Double Digits
Today, we are 99 days from the wedding. And I have reached the point where I think about it pretty much every minute.
We’re pretty much on track. We did most of the big stuff really early. So now it’s down to the details. My dress should be here next week and I’ll start my fittings, so this weekend, I need to buy shoes and undergarments. Stuff like that.
But there is also stuff that is freaking me out. For instance, my friend Amy is letterpress printing our programs and she needs copy by this weekend to get started. Do I have the copy? Nope? Do I have a rough idea of what copy I want to use so I can at least Greek it? Nope. Did this thought keep me up most of the night? Yep.
As a girl with some event planning background, I’ve learned to trust that things will fall into place. At Northwest Bookfest, we called it “Bookfest Karma.” But that doesn’t mean I’m not sweating all the small stuff we have to get done in less than 100 days. And it doesn’t mean I haven’t already been having text book anxiety dreams consisting of storylines involving me arriving to the wedding venue having forgotten to pick up my wedding dress.
But I’m also really really excited. Stoked, actually. I just can’t believe it’s three months away!
March 1st, 2007 at 1:15 pm
You know, Girl, I’ve really been struggling to understand the dream I had on Tuesday night in which M. and I were on some sort of roadtrip via school bus with like 50 other random peeps, and after we stopped somewhere for a bite, he let the bus leave without me on board. Fortunately (and not for the first time, mind you), your blog has come to my rescue. Now I understand that the painfully obvious dissection of said dream is that I’m experiencing empathetic wedding-related anxiety.
March 1st, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Watch Shakespeare in Love this weekend. The mystery of things working out. (yes, that’s a fragment)
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:27 am
my advice? keep it simple. many programs i have done lately consisted of the following:
1) date of wedding
2) name of bride and groom
3) names of people participating in the wedding (officiant, best man, maid of honor, parents of bride/groom, person doing a reading, person that sings “wind beneath my wings” and brings the house down in tears, band that gets wasted and starts covering journey at your reception.
4) a brief thank you to everyone for their support and for being with you on your “special” day.
there ya go.
short and sweet and you can go stress about something else!
~a