Gypsiyee wrote:One thing you have to remember is that everything isn't going to turn out exactly how you expect it to. Try as you might, something will probably be less than perfect.
Take it in stride and try not to stress yourself out about it =) Whether something is flawed or not, you're still marrying the man you love and it isn't going to matter if the cake was lopsided in 20 years!
I want to see pictures, obviously - especially a few of Laura in a girly dress! That's a thought I can't even imagine O_o
I'm not so worried about something going wrong as a cause of nature and Murphy's Law. I'm more worried about something going wrong because I was a total pinhead and screwed some aspect up royally or totally forgot something important. I actually had a dream were we went to sign the official papers beforehand and we had forgotten to go get a marriage license. It's frightening the number of wedding-catastrophe dreams I've had in the last couple months.
In fact it amazes how obsessed I am about this wedding. When we got engaged I didn't care about anything. My only requirements were that I had a dress that I adored but wasn't a typical wedding gown, and that the ceremony and reception had to be at the same spot so people wouldn't have to commute from one to the other. That's just cruel to out-of-towners.
As time progressed though, I all of a sudden found myself compulsively worrying which orange colour of personalized ribbon for the favor boxes matched the exact hue of the flowers I had chosen. Is the orange in the flowers closer to melon or mandarin or apricot?
Like, who the fuck is this stressed-out girly-girl bride-to-be? It can't be me... it can't be... but it is. Thus is life.
As for girly dresses, I had this horrible and evil inclination to email Laura a picture of the pinkest, ruffliest, poofiest dress I could find and tell her that was the dress and wait for her reaction. In actually, I was quite kind. I picked simple, black, strapless dresses with a light silver tie at the waist. Not too bad I don't think, but then again I'm sure every bride erroneously thinks the dresses she picked are nice.
I'll definitely share the pictures... probably not on NT but I'll either give you the webpage URL or email you some. Poor Laura...