First things first - I'd like to thank Kat for her excellent suggestion, and direct you all to scroll down and check out my new wedding countdown :) I have countdowns everywhere else in my life (Facebook... MySpace... my bathroom sink... seriously - I have a countdown clock on my bathroom sink) so I'm not sure why this hadn't occurred to me yet. But thanks to some quick thinking from upstate NY, I've remedied the situation! Thanks Kat!
So, TOMORROW is our next BIG day... we're signing our lease and picking up our keys and walking into our very first apartment, which will be officially OURS! SOOOO excited! Unfortunately we won't have much time to spend staring in awe at our white walls, but we'll be going back over the course of the weekend. We might even go to Home Depot and get some paint and painters tape, so we can at least start taping this weekend. Ben wants to paint before we start moving anything in, and I'm anxious to move some things out of my poor dad's increasingly over-crowded house (we've basically got two rooms full of stuff... plus my bedroom of course). So I'm hoping we can tape this weekend and paint next weekend, and probably the following weekend too. I won't fool myself into thinking it's only going to take one weekend.
This weekend will be a little busy though. For starters, it's my mom's first wedding anniversary, so she and my stepdad are going to Ocean City (where they spent their honeymoon - it was just a long weekend and they're basically just doing the same thing again). Which means I get to watch the dog. She's not difficult or anything, it just means that I have to plan my weekend around that responsibility. We're essentially supposed to be house-sitting too. We might go out with college friends on Friday - my friend (also my bridesmaid's boyfriend) Matt is coming up from NC (he's in a chemistry PhD program at UNC) so we're trying to get together while he's here. And Saturday evening is "secret meeting night" - our once-monthly tradition with Ben's sisters - and we're meeting at Em's for a cookout (depending on the weather). It's really not THAT busy, but when you throw in trying to spend some time in White Marsh, it starts to seem a little hectic to me. Anyway, you probably didn't need the play-by-play of my weekend. I'll move on.
Wedding stuff is starting to seem a little more urgent to me these days. Invitations are assembled, sealed, stamped and sitting in a box waiting to go out this weekend. Felt good to get that all taken care of, and it was actually quite enjoyable - Ben and I just sat at the dining room table in my empty house on Sunday and chatted while we put them all together. My next project is programs. It's already pissing me off. I had grand ideas, and they just aren't looking as grand as I thought. They're looking homemade, which makes me angry. I don't want them to look homemade. Of course they ARE, in fact, homemade, which makes avoiding the whole "homemade look" quite difficult. I don't know yet what the solution is, but I'm working on it. It'll probably keep me up half the night... wonderful. We've scheduled a walk-through with our photographer, and our final DJ meeting (I can't even begin to tell you how FABULOUS our DJ is... there are no words), and our final meeting with the Pastor... I know I keep saying this, but things are really starting to feel REAL! Every time I think "Holy crap, this shit is REAL!" it just gets real-er the next day. Oh, anyone know of a website where I can get cute return address labels that aren't ridiculously priced? I got a bug up my ass the other day about ordering return address labels for us in our new apartment with my new last name, knowing we'll need them for all those thank-you notes when we get back from the honeymoon. I guess writing all the thank-yous for my shower gifts got me thinking about that. Totally random. But anyway, most of what I found in my brief search was either lame or pricey. Although me blogging about return address labels might actually be the lame part of this scenario...
I'm also taking suggestions for mother/son and father/daughter dance songs, as well as a song to play when our parents are introduced into the reception. We're planning on doing our mother/son and father/daughter dance at the same time, so it can't be "Butterfly Kisses" or "Mama" or anything gender-specific. Right now we're thinking "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion. Doesn't quite fit into the rest of our musical scheme, but it's a pretty song with the right sentiment. Does anyone know of anything Jack Johnson-ish that would work? You know, just a one-guy-and-a-guitar kind of song? And we want to play something upbeat, but kind of a throw-back, for when our parents are introduced. But there's a bit of a generation gap between his parents (mid-60's) and mine (early 50's), not to mention vast differences in musical taste (Johhny Cash versus Led Zeppelin). It's a challenge. A small detail, but a challenge. These are the kinds of things that can really stump you.
Speaking of being stumped, the whole seating chart thing is KILLING me. First of all, let me just say that I am fully aware of how ridiculous it is that I'm even working on a seating chart. As you may have noticed from earlier in this post, I haven't even sent invitations yet, much less gotten responses - I don't even know who's coming. But that little organizational bug that lives in the pit of my stomach gets an idea in its head from time to time and just won't let me rest until I work on it. Ugh. But hey, if that's my biggest wedding-related problem (that and the damn cheezy programs), I'm doing alright. It seems like EVERYONE has a horror story about how their families acted during their wedding planning process (or even their WEDDING itself), and I've been incredibly blessed with two families that couldn't care less what I do with my wedding as long as I'm happy :) Not that they aren't interested - they're always interested in how things are going and excited for the big day - but they haven't really asked for anything (apart from a modest list of friends they'd like to have there, which I asked them for), much less made any demands.
Alright it's late and this is far longer than I intended, as usual. I really just wanted to share my excitement about TOMORROW but I guess I got carried away :) YAY FOR TOMORROW!
Just and idea for your return address labels. What if you made them? For a friend of mine's wedding they took a picture from their wedding and used it as the image on the return address labels for their thank you notes. It's inexpensive and you get to personalize them to what you want specifically instead of just what is offered by different companies. Plus if you run out you can always make more :-)
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