-hours from now and it may be a different story.

For now, we are excited to embark on this next chapter in our lives. And me? Well other than committing myself to another - I'm most looking forward to being surrounded by family and friends on this important day.

How many times in your life do you get together those people who are key characters in each chapter of your life? The answer is two - your wedding and your funeral - and only one of them are you presumably able to enjoy.

So I'm considering my wedding day as the closest I'll ever get to being on "This is Your Life" and I plan to soak it all in.

There will be my neighbor Miranda who was my daily playmate for a solid decade. I started each free day with a call to see if she was home. From there, we would spend the day on our sleds in the winter or in the yard in the summer. Rainy days gave us time to catch up with our Barbies.

There will be friends like Anne, Eric, Jess, Rachael and the Matts, some who go way back to elementary school and who I've just never been able to shake. We spent our formative years together from building robots in sixth grade to kicking butt at Mock Trial competitions in high school. We went to dances together, gossiped at lunch together and even convinced our chemistry teacher that getting into study groups would be a good idea - time and time again (even though no actual studying got done).

There will be my college roommate Melissa - who just celebrated one of her own milestone moments when she had her first baby last month. We knew we would be friends forever when, on the day we moved into our dorm room during our freshman year of college, we discovered that we both owned the Free Willy soundtrack.

There will be co-workers who became more than just people you work with - they became good friends and confidants who made going to work each day a whole lot better.

And there will be plenty of family - aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, great aunts and uncles, second and third cousins - the list goes on and on.

I can't wait to see all of their smiling (at least I hope they're smiling) faces as we celebrate our marriage. They are part of my cherished past and together with my husband-to-be and his family and friends, I hope they will all be part of our future.