Wedding Meltdown #519

Saturday as I was sitting with my sister Amber and personal attendant Brittni I received a lovely email saying "8 more months!"

Just what I wanted to hear.

As the day went on I filed it away and tried not to think about it. Tony and I went on with our errands-burying ourselves into grocery shopping and getting little things for the house, dog, fish, yard etc. As all those "little" things added up, along with the constant reminder that my car is broken down, photographer mess and the haunting guest list-I started to have a mini panic attack on the drive home thinking about all of this. Tony immediately went into his motivational-we'll get it all figured out-we have plenty of time-you need to get excited-stop worrying-I'll take care of it-it'll all work out speech. This is why I love him.

During his little speech he mentioned that maybe if we did something fun like registering that it would get me excited. So, immediately after I calmed myself down I asked if we could go to Target and register. So, at 8:30pm we walked into Target ready for to register. Tony took the scanner first. I think he was more excited than I was. We only had an hour and a half before the store closed so it was a little rushed but we got through.

However.

When I got home, I wanted to take a look at our list to see what we added.

Problem #1-I could not log in to edit our list. At all. I could change my password. But I could not log in.

Problem #2-When I search for our registry, I am able to see it. Great. But it only lists probably half of the items we scanned. Awesome.

That excited bubble just popped.

Sunday I woke up ready to face the guest list head on. I headed over to the in-laws so my future mother-in-law could help me. I wasn't about to do this alone. She helped out a ton and kept me focused. After a few hours of sorting through the "guest list", "new guest list", "updated guest list" spreadsheets and figuring out what names we had and needed to add we finally had a grand total.

Are you ready for this?

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Total Wedding Guests (Wedding/Dinner)=232
Total Guests (Wedding + Reception) = 434
*give or take a few

I think I can finally breathe now.

Maybe now I can tackle this silly registry issue. Or possibly the photographer. One step at a time.

Friendly Reminders

I received yet another friendly email today regarding the wedding blog.

Fiiiiiine.

I think I've realized that I am really just trying to avoid all wedding stuff. I'm burnt out. I want a break.

And I don't really have a whole lot going on or that I NEED to work on. I just am not wanting to work on it.

Why?

Because I am throwing a pitty party for myself because I can't have the photographer I want.

Why?

Because I have expensive taste.

Why?

Because I am picky.

Ugh.

So I'm supposed to be finding a photographer. But I don't want to. I think I'm secretly hoping that this one photographer will magically lower their prices one of these days.

Again, a girl can dream.

I'd also like for our honeymoon to magically be decided. Do you know how many options one has for a honeymoon?? 

We received probably six different "pamphlets" from our travel agent. Inside these "pamphlets" are probably sixty pages with eight different resorts per page.

Awesome.

Soooo, because I'm throwing a tantrum I've started another blog. Non-wedding related. So. If you'd like to follow along on that one you can find it here. I'll continue to update the wedding blog as I work on wedding things. But sometimes a girl just needs a break from wedding stuff. Seriously. I don't even like typing that word right now.

Can someone point me in the direction of the courthouse??