Welcome to Crazy Town
That’s it. We’re getting married on the front porch (Chuck has already graciously offered to get one of those online certificates so he can perform the ceremony) and having the reception at Ms. Mae’s. We’ll even offer to pick up the tab for everyone’s $1 drinks. I can’t see any other way this is gonna work.
Both Ide and Melia have blogged recently about feeling crazy and overwhelmed, and I’d like to join that party… especially if that party has wine. I realized today that we’re getting married in four months. Four freaking months! Lately, I’ve been working until the wee hours of the morning and drinking coffee like it’s going out of style. I don’t really have the energy to feed myself (thank you, Reginelli’s delivery man)
or unpack my evacuation suitcase, let alone research florists or learn about sin in our pre-cana class.
So instead, I make to-do lists. Lots and lots of to-do lists. I have Google docs, Excel spreadsheets, ta-da lists, scraps of paper stuffed in my purse. I’m the crazy cat lady of to-do lists.
Just a few items:
- Find a damn printer by next week
- Reserve the Yat cake lady we love so much
- Register for the “set it and forget it.” And maybe a few other things.
- Research remaining vendors: DJ, florist, transportation, people to make us prettier than we already are
- Write “our story” for the Web site in a non-gross way
- Get an extension on pre-cana class (play the deployment card)
- Call Archdiocese re: importing a priest from out of state
- Go swimming enough to make up for my week in Jackson and Chicago (read: spending time with my favorite bad influences)
- Watch late-night TNT while making more to-do lists I won’t complete
I make Sarah Palin look sane. Actually, now that I think about it, all this organizational experience might qualify me for vice president.
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[…] That’s it. We’re getting married on the front porch (Chuck has already graciously offered to get one of those online certificates so he can perform the ceremony) and having the reception at Ms. Mae’s. We’ll even offer to pick up the tab for everyone’s $1 drinks. I can’t see any other way this is gonna work. Both Ide and Melia have blogged recently about feeling crazy and overwhelmed, and I’d like to join that party… especially if that party has wine. I realized today that we’re getting married Source: http://no-dowry.com/?p=60 […]
I’d vote for you as VP anyday!
Oh, just send out an evite. It’ll reduce your carbon footprint. Or something.
As far as flowers go, they die anyway so don’t waste a lot of time on them. Just make sure you get the ones you want delivered to a florist in NOLA. I wrote an EHow.com on making bouquets a few weeks ago and, lemme tell ya it’s soooo not hard. Gimme a bottle of wine and some florist wire and I’ll whip those suckers out in two hours flat. We made those leis for graduation, so I think this will be a breeze.
You can totally get through the whole pre-cana course in an afternoon. I took an online Catholicism course in college once and completed the entire semester in six hours. Just remember that the Jesus and babies are good, but sex is very, very bad. Until you’re married and need to make babies for the Jesus.
You do have to hire transportation, there’s no way around that. It’s safe to say that I won’t be in any condition to drive a Hotard bus. And I’m pretty sure our college standard of “let’s just make Darren drive” won’t work out too well here, either.
P.S. PLEASE hire a Hotard bus!
Thanks, Mark! I’ll make you my Secretary of State and you can turn things around.
Ide, you are so wise. I’ve totally been thinking we’ll do our own flowers– really it’s only the bouquets we need to do. Throw a couple of roses in a bunch and call it a day. Way easier than those leis we made while watching “Crossroads” the night before graduation. For the tables, we were talking about having candles and rose petals if we’re feeling fancy. I honestly never notice flowers that much anyway– certainly not enough to pay thousands of dollars for them.
How about you do my pre-cana class FOR me? You are obviously an expert on Jesus and babies.
OMG, I didn’t even THINK of getting a Hotard bus. Oh, the wedding pictures we could take in front of it… Brilliant.
Why, I DO know a lot about Jesus and babies. Thanks, St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Workhouse! Er…school. I would totally take your class for you, but I don’t want to compromise your standing with the pope. He might strike you down with a single glare. He’s like God, only here.
We really should do our own bouquets. That would be so much fun, and we can have our super-perfectionist buddies tie the bows and stuff (ehem…Kaila…cough, cough). If we wait until 15 minutes before the ceremony, the photographer’s gonna get some awesome action shots.
I could have written this post myself, swapping out wedding stuff for Reschool Yourself stuff.
I would also add: “Instead of doing the things on my countless To-Do lists, I eat bunches of chocolate covered pretzels and give other people advice on getting their stuff done.”
We need to catch up and give each other some “You’re not the only one who’s crazy and overwhelmed” girl therapy.
You def need to add a few things:
1 Buy sexy lingerie
2 get friends to send you champagne for all your hardwork planning them a party
3 go to fancy dior or chanel and find the perfect new LIPSTICK and start practicing wearing it now.
4 flowers = glass bowl, sumberged roses, floating candle. Ta dah
Also, buy a shit ton of disposable cameras and hand them out. Those always turn out hilarious ; )