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Now that I’ve shamelessly milked you for your music suggestions for our wedding video, I thought it was only fair that I returned the favor and posted the playlist and do-not-play list that Mr. DD and I used for our wedding.

This is when you start to realize just how big of a procrastinator I really am.

The nine months that Mr. DD and I were engaged were quite the time of transition for me. For one thing, I had a few identity-related issues surrounding getting married that I needed to deal with.

But I thought I was done with transitioning by the time our wedding day rolled around. Marriage wasn’t really supposed to change anything, right? Weren’t we already in a committed…

Don’t tell my mom I admitted this, but I totally have a habit of biting off waaaay more than I can chew.

And this is how I found myself knee-deep in a food favor making project less than a week before our  wedding.

Honestly, I don’t think I ever considered not having homemade sweets as favors. It was the one thing I was never indecisive about. Okay, maybe…

So you might remember that I was really conflicted about my wedding dress. On one hand, it was exactly what I wanted in a dress, and, on the other hand, it put a little more cleavage on display than I wanted it to.

Okay, so you totally don’t remember, but here are a few posts to get you up to speed: Part 1, Part 2, and…

I spent a lot of time thinking about music before our wedding. The ceremony music alone took up, oh, a good couple of months of thought process. Our rehearsal dinner required its own fairly lengthy soundtrack. And then there was the playlist and do not play list. Um, yeah, I thought about those for so long that I was frantically finalizing those the morning before…

Yup. That’s me. Mrs. Dew Drop, wedding blogging procrastinator extraordinaire.

But a little sympathy, please—it’s kind of tough taking this big, emotional, life-altering event and reducing it all to writing. It’s been almost two months after the wedding, and I’m still not sure what to say.

You see, I really wish I could tell you that the lead up to the wedding was perfect. Or at least…

So, say you have some wrapping paper, like so:

And you are wondering what to do with it.

You should probably acquire some small black frames from Target:

Mr. DD’s favorite food is cheese, and mine is ice cream.

Yes, we’re very pro-dairy around the Dew Drop household.

Clearly we needed to incorporate our love of dairy products into our wedding. But how? We briefly considered just tying a cow outside the venue door, but, of course, I was concerned about the cow clashing with our theme and colors. It’s wrong to paint a cow turquoise and gold, right?

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

Okay, it wasn’t really like that. Let me start over.

Not too long ago while slouched over on the sectional in the living room, I decided to get my act together and figure out what kind of flowers I wanted for the wedding. Well, I already knew I wanted ruffly flowers, but that was about it. I…

Remember where we left off in my wedding dress story?

I had bought a dress that I thought I wanted, and I was left waiting it for it to come in. Yeah, the dress was a little lower at the neckline than I preferred, but I convinced myself that this would be less of an issue in a dress that fit me properly. (The sample dress…

Back in April, I paid a visit to sunny (but decidedly not hypoallergenic) Coppell, Texas. I was there paying a spur of the moment visit to my flower girl Z (and, okay, the rest of her family, too). Z was very anxious to talk to me about what her “little dress” would look like. She thought it should have butterflies on it.

I wasn’t quite sure of my ability to find a flower girl dress with butterflies on it, so I convinced her that petals were just as good.

This is a story about the importance of paper.

There was an invitation I liked:

I saw it on a website. I ordered a sample. It seemed to take a while, but one day it arrived in the mail. I liked the look of it in person, the feel of the raised lettering. I showed it to Mr. DD. He held it in his hands and looked…

So here’s how I remember it.

One day I was minding my own business; the next day complete obsession had set in.

I had become a bona-fide Flickr stalker.

It all started when we had our engagement shoot with our super talented photographer Erica Berger. A day or so later, I saw on Facebook that Erica had posted some of our pictures on her Flickr stream. I scrambled…

So… you want to be an expert procrastinator like me?

Here’s my 12-step plan for sending out wedding save the dates:

Step 1: Look online for ready-made save the dates. Decide none of them will work. Inform your fiance that you’re going to make your own!

Step 2: Look online for inspiration on making your own save the dates. Repeat this step frequently until you’re completely confused about what you…

Back in April, Mr. DD and I had a week where we found ourselves completely over wedding planning. Note that I didn’t say completely over with wedding planning. We had just been working hard to knock a few wedding tasks off our ever-growing list, and this, coupled with work stress and moving (and a lot of swearing and vowing to hire professional movers next time), had…