Sound of the wheels turning
I guess 'soon' is a rather relative term... But yeah, sorry it's been a while. To be honest, not that much has been happening in the meanwhile however. I guess we've been stuck in this winter hibernation mode for a couple of months now where the summer and the wedding seemed like light years ahead. I also suffered a bad spout of 'wedding angst' at the start of the year, so much so that I was seriously wondering if it would be worth all the panicking. I just got to thinking how I swore that if I ever got married again I would do it privately, somewhere on a beach far far away. That it would be a day just for us and not a 'show' for other people... That resulted in a bit of a slashing to the guest list and a firm decision on actually just having the ceremony at the register office instead of at the reception venue (like some people were trying to persuade us to do). And in the end I did come to the conclusion that, yes, I want to share the day with the people closest to me, but no, it won't be a stuffy 'weddingy' wedding but rather a laid back party.
I think most people already know that we've pushed the road trip into next year, as we decided to relocate back to the UK this year instead. I'm hoping we could afford to go on a little two- or three-night city break somewhere after the wedding though, just to get a bit of a sense of a honeymoon this year. Although when the road trip actually happens, it *will* be the ultimate pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, so to speak.
Realising that it's only four short months until the wedding, I had to seriously start moving things along. The place to start was making the invites. We got as far as getting the text down (two different languages, four different versions - it wasn't easy!) with Stu, but after having printed all the materials out, I really wouldn't have managed to finish all the compiling of the invites without Susanna. She is a whizz with scissors and tape!
All in all, she's really been an all around perfect Maid of Honour. She's scarily organised, with notebooks full of plans and tabs and lists, which put me to shame. Although having seen all her preparation did give me the kick I needed to get a bit more on the ball myself. So now we have matching wedding notebooks that are filling steadily. :D
I should really do a whole entry of its own about her and the Hen Night she'd been organising for me. It's going to be so much fun! (And I seriously never thought I'd feel that way about a hen night...)
Anyways, today I checked the invites one last time, closed the envelopes with a heart sticker (see, I'm classy like that :P) and glued stamps on all of them. I ordered these special stamps that have a picture of our engagement rings on them. Although, there weren't quite enough of them for every invite, so some will receive just ordinarily stamped envelopes... sorry about that. It just wasn't cost effective to order 20 more stamps for the 5 or so left over invites.
I think I'll mail the invites at the start of next week. It's quite early I suppose, but then again the wedding is in the middle of holiday season *and* on a friday night, so I want people to have enough time to get organised.
I guess that's it then as far as throwing a wedding party is concerned. Once the invites are in the post, there's no turning back. :)
