wedding overload

wedding planning has officially overtaken my brain. it is all i think about lately. 

for example:

i passed by a large replica of the Constitution in my law school atrium, and immediately wondered who wrote it and more importantly, if i could pay them to address my invitations with their elegant handwriting. 

every time i go to a married friend’s house now, i check the bottoms of her plates and cups to see what brand they are- so that i can go update my registries with the new items that i saw/liked.

i dream about our wedding day at least twice a week. 

my day at work consists of- emailing my mom about new wedding ideas, emailing erik about shower dates and tux options, googling all things “bridal” and “wedding”, shopping online for bathing suits for our honeymoon, and g-chatting my maid of honor about upcoming bachelorette party plans. tough job.

whenever a slow song comes on my ipod or radio, i intently listen to the words to decide if it could possibly be used during the ceremony or as our first dance. 

….i need a break! luckily, i am home for the week and have been able to get some stuff done- with some free time left this trip so that i can spend some time with my two pregnant friends and *hopefully* get to see my nephew in person!?

registering

i always thought that registering would be one of the highlights of being engaged. picking out all new dishes, bedding, accessories, utensils…a girl’s dream, right? not so much for me…for several reasons. 

a) i am terribly indecisive, and the fact that there are about a million salad plate options alone makes my head want to explode.

b) the long distance factor-since we are having to do tons of wedding stuff the few weekends we are actually together, we’ve barely have time to go pick stuff out. 

c) i do NOT have a knack for decorating (or even knowing what colors go together) so the stuff that i have picked out probably is going to look horrendous next to each other- at least that’s my fear.

last week, i had to register at one last store and E couldn’t go, so mom volunteered to come along with me. It was both a brilliant idea and a disaster all at once. brilliant, because she DOES have the gift of decorating, and told me- very frankly- that the items i had chosen to go together were just not going to work. a disaster (at the time) because she wouldn’t let me register for over half the items that i was convinced that i really needed (that i probably would have chosen had i gone with E). although, i am fairly certain i will thank her for that when i actually get the things i really wanted, instead of that random air purifier that E randomly scanned behind my back a few weeks ago. i will never understand the infatuation between boys and those scanners. but anyway, i ended up picking alot of things that i really really want, which means i now have to go and fix my registries at the other stores that have completely different color schemes. whoopie. 

oh, and one piece of wisdom to other soon-to-be brides out there….Bed, Bath, and Beyond no longer gives you cash back for your returns. i found that out after we had spent at least half our day in there registering for every item in the store in hopes that we would get it and could later return it, thus becoming millionaires. oh well.