hello lovahs. only 151 days until our wedding!
even with so much of the big stuff done, i'm amazed at the amount left to do. there is quite a bit of planning to this whole "wedding" thing. i'd never considered what it would be like to decorate a day for myself (i love that phrase) and i am learning it is quite bi-polar. there are decisions that hurtle you into complete mania - date, budget, food, budget, venue, budget, size, and of course, budget - and dizzy your mind with doubt and indecision. but then you plummet back to waiting...and waiting...and waiting. i believe this is the hardest for me...just twiddling my thumbs and daydreaming without taking any action. but oh what fun it is to dream! you can browse and peruse and linger to your heart's content...if you can ever slow your hands down enough to do so. i've found i'm incapable of jogging in more ways than one - it's either a stroll or a sprint.
i spent the first two weeks of my engagement spinning at a break-neck pace, and now i'm learning to savor. as lucinda said, this is the only time in our life we get to be engaged...enjoy it! and most wonderful of all, things keep moving along at a splendid pace! two exciting things happened in the past few days.....
first - invitations.
we received the first proofs on friday, made our edits and resubmitted them in about 5 minutes. who's indecisive?! the final proofs came on monday night...and are lovely. they should be arriving by the end of the month. to keep my mind mellow and my hands busy, i'm going to attempt to address all the envelopes myself. it's been about a decade since i've done any calligraphy, but i'm very excited to be hand on in this way. it may be small, but it's special.
second - dress!
i was typing my little heart away at work today when my phone rang - 513 area code. having no idea whereabouts 513 was from (but having received many, many pressing phone calls as of late) i answered. and i was shocked to hear the tailor for wendy's cincinnati bride tell me my dress had arrived. (whaaaaa?!) surely you can't be serious, thought i! i am serious...and stop calling me shirley, she replied (not really, but it would've been epic!) my dress has come in 4 MONTHS EARLY! it turns out they had it in my size somewhere out there, to my sheer delight. i'm going down for my first fitting in two and a half weeks when my mom is visiting. she couldn't be there for the trying-on experience, so i'm thrilled she can be there the first time i try on MY dress, not the sample.
another scrumptious bit - my dress has a twin! when i was taking off the sample after saying "yes" to the dress, another consultant asked mine if she could steal the sample from her when it was off of me. after dressing, i went out to see this darling girl in the dress who, after having seen me in it, wanted to try it on herself. (sandra said then that i looked so good in the dress, i sold it to others too...what a bosom bud!) i told her she looked fantastic in it, and sandra and i were curious as to her final decision. well, that day she said yes to the same dress...my dress! (it is forever fixed that way in my head...after all, i was in it first.) so they were ordered together, they came in together and they will be on beautiful brides very much NOT together.
when i write here, i feel all the felicity in the world. i'm swept away in the romance of the whole affair and feel like i'm living in a dream. but that wiley little satan is working my weaknesses to the extreme, so please keep me in your prayers...and paul. he's doing wonderfully in school...just trounced everyone in a whatsit-ology test. i'm so proud of him...he's so faithful and true, and i admire that so much.
i love you. can we please talk this weekend? for realsies.
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