Getting in gear

Posted Friday, July 20, 2007 7:38 PM

Ever since Adam and I became engaged, we've been doing errands here and there. Now that, as I am reminded constantly, we have three months, it's crunch time. Luckily I am a fairly organized person, as is Adam, so we knew that eventually we would hit a weekend that was more wedding-related than non. This is that weekend.

The madness began last night, when Adam and I went to Bloomingdale's to add in some items to our registry. Of course, in Murphy's Law fashion, the scanner wasn't working – so we ended up using the online registry anyway (although Adam has to head back there this evening because our flatware is MIA on their Web site).

While Adam goes shopping, I'll be getting made-up. One of the former brides-to-be I met online is also a make-up artist, and she luckily lives fairly close to my house.

Since all the wedding checklists I've been using (yes, that's checklists plural) suggest starting your beauty regiment early, I've been getting pre-wedding facials (highly recommended), one of which I'll be doing this weekend.

Then it is off to David's Bridal for my first fitting. I have the shoes and all the accoutrements that go with it. I'm excited and nervous (I bought it big and hope it doesn't fit, so they have to take it in).

We'll be purchasing of our ketubbah this weekend from an awesome online store called MP Artworks (I spent the day gathering Hebrew names from my parents).

Then Sunday we'll be meeting with the rabbi and going over our ceremony, which allows us to create our program for the wedding – yes, one more thing on the list.

After that we're taking our engagement pictures at a truly beautiful setting. We've been looking forward to having really nice pictures to give to our family and put up in the house.

This weekend's checklist also includes the need to pick up the stamps for the invitations, which my grandmother picked up today from out stationery supplier – so back to the post office I must go. And now that I've put all the guest's addresses into a solitary excel spreadsheet, we can get them to the calligrapher's (a good friend of my future mother-in-law's). Then there's photocopying the auf ruf insert for the invitations (so it looks like a trip to Kinko's, too).

Of course, when the weekend is over, the seemingly never-ending list of things to do will be a bit shorter. And I can breathe a sigh of relief – until next weekend, that is.