Weddingbee Blog

OK, um what just happened here? How is it that we are now just SEVEN SLEEPS away from leaving for Punta Cana for our wedding? Did I unknowingly step into a time warp and–OMG!!–it must have been all my radioactiveness! It caused me to flash-forward à la Lost Season 4!!! (Oops sorry, too late for a spoiler alert?)

Oh alright, ha ha not funny. You might be thinking this is going to be one of those ‘oh-my-gawd-I’m-so-stressed-out!’ pre-wedding posts and honestly, if I had written it before last weekend, it definitely would have been.

In fact, I was so on edge, my boss presented me with a hand-made coupon book:

(And yes, that IS me in the photo on the cover holding chocolate eyeballs to my face… if ever anyone doubted how wacked-out I’ve been the past while, here is your evidence.)

There were all sorts of awesomeness in it like:

Do I have the best boss evah or what? I have to say, I’ve used #4 a few times now but I’m saving #5 for a really REALLY bad day, heh.

Everyone in my office was teasing me about my stressed out scatterbrained-ness. But then something weird happened.

Mr Breezy and I flew five hours to Montreal this past weekend for some action packed Hallow-wedding celebrations. And the decor was stunning, the food was to die for, the music amazing and the whole shebang scrupulously planned to the last lovely detail… but you know what I can’t stop thinking about? How fabulously AWESOME it was… simply to spend some time with our friends! We had enormous amounts of fun just hanging out, laughing, dancing and, of course, marveling at everyone’s costumes.

Me with my personal faves, the couple from ‘Juno’

And it hit me: our wedding will be just like that! Well okay, minus the costume part (I hope).

Because that’s what it’s about. That’s what I put on our wedding invitations months ago when this week seemed eons away:

Please join us for a celebration of FAMILY, FRIENDS, LAUGHTER & LOVE.

It was as good as a self-smack to the face.

So yeah, sure… we are seven sleeps away and I have not yet received our shipment of favors, written our ceremony, created a welcome letter for our guests, picked a first dance song, made my veil, loaded the iPod up with music, found ribbon for our bouquets, sent the photographer our wish-list of shots and oh, probably about ten other things.

But I am oddly (almost scarily) feeling pretty Zen at the moment. The most important part (other than marrying Mr Breezy, natch) is being there with our family and friends and that is one thing that I can check off my to-do list with gusto. Done, done and DONE. The rest of it? Somehow it’ll all come together. And no one will judge me if it doesn’t.

I’m hoping this calmness isn’t some trick of my evil mind, like a calm before the storm or something. I could have just plum run out of stress hormones—running on empty? Or maybe I reached that point-of-no-return. Whatever it is, I hope it lasts for just a few more days ’til we leave. So does my boss.

The week before your wedding, were you stressed to the max or was there a moment where you finally slipped into Zen mode? How did your friends/family/coworkers help you deal with your stress?