This might be one of those blogs that rambles a bit. My head is swimming with all the wedding stuff, plus extra busy-ness at work, and it’s hard to focus.
When I sat down to write this (like 20 minutes ago) I got all hung up on picking a title first. I don’t know why I do it that way, I just do. Jerrad (mostly) tolerates my blogging about everything, since that usually includes him, he just makes fun of me.
Like when I couldn’t come up with a title for the blog that was eventually “What Would Pat White Do?”. That one was hard because I was drunk, and really really mad about the game. As I was typing that one up, I observed out loud, “It’s hard to type when you’re drunk”. Jerrad says, “Maybe THAT should have been the title of your blog”. He was probably right, but I think I’ll save that one for later. Where was I?
Oh, I got hung up picking a title for this one, and for some reason, The Reluctant Bridegroom kept popping in to my head. And since I couldn’t remember what it was – book, movie – I googled it. I’ll save you the time, it’s both. Then I funnied it up with the “and” in the middle, since we both just want the wedding to be here already. I’m not even kidding.
Mostly because our plans changed about 6 weeks before the wedding, and also on account of our procrastination, I found myself a few weeks ago with an awful lot still left to do. Including important things like get my dress altered, decide for sure whether we wanted a photographer, figure out the transportation on the wedding day, and endless last-minute and “day of” details.
After the fourth night in a row of bad wedding dreams – you know, where it’s time to walk down the aisle and you aren’t dressed yet, or the one where you meet your dad to walk down the aisle and he’s wearing sweatpants – I decided to stop procrastinating.
In the last two weeks, with the help of my mom and Jerrad, I’ve had my first dress fitting and scheduled all the follow-ups, made the final arrangements with the florist, applied for our marriage license, picked our readings, met with and paid the photographer, decided there is no way we are paying a couple hundred dollars for a limo we will be in for about 20 minutes, and finalized the honeymoon arrangements. Plus about a dozen other little details.
Even though there has been a lot to do, it has all fallen into place pretty easily. We found a good florist for a really reasonable price, and we definitely found the perfect photographer. She gives you the disc with all of the pictures, and also the rights to them. Then you can make prints of the ones you want, and they can be posted anywhere you want without violating copyrights or something. And she charges about two-thirds of what the other photographers charge.
I’m pretty sure she thinks we’re weird though. We met her Thursday morning, and were planning to get our marriage license right after that. I should also mention that the day before, I had informed Jerrad that we were going to repeat our vows, not just say “I do” during the ceremony. He was kind of pouty about that.
Anyway, as we were meeting with her, and she was probably already thinking we were the most unenthusiastic wedding couple ever, she asks how the plans are going. Jerrad says, “I really just want it to be over.”
The look on her face was priceless. In like a split second, you could see her face change from thinking he’s being sarcastic and funny, to realizing that he’s completely serious so she’s getting ready to aim at me a look that says, “umm, you’re seriously going to marry this guy?”. However before she could even completely get that look on her face, she sees me nodding vigorously in agreement, saying, “Seriously, we really just want it to get here and be over with already.”
After that, we went to the courthouse to apply for our marriage license. Now before you think that we aren’t excited to get married, you should know that I’ve also had plenty of moments where I get all giggly and say mushy things to him for no apparent reason. I have no idea why, but I got like that when we were walking into the courthouse. Why I got giddy about that, which is probably the most boring detail there is, but yet couldn’t muster up any excitement at all when we met with the photographer, is a mystery.
I’ve also been trying to add things to our registry so there are enough choices for people in different price ranges. This has been challenging because there really isn’t much we need. I’ve mostly been adding holiday things because I’m a big dork about the holidays.
I usually just announce the things I’m adding out loud to Jerrad as he plays his Xbox. Sometimes he interferes, like when he told me I couldn’t have the 12 Days of Christmas wineglasses because they were “retarded”.
They were not, they were totally cute. I might register for them anyway when he’s not looking.
