Weddingbee Blog

Hello, hive! Did you miss me? Did you wonder where I was?

I was in CRAZY BRIDE TOWN. And now I am back. And by back, I mean poking my head in to say hello to the people who faithfully visit me on the interwebs. Hello!

So here’s what’s happening, guys: the little countdown ticker dude on the side of my webpage is counting down. It’s a stubborn little thing, but luckily I caught on a few weeks ago that it was counting down ’til midnight on the day before our wedding, so it appeared to be a day ahead of time. I’m glad I realized that when I did because otherwise I would be FREAKING OUT right now. Not that I’m not already.

So here’s what is happening:

1. I got my hair flower. It is amazing!

My flower, made by a fellow bee!

I love it so very much, and try it on at inappropriate times. Hair flower drama: I thought I would wear it on the right side of my head, but now I have to wear it on the left, because it turns out Fancee always hugs me on my right side, and the flower would scratch her face. Oh, the decisions and compromises we make!

2. My suit, nearly perfect, disappeared in the mail on its way back to MacheteNSons for final alterations. It appears that it spent 7 days sitting in a processing facility in Denver, CO, and is now making its way through Des Moines, IA back to me. They never received it. But GET THIS! Well, before you get this, let me tell you that if you ever need a suit, you must get it from AJ and Lianna. They are amazing. Here is what you must get: they are making me a new suit, from scratch, RIGHT NOW. And then they will overnight it to me. Seriously, folks, this is the best customer service I have ever gotten, ever, not to mention a really nice suit. Go buy yourself something nice.

3. I had a bachelorette party. There will be an entire post about this sometime soon, but in the meantime, here is a scene from Sunday: my father is at our house, watching football, and I am more or less passed out on the couch, possibly hungover, but probably still drunk from the night before. Fancee walks in, looks around at the man in our house, the football game on the television, and the post-partier on the couch, declares, “This is not my life!” and walks out. Hilarious. Also, her mom cleaned up my vomit. If that isn’t a big ol’ “Welcome to the family, we really love you!” I just don’t know what is.

4. We, um, finished our ketubah/marriage certificate text. And that happened about an hour ago. And now we are in a desperate search to find somewhere that can make it look pretty on nice paper by Friday. Does such a place exist? Do you have graphic design skills and want to help us? Just kidding. Sort of. We have a backup plan, which we can totally enact in the next three and a half days.

5. My vows make me cry, and I’m only reading them to myself, in my head. My dress has pockets for tissues. Yay, good decision-making!

In a week, this will be our view, and we will be married, and it will be wonderful:

View from our future honeymoon locale! Source

Thank you all for reading, and sorry for the absence… but ZOMG. 5 days! Or 4, if you read this at a reasonable hour. Strangely, or maybe not strangely, I am feeling both crazy stressed out and very calm at the same time. Not sure how that works.

Leave me your words of wisdom, your secrets to inner peace, and the contact info for your favorite graphic designer! And remember, dear readers: it is all going to be wonderful, even if it’s not what you had planned 10 months ago. What are you letting go of (like a fancy ketubah thing?) and holding onto (desperately gripping ’til your knuckles are white is really what I mean)?