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We have just a few more days of quiet before the wedding week begins. Family starts coming in on Saturday, and thus starts the kick off for the BIG DAY. We're trying to semi take it easy, but also made it our personal goal to finish every single thing pertaining to preparation for the wedding by Friday. According to my good friend Julie (married 3 years), that isn't going to happen. She's probably right.
The marriage license is signed. My last dress fitting was Monday, Nick's decided on his wedding day tie and bought his backup to his backup shirt. The guest room in our house is now serving as storage for everything we need to have for the wedding week. It's looking a little crazy.
Nick is now at the point where he is thinking past the wedding day and all about the honeymoon. Can't wait to get a good night's sleep then.
Started taking vitamins to prevent getting sick...but my throat's been tingling x 1 1/2 days now. Lovely.
An FYI to our female guests- bring a shawl! The weather here in LA has not been anything like the weather in the east or midwest. We will rent heat lamps, but come prepared.
Off to continue watching Teen Nick's the 90s are All That!
Well, two weeks y'all!
Our excitement is taking over. Can't you tell by my use of wedding colors???
It is definitely safe to say THE BIG DAY anticipation is building. So far there have been two days this week when I have not slept well because I'm constantly thinking about last minute wedding-y things. My desire to take on a million tasks is both enjoyable and slightly stressful. I guess it's eustress? On a walk with the dogs the other day we both confessed that we're feeling a bit nervous- not about getting married, but about the minor things we still seem to need to do. Really there isn't much left, but it feels like there are umpteen things to do. I love my sleep, and I am not a fan of opening my eyes, suddenly wide awake, looking at the clock and seeing that it reads 2:39. Screw you, internal clock telling me I shouldn't be sleeping. Screw. You. And not in the enjoyable way.
Nick helped me finish the wedding programs (don't you just love the idea of tying 120 bows? Doesn't it make you just go ooooo?) I had fun yesterday buying goodies you will see as part of the whole wedding experience. I went to a Jewish bakery to ask about challah, and we might need something larger than a sedan to transport what we have in mind.
Somehow we seem to have taken care of non-dire aspects of the wedding, and didn't really come up with wedding music ideas until this week (or at least I didn't). And we love music! Fail.
Tomorrow we have a woman coming to the house to bring our marriage license paperwork. Our coordinator told us about the long and hideous process of applying via the LA Courthouse + finding a notary, and we decided that idea sucked. So instead this woman will come to us, bring everything, and is a notary! Thus comes to the next major decision...
What will my new name be? Duh duh duhhhhhhh (visualize the man with curly mustache drumming his fingers together, looking both thoughtful and mysterious). But you know...Kelly minus the masculine features.
At last! We're in the home stretch of this whole wedding thing! I must say, Nick and I are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ready for the wedding day to just be here!
Our photographer Aileen emailed us the link to view our engagement photos, and there are a ton of them. It took some time to click through each photo, but we are happy to have some winners in the bunch.
Last night we met with our florist Inna of Butterfly Florals and saw a sample set up of the arrangements. They look great! We've hashed out the last minute details with Inna and then had our meeting with Amber, our wedding coordinator. She cheerily gave us numerous forms we now have to think about (name changing instruction, how to apply for a marriage license, etc). LA County apparently makes it rather difficult to go through the whole marriage license process. While I've felt pretty okay about the wedding day itself, we definitely started to feel the "whhhaat??" part when she broke down the entire wedding day, hour by hour. Basically, I need to be at the wedding site at 12 noon. The wedding doesn't even start until 6. By the time I arrive at noon, my hair should already be done. I should be eating a little after 12 at the wedding site. Makeup fits in somewhere...Nick is supposed to arrive by 3 so we can have our couple photos taken at 3:30, and the rest of the bridal party and some family need to arrive by 4:30 or so for more photos. While I'm still happy to have the wedding in August and outside, I honestly didn't think I would need to be dressed in full wedding garb outside in LA at 3. Is there any sort of sweat sucking injection I can use? Yikes.
We've received most of the RSVPs- thank you! One of our many new tasks- seating chart...
Nick and I started researching wedding program wording, and I started the programs yesterday. We also need to figure out the wedding reception song...who has a song that is "their song" nowadays?
What else...I had my second dress fitting today, and it's looking great! Last fitting is in a few weeks...on Saturday we meet with Rabbi Jim again to discuss more ceremony details.
That probably isn't everything, but my mind is slightly frazzled with all of the last few things we need to knock out...August 6th, we are so looking forward to seeing you. August 5th too, because the rehearsal dinner should be great too :-)
Can't wait to see everybody!!!
Also, the copyright info didn't show up on the photo I posted...Aileen Secord of Aileen Secord Photography took this photo, and I love it! Thanks Aileen!
