Weddingbee Blog

A little unexpected something or other occurred that’s really kind of, well, a giant pain in the ass. So, in true Zebra fashion, I want you to learn from this mistake, because garsh darnit, changing your email address three months before your wedding sucks ass.

YEAH EMAIL! STOP IT.

You see, it’s my fault really. I’ve been begging my parents to get accustomed to computers for quite some time now. With the creation of my blog, my mom started to use the internet on her dinosaur of a PC to keep up with my wedding ramblings. Then the telephone calls started…

What’s this Mac-a-fee thingy that is on my screen?

What’s my email address?

How do I get to such and such a website?

My personal favorite is when my father called me…

“Zeebs, ummm, I’m trying to get on this uh website. It’s ummmm called…You Tube?”

So yes, I knew it was only a matter of time before my mother realized just how out of date her computer was. It’s not fast enough. I thought it was a perfect beginner’s speed but I was not in the same company for long. So, my siblings and I went in on a nice laptop for them for Christmas. We’ve had our Verizon coverage for a long long LONG time. I’m talking modem hooked into the phone line, long.

Can you tell where this is going? My mother wants to switch internet carriers, and to make a long story (sorta) short…the email address I’ve been using as my primary for nearly 10 years is being deleted. Read deeper between the lines. This is the digital age—all my wedding correspondance has been online.

Every single last one of our vendors needs to be notified of my email address change. It’s crucial time too. It’s meetings and contract reviewing and all that good stuff time. But that is only the tip of the iceberg…

I’ve had to forward two years worth of wedding emails to my other addresses. Which is just peachy because identifying them when they are all sent from me is rather difficult. GAH!

I’ve had to notify all of the websites who send my forgotten password to the Verizon email that they need to send those forget-me-nots on over to another email address: banking, college loans, alumni associations, travel clubs, members-only websites, registries, Twitter, Netflix, EVERYTHING!

It’s been a huge time suck. Don’t let me fool you though. I waited until the last minute to do it. Stupid. I’m having a hard time parting with my old email. It’s a sad day, an end of an era. Boo hoo.

So… in order to make YOUR life easier might I suggest something? When you have important emails that you’ll always need, like say your vendor communications or all your threads talking about the shower you are planning for your best friend…use a free email address like Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail… whatever. After losing my college email, my AOL email, and now my Verizon, I have finally, finally learned my lesson.