Less than two months!!

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:41 PM

I am in awe that the wedding is less than two months away.  When I first started planning, my wedding counters were over 500 days and now I am down to 60!  Where does the time go?

How things have changed since I started the planning process:

• I have less patience
• Co-workers tell me I seem more stressed out than normal
• When asked about my engagement and wedding date, I no longer answer "June 21st" in a flighty, romantic tone.  Instead I answer (with the same response) in a rushed, slightly paniced tone.
• I can finally start to "see" my wedding, and not just picture it in imaginary, theoretical pieces
• Bridezilla tendencies creep out every once in a while
• I now can name way more varieties of flowers than I ever thought possible
• I catch myself noticing certain color combos and patterns and thinking of how cool they would look in a wedding scheme
• I can name significant others of most people in my family and in my life
• I can now not have a single conversation without the word "wedding" or "married" coming up (it is always on my mind)
• I forget what it's like to have free time (my hobbies and everything in my non-work time are wedding related)
• I forget what it's like to go shopping or out to eat on a whim (everything is highly budgeted)
• My coffee table looks like a Michael's Crafts exploded on it
• I have no qualms about meeting "strangers" from the internet IRL at GTG's
• Everything I consider doing, buying, or eating has to go through the "how does this affect the wedding/how is this wedding-related" filter

I am sure there are more!

Honestly, I love being a bride and planning a wedding, and am so thankful for the long engagement (as it made planning less stressful over-all), however, the draw-back of the long engagement is that I am now in a place where I just want the wedding to be here, be good, and be done.  Fi and I can't wait to be relaxing in Thailand...