Well over a year and a half into this engagement, wedding planning has morphed into something entirely different. In the beginning it was all about inspiration and ideas. And I filled my head with a lot of those. But now it is becoming much more real, and I have moved past that in many ways. [...]
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Save the dates ready for print
Our save the dates have been edited, scrutinized, uploaded, and ordered! It feels so good that it is (temporarily, at least) out of our hands and onto the printing press.
This has been a big hurdle and it is a big giant check on the to-do list. There was a fair amount of stress, disappointment, and [...]
Priorities
Mike is finally home! Now that we’re together again, we can make some progress on the wedding front. Except that all I want to work on right now are non-time-sensitive projects, like ceremony fan designs and reception factoids, not pressing to-dos like save the dates (now quite late) and invitations and such.
<sigh>
The world wide wedding web
*Warning*
This post is 100% wedding-planning-induced rant.
Dear wedding vendors,
I’m a little frustrated with planning right now, so please bear with me. I just have a little request that I’d like to put out there.
Please, for my sake and yours, get a decent website!!!
Actually, for some of you we may need to start with get a website, [...]
Check and check
We have a photographer! And a DJ! More on this later. I just wanted to note the occasion. Progress has been made!
Time
It’s 2010. Holy canoli. Where did the time go?
Our engagement has been on the longer side. (Six days short of two years.) I’ve had nothing but time on my hands but now the wedding is in less than 7 months. SEVEN MONTHS! All of a sudden, I’m not only on the wedding checklist timeline, I’m [...]
Yellow dresses
The search is on for yellow bridesmaids dresses. I asked all of my girls to choose a yellow dress, roughly knee-length. So they are the ones choosing. And actually, I don’t know that anyone except for my sister (MOH) is actively looking yet. Which might worry me if I weren’t way the heck over here [...]
Centerpieces…check!
While we were home this summer, we did check a couple of things off of the wedding list. I went to IKEA three times. That store is so much more wonderful after living on a remote tropical island for two years. Let’s just say our apartment is not very homey here. Because selection is terrible [...]
Planning a wedding is like teaching first grade
Hear me out on this one.
All the wedding mags and websites like to point out the average person’s inability to plan a party as large as a wedding. Because most people don’t have experience planning and carrying out huge shindigs, they need to hire a wedding planner to do it for them. That way [...]
Overwhelmed
The word of the day today is overwhelmed. As in overwhelm. You know…
o · ver · whelm
to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by stress.
to overpower or overcome, esp. with superior forces; destroy; crush: the independent and distant budget wedding planner was overwhelmed by the stalwart wedding industry.
to cover [...]
