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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Its been a while!

I can tell I'm getting married in 3 weeks. I have totally neglected my blog. Why is it that when you are getting married, everyone and their brother's mother's uncle thinks that they can tell you exactly what you want and need? Am I not capable of figuring that out for myself? Between having my mother tell me that she wants to add another 6 people to the guest list 3 weeks before the wedding, and finding out that I really don't have enough money to buy any flowers but hydrangeas (which are perfectly fine, its just not having any choice because we're so poor kind of feels shitty!)
I just feel like this wedding isn't about us anymore. If I can get my mom to stop adding people to the guest list I will be happy!
We have been working on our centerpieces and favors this weekend, and they do look quite nice. Right now we've basically decided that since we have little say over the ceremony we are going to make the most of the reception and personalize the heck out of it. We broke down and hired a DJ since the iPod thing was a little tacky, even for us. We've been trying to find songs that we absolutely must play and that black list of songs that absolutely cannot be played (e.g. Macarena, Electric Slide etc.) Our list is extensive and the black list looks like a Nashville lineup.
My boss is getting ready to have her baby. She is actually scheduled to have her right around the wedding date, so we're not sure if she'll be able to come. I'd say having a baby is a fairly decent excuse...! I went over to her place for a meeting this afternoon and got to see her nursery; it is soooooo cute! They did a Classic Pooh theme and it looks like something from a magazine. That little girl is going to be one stylin' kid, too. She has more outfits than I think I've owned in the last 10 years! It is great to see how excited they are, they are both going to make really great parents. Thinking about other people's big events seems to make me not think about the fact that we're getting married in three weeks. Holy. Frickin. Cow.

Any tips on how to survive this maddening craziness and get through two group projects and presentations, one big ass paper and a portfolio (all within the next 10 days)??? Any brilliant suggestions will be rewarded.