Reality Sinks In…
February 12th, 2008 @ 1:28 pm by Mrs. Penguin
Hey you guys guess what? I’m getting married!
You knew that, right? We’ll this past week, the reality of it all sunk in for me… I’m really getting married!
Picking a venue, designing invitations, floral decisions, cake tastings, even buying a dress. These were all very important components of the “wedding process,” but for some reason I took it in stride. All these tasks were really just fun and fluffy things for me to do.
Yesterday marked the day that I OFFICIALLY realized that I was getting married. I know that may sound silly, but something in my mind clicked, and it became clear that if I didn’t start steamrolling into “serious planning” mode, then this wedding would just be a mess of good ideas and no execution. I panicked, and checked 10 things off my list yesterday from booking the buses for our guests to ordering the final elements of our invitation sets. This week we also set the date for my shower and bachelorette parties. Girls are already booking flights to Vegas. This is pure MADNESS! And, just to top it off, we received our first wedding gift off of our registry, and it’s only February!
Only four short months to go now!
Have you reached your “This is REALLY happening!” moment yet? How close to your wedding date did reality sink in for you?
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25 Responses to “Reality Sinks In…”
I would say it hit me about 2 weeks ago when I had a nervous breakdown of all the TO DO’s I still had left…all the crazy loose ends and the non-stop nagging from my parents….yeah that was when I realized I will be so happy about the day after! Oh and with less then 6 weeks to go, my FI reminds me every day with his, “OMG, I only have X number of days left of freedom.” Meanwhile I’m counting down the number of paychecks we have to pay for all this! =)
Haha Miss penguin, this happened this week for ME too!! I have 3 months to go, and it sounds silly saying it to other people because they DON’T GET IT. It’s like “duh, yeah you’re getting married!” Meanwhile you are just excited and ecstatic that it’s REALLY happening:)Nice to see I’m not the only one.
It happened to us maybe 2 weeks ago, and we’ve just been plowing through things since then.
Haha… Mine might be TMI… My moment was about 2.5 months out from the wedding.
A couple weeks ago, my obgyn asked if I wanted to get started on pre-natal vitamins in case we wanted to, um, get started on the honeymoon. Yikes! I’m really getting married - people are asking about babies! 
Reality is beginning to hit me and I’m still ten months out. It started on Sunday during a marathon phone conversation with one of my good friends who is also getting married this year. At one point during the conversation I stopped breathing a bit and said, “Oh my God. We’re getting married.” She laughed and said, “I know! Crazy, isn’t it!?”
Mine happened Saturday as we were getting ready for my bridal shower. I’m also 4 months out and starting to get a little anxious! But it has made me get more serious. I got home and contacted a makeup artist right away!
Congrats on the Reality Check - soon you’re going to marry your very own Mr. Right!! 
Just remember that - you know, aside from the laundry list of daunting tasks.
wow, your post is describing us! we’re getting married the last weekend in may and it really hit us this past weekend how little time we have left. i’ve spent the last few days emailing potential makeup artists, day of coordinators, and djs. it’s really time for me to stop collecting inspiration pictures and figure out what we actually want for our wedding!
I’m also getting married in June and I think it didn’t hit me that I was really, truly, getting married until friends and family started booking their flights to our wedding and my bridesmaids bought their dresses (like, last week)! There’s no backing out now!
I get married on 22nd Feb and my batchelorette party (we call them hen parties here) is on Saturday. It just seems really weird that everything that I’ve been planning for so long is finally happening!
Hooray for the Hen Party! One of my BM’s got married in England so I had the pleasure of attending a Hen Party in London
Totally had that feeling too, during the holidays when we went home and knocked out a bunch of wedding-related stuff. We were just leaving our venue after meeting with the coordinator to check out a bunch of wedding set ups (3 weddings that day!), and I was like, We’re getting married! Here! in a few months! Suddenly I thought of it in terms of why we’re doing all of it (because we love each other and want to tell the world), rather than just an endless list of tasks that we have to accomplish. It’s nice to have that reminder every once in a while!
I’ve been married for 5 mnths and I still don’t think it’s hit me! =)
I wonder whether it has really hit me yet… it took me nearly a month to get my head around the idea we were engaged!
Friends booking flights, booking honeymoon plans… and next week I think that placing the invitation order with be REALITY. That’s when I’ll know that the wedding is happening and we’ll be married! We already use “wife” and “husband” labels so that’s not a big deal.
AND this week we each received our respective pre-wedding party invites… I got my shower invite from my sister/aunt and he got an invite from his Best Man for a bachelor event. Yes, I’m impressed that the BM actually made invites - just when you thought groomsmen were lame and communicated with grunts.
10 days before the wedding, I realized I am getting MARRIED. That is, it’s not just some big party I’ve been planning for a year; the ceremony isn’t just some sort of performance where everyone needs to know their music cues and their lines and where they should stand. I am getting married. I am going to be someone’s WIFE.
I’ve got five days to go…..
I have 11 days to go and It hit me on saturday at the bridal shower. I started to cry because I really am going to marry the man I love so so much!
Reality hit around 4 months out too! Well, the reality of “I still have a lot to plan!”
I got hit last month at the six month mark - aghh!!! My friends now call me “Crazy”.
Haha… I love your post girlie!! The “reality” didn’t hit me until this month…. and my wedding is one month away! I don’t know if it has to do with a long (1 and 1/2 years) engagement because we were planning a little by little every month, so all the main/important things (like ceremony site, reception, photographers, etc.) were all planned well in advaced. So the reality hasn’t really sink in even at the 6 months mark. (I don’t know if this make sense?!) Anyhow, now that we past the scary 1 month mark… we are finalizing all the little details like the table names, the escort cards, etc and they just really hits me “Gosh! I AM GETTING MARRIED IN LESS THAN 1 MONTH!” =)
this is sooo true! i dont think that real TRUE reality has set in for me yet bc our wedding isn’t until November.
but everyone and a while, i will get hit with
“I am getting married!”
none of my friends get it (single). they just say “yeah, I know” 
so glad someone “gets it”!
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haha, i had that moment this week too!! we were meeting our pastor to finalize all the details, and we picked our vows/service… when i was reading through the different vow wordings, i suddenly started realizing “oh my goodness… OH MY GOODNESS! we’re getting married!! i have to walk down the aisle!! i have to say stuff in front of people!!”
my best friend laughed when i told her i freaked out, because she had noticed i was remarkably calm, and she was waiting for it to happen… heh. the whole marriage thing doesn’t worry me… it’s the wedding part of it!
Mrs. Penguin, Sacramento
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Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
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That moment hit me somewhere between the vineyard where my FI proposed and the place we were getting our couples massages done. I literally started hyperventalating. You would think that a nice massage would be the ticket to fixing my breathing problem…but It really wasnt. I couldnt relax the whole time…and my heart was beating 50000 miles per minuet. Eventually it got better, but I really wish I could get a massage do over. I dont even rememeber it. I jusr remember thinking “IM GETTING MARRIED! IM GETTING MARRIED!”