I’m Married!
So…I got married. Yes, I know this post is only about 2 months late, but do you know how crazy one can become after the…
Wedding Update: I’ve Lost My Marbles
One week and it’s official: I have lost my marbles. It is so crazy that in just one week the big day will finally be…
Wedding Countdown: Two Weeks!
Two weeks. TWO WEEKS. OMG, the two week countdown is here! I thought it was so bizarre once one month rolled around and I was saying to people, “I’m getting married in a month.” But now two weeks?! Okay, I’ll try to stop saying that. Puzzle pieces are falling into place. Final numbers are being tallied. Balances are being paid. Week of and day of schedules are being written. My days are getting filled with appointments – for wedding dress fittings, hair highlights, a meeting with the photographer and cake lady. The gifts we bought for our wedding party are being delivered and packaged. Our marriage license has been applied for. Family is going to start coming in just one week – so excited to see my mom! These last two weeks are going to be fairly maniacal, but the end result will be so worth. Husband and wife. This year of engagement has absolutely flown by, and I’m sure these two weeks will as well. My Twitter statuses might get a little out of control but if you want to follow my excitement, I’m @chicklitplus. Two weeks…until I’m a bride. Pinching myself.
Wedding Update: Less Than One Month!
In twenty-four days, I become a wife. Holy buckets, where has the time gone? This year has flown by, and now my days are filled with last minute details – confirming with my vendors, making a play list for the DJ, planning the rehearsal dinner. We just applied for our marriage license last week and now have that bad boy in our possession. My mom will get to Iowa in just two weeks and I will be so glad to finally have her here and going through this with me. The week before the wedding is started to get filled with appointments – hair, nails, soldering the rings, final dress fitting and pick up. Our ceremony outline and songs have been confirmed, our decorations are being delivered, and the RSVP’s are still trickling in. We have a spare room in our house that was dubbed “The Wedding Room” once we moved in, and now you can barely cross the threshold because it’s jam packed with boxes. I have my second dress fitting tonight and my maids will be learning how to bustle my dress. I’m so excited for this one because I’m curious to see how it will look. My train is quite large and there are seventeen hook and eye boppers for the bustle, so it’s going to take some time to get done! But I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product 🙂 I have to make this post short because well…I’m getting married in twenty-four days and up to my eyes in stress and my to-do list 😉
Wedding Update: Here Comes the…Stress
Don’t call me a bridezilla. This is the sentence that I say in my head over and over as my wedding date gets closer. I don’t like yelling at people and I am very non-confrontational, but this wedding has brought out a whole new side of me. Why am I yelling at people? The latest fiasco (in the line of many) is that our jewelry store forgot to order our wedding bands. Yes, we went to the jewelry store in May, looked at bands for two hours, had three people including a manager help us, yet no one went ahead and pushed the order through. So when I thought to myself, where is our phone call about the bands being in, and decide to stop off at the store, imagine my extreme pleasure in being told, “I’m sorry, it looks like the order didn’t get put through.” Cue yelling. We’ve also had salespeople “forget” to order the bridesmaid dresses so now my maids barely have time for alterations, and even a hotel simply decided our contract and deposit to block off rooms for our guests wasn’t good enough and gave it to a different wedding party. So please, don’t call me a bridezilla when I yell. I wouldn’t have to be yelling if these errors weren’t being made. The wedding planning would still be stressful, don’t get me wrong, but now I have zero confidence in any of my vendors. I have now becoming the paranoid bride that is calling all of her vendors – from the officiant, cake lady, florist, reception hall manager, etc – to check, double check, confirm and re-confirm everything is set and I will get no more surprises along the way. Is stuff still going to go wrong? Yes, I have no doubt. That happens. But I have to say the amount of human error that has happened so far has me quite displeased, stressed, and not sleeping well at night. But that’s why I have this blog – so I can vent – right? I’ve been putting a few charming tidbits of what’s going wrong on Facebook and Twitter, and I love the email messages I am receiving from other past brides regaling me with their horror stories. They are helping me calm down, see the light at the end of the tunnel, and show me that one day I will look back and laugh and hopefully tell another woman all my sad stories so she can feel relief. I accept that no wedding is perfect and that the planning process will put stress on any bride-to-be.
Well, that was quite the rant! Can you tell this latest miscue just happened and is fresh on my mind? Let’s talk about something more uplifting…like my invitations! I haven’t shared them with the virtual world yet, so I’m happy to use this post to show them off. My first dress fitting is next week, and I finally purchased my shoes as well, so I’m all set for that appointment. Some items we are working on now: our wedding slideshow, buying gifts for our wedding party, and finalizing our ceremony timeline and vows. Less than two months to go and no matter how stressful this has become, I’m still so excited to become a wife and marry my best friend. Just don’t call me a bridezilla.
Wedding Update: Nightmares!
My wedding is just under three months away and I have started having dreams – more like nightmares – every night this past week about the wedding. I have dreamt about my dress not fitting, wearing the wrong dress, the DJ playing my music at the wrong time, lost veils and garters, the groom not finding a ride to the wedding, my bridal party not showing up. What is going on here? As I’m telling people this, a lot of married women are telling me they went through the same thing – and some brides even still have these nightmares, years after they said I Do! I’m glad I’m not alone, but man, these are not fun. I wake up every morning so stressed about another item I need to check off the list or my overactive mind finds a new scenario that can go wrong on the big day. I never imagined planning a wedding would become this stressful, but as we get closer, I can definitely see the toll it’s taken. Invites are going out next week (only three weeks behind according to my The Knot checklist!) and I can’t wait to see if I start dreaming about those next. Off to hunt down a cocktail – or maybe just a piece of chocolate 😉
Wedding Video Update: 5 Months to Go!
I’m happy my camera is working this month so I could do another vlog for my wedding post! Please ignore the mess behind me –…
Wedding Update!
Well, I’ve been behind on my video blogs about my wedding because the video function on my camera seems to not want to work lately! I decided to finally just give an update the old fashioned way – typing! So let’s see, what’s going on wedding-wise? My mom was in town last week from North Carolina (and the Iowa weather was not welcoming!) and we had appointments almost every day! My beautiful Maggie Sottero gown is in, and I’m happy to report that it fits and I should be ready to go when my actual fittings start coming up, which starts about 3 months before the wedding. My mom bought me my veil and the bracelet I will be wearing on my wedding day! I did a hair trial which I loved, and met once again with my officiate and florist to give them updates. We did a taste-testing for our dinner menu and made our choices, plus decided on linen colors. Whew!
What’s next you ask? Invites, invites, invites! We are currently working on the wording of the invitations, and will plan the design this coming weekend. We also have to pick out the tuxes the guys will wear, and we are making calls to secure a bus to take our wedding party from the ceremony to reception venue. We’re nearly at the five month countdown, which is just crazy! I feel like it’s creeping up faster and faster, but I’m making good work on the to-do list and am getting more excited every day 🙂 I hope to have another update for you soon, and hopefully it will be back to a vlog!
Wedding Video: 7 Months to Go!
My wedding is now 7 months away! I recorded another video in my spare time ( I apologize for my sweatshirt and no makeup look…
