Wedding planning is like quick sand. It looks so calm on the outside, but once you're in it - it sucks the life out of you. I always thought it would be easy. I believed that since I had been looking forward to this day for years, that I would be able to plan an event for 300 people with ease. No one ever told me that having a budget was going to cause an enormous amount of stress or that choosing December (I wanted my dream winter wedding) would be more difficult that anything. Maybe it isn't December that's making it difficult - maybe it's the fact that it is New Year's Eve!
However, the following is what we have completed:
- Ceremony location
- Reception location
- Caterer for reception
- Minister for the ceremony
- Bridal party (not including ushers)
- My wedding dress
- Bridesmaids dresses
- Photographer
- Save-the-dates
- Florist is decided but not reserved
- DJ
- Memory book for a guest book
- Serving set and toasting flutes
- Cake topper
- Honeymoon including airfare - but no passports yet!
As far as the rest of my life, I have none. I took 12 credit hours in 3 months and got a 3.84 GPA consisting of 3 A's and 1 B+. I think this was pretty impressive for going home almost every weekend except maybe one per month. I now have 2 jobs on campus not including my job as personal wedding planner. I also begin the fall semester in a week and a half with 16 credit hours. Josh and I will finally be living in the same zip code after 8 months! This will be a relief and I definitely will not be using skype every night!
Right now my life is in overdrive and every so often it gets out of control and I collapse. The goal is to minimize those collapses until January 2, 2011 when I can collapse in Jamaica with my incredible husband and set my cares assail in the Caribbean Ocean! Then 5 days later they will come back to me as we rush home to frigid weather so I can begin classes for my last semester of college EVER!
