Why waste 2 weeks planning a wedding?

Wedding dress, rings, music and a reception hall.

When it comes down to it, that's about everything you need to pull off a wedding.

Just ask Deborah Wasmer, who helped plan her daughter's wedding in only 10 days.

"Odds and ends is pretty much all that's left," she said on Friday, just two days before the big event. "Even our nails are done."

Wasmer's daughter, Laura, married her grade-school sweetheart, U.S. Army Pvt. Bob Dill, on Sunday in front of about 120 guests at the Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Kildeer.

While the wedding planning was short, it's an eternity compared to their one-day and one-night honeymoon. Dill, an aviation operations specialist with the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, will return to North Carolina's Fort Bragg on Tuesday. By the end of the month, he'll be deployed to Afghanistan.

Laura, 19, who grew up in Island Lake, and Bob, 20, who was raised in Wauconda, met as eighth-graders at Wauconda Middle School. They continued dating during their Wauconda High School days.

The couple exchanged vows outdoors on a peninsula, beneath the shade of two large trees. The ceremony, officiated by the Rev. Dawn Mass of Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wauconda, elicited tears and laughter from the guests.

The bride wore white and a big smile. The groom wore his service uniform, complete with the maroon beret of airborne troops.

Before the ceremony, Dill insisted he wasn't nervous. Afterward, his new bride said she wasn't sure everything would come together on such short notice.

"I feel great," Laura said during a photo session following the ceremony. "I'm very excited."

While Dill is serving overseas, his wife will study at Northern Illinois University to become a special-education teacher. She plans to teach in Illinois after graduation.

During the ceremony, Mass addressed Dill's impending deployment and the time the couple will spend apart.

"You'll be OK, for you are in love, and that is God's miracle," she told them.