OMG! Four months left!
I'm actually in New York City right now, typing this in my closet-sized (but well-amenitized, with flat-screen TV and stylish furnishings) hotel room. I just checked this blog for the first time in several weeks and realized from my countdown widget that there are only four-plus months left 'til my wedding! Crazy! I feel like I should be doing more, but then I look at our timeline and we're pretty on track with all our tasks. To make myself feel better, let me list some of our big checked-off to-do's here:
-We sent save the date postcards out to folks back in January, and I finished writing our invitation text (with directions, gift registry info, etc). Henry's designing the invitations and we'll be sending them out in late May/early June.
-Ordered and paid for (well, my mom paid for) my wedding dress. A BIG accomplishment for me, since I had been looking at dresses for a good six months already.
-Ordered my potential reception dress--which should be waiting for me back home when I return. It's th Amanda dress from Trashy Diva, a clothing line whose dresses are simple, sexy, elegant and beautiful.
-Booked the reception and ceremony venues
-Scoped out the ceremony space a few times for decoration and ceremony ideas
-Booked our photographer
-Pulled our wedding party together, which is taking the lead on the decorations at our wedding, and helping with lots of other things
-Chose and have been working with the officiant for our wedding (our friend Shash Yazhi, who has been great)
-Signed up for our gift registry (we're asking folks to donate to our fund for a house)
-Pretty much decided on our menu, and now just need to find servers and folks to set up and clean up (we're not pressing our friends and family into service in that way, except for helping to clean up the decorations at the ceremony site)
-Confirmed two of our good friends as singers at our ceremony, where they will sing a duet version of Danny's Song by Kenny Loggins.
-Have a lineup of free DJ's (it helps that H. is a DJ and has lots of really good DJ friends) for the reception.
I guess that's a lot of work, but I still feel like I should be doing more! It's the Type-A person in me, she gets kinda antsy. But we are having a far less formal wedding than the wedding magazines encourage you to have, and don't care so much about things like cake-toppers and personalized, engraved wedding cake serving sets, etc. And H. is handling all of the materials production and music (invitations, web site, DJs )So that cuts out a lot of work. I know I just need to breathe and relax, like H. says, and everything will be all right.
-We sent save the date postcards out to folks back in January, and I finished writing our invitation text (with directions, gift registry info, etc). Henry's designing the invitations and we'll be sending them out in late May/early June.
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-Ordered my potential reception dress--which should be waiting for me back home when I return. It's th Amanda dress from Trashy Diva, a clothing line whose dresses are simple, sexy, elegant and beautiful.
-Booked the reception and ceremony venues
-Scoped out the ceremony space a few times for decoration and ceremony ideas
-Booked our photographer
-Pulled our wedding party together, which is taking the lead on the decorations at our wedding, and helping with lots of other things
-Chose and have been working with the officiant for our wedding (our friend Shash Yazhi, who has been great)
-Signed up for our gift registry (we're asking folks to donate to our fund for a house)
-Pretty much decided on our menu, and now just need to find servers and folks to set up and clean up (we're not pressing our friends and family into service in that way, except for helping to clean up the decorations at the ceremony site)
-Confirmed two of our good friends as singers at our ceremony, where they will sing a duet version of Danny's Song by Kenny Loggins.
-Have a lineup of free DJ's (it helps that H. is a DJ and has lots of really good DJ friends) for the reception.
I guess that's a lot of work, but I still feel like I should be doing more! It's the Type-A person in me, she gets kinda antsy. But we are having a far less formal wedding than the wedding magazines encourage you to have, and don't care so much about things like cake-toppers and personalized, engraved wedding cake serving sets, etc. And H. is handling all of the materials production and music (invitations, web site, DJs )So that cuts out a lot of work. I know I just need to breathe and relax, like H. says, and everything will be all right.
posted by Rona Fernandez | 6:42 AM
1 Comments:
I was chatting with another friend who is getting married in August. Then got to talking about that 4th and 3rd month before your wedding can be the most stressful but only because it's the waiting period. While everything else was have to get up and go, once your invites are out, alot of it is waiting. But how this waiting especially for brides who are real "doers" can be more stressful than the actual doing.
It's good you made a list of all the things you've already done to remind yourself that you've done quite a bit already. And in the end, he shows up, you show up, and someone to tell you when to say "I do" hey everything else is gravy!
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