42 days/6 weeks - Music

We just picked a perfect recessional song yesterday, yea!

But we are utterly clueless about a first dance song. We have looked at/listened to a lot of options. They're either too fast or too slow or too overplayed.

I'm waiting to get the score (?) for the song I want to walk down the aisle to. Then I need to hear it on a piano, and if I like it, find someone to play it.

Fiance's friend, one of his groomsmen, is working on assembling folks for a string quartet.

Another friend is singing while we have our unity ceremony and family prayer. I'm hoping she can also play the piano for my processional. We'll see.

We've got songs picked for the seating of the family and the entrance of the wedding party, but we need the string quartet to learn how to play these songs!

Speaking of the family...in the last week we found out that there is a good chance neither of our grandmas will be at the wedding due to health reasons. :(

I need to finalize details, sign contracts and pay a bunch of bills. Sigh... Our account is gonna be empty quickly.

6 weeks... It's getting very very real!

We have reservations for our honeymoon all set!!! Sooooo exciting!!

6 more weeks...

48 days

i look forward to after the wedding when i can watch tv for an evening and do nothing else - and not have to feel guilty about it. oh, and to get to do all that WITH MY HUSBAND!!!

much to do still - all the stuff that i swore i wouldn't put off til the last minute because it would cause too much stress.

we had a third shower yesterday - it was mainly friends and family of my fiance, which was a bit weird for me. but fun, nonetheless. awesome cake too! and, boy, do i love cake! ;)

my sweetie has been awesome. i've had a LOT of non-wedding stress the last month, and breakdowns have become pretty standard. he has been responding so well and has been so encouraging!

ugh, still so much to do. i'd better get busy on it.

56 Days/8 Weeks

I can handle (barely) the concept of 56 days. But when my wonderful fiance told me today that the wedding is 8 weeks away, it became freak-out time. Really. Cannot handle that.

It's not a matter of fearing marriage. It's a matter of not having enough time to get everything done for the wedding.

Tonight at dinner my sis-in-law inquired what we still have left to work on, pretty much expecting things to be wrapped up by now. So, I started down the list. And not a real, tangible list, but just ones that came to mind in my head. Lord knows the written list would have taken much longer to rattle off.

My mom has been a huge help! She's thinking about things that I'm not. She's doing things that I'm not capable of doing. She's even cutting apart her wedding dress to make ring bearer pillows for us!!!!!

Tomorrow I meet with our potential floral designer. I need to get pics ready of bouquets that I like. Busy, busy!