don't read if you get overwhelmed with details easily!

All I have to say is, "wow."  Weddings are a LOT of details.  I am a detailed person, I always catch the little things and think about things people often overlook, but until this weekend I don't think I realized how many details are going into our wedding.  It has been a bit of a whirlwind weekend, starting Thursday night when I caught a red eye flight to Minneapolis.  I landed at 6 AM, got about 45 minutes of sleep at the house (because I couldn't fall straight to sleep) and by 9 was at the county clerk's office getting our marriage license.  (Yes, I even had to raise my right hand and swear one of us was a man and one of us was a woman...I couldn't help it, I was so tired I almost laughed at the poor woman...guess we are not in California anymore...)  From there we headed to the arboretum where we met with our event planner, completely redid the seating chart I had been working on for the reception--literally the only table left untouched was mine and Chuck's (this is for the better, but was still a lot of work and discussion between my mom, dad, and I), finalized all the details with her for the day, tried to mentally arrange how we're setting up the ceremony room, how many chairs, rows, etc we wanted set up and on and on.  

Then, we dropped dad off at home, and made our way to the mall where I was to meet with the woman who is going to do my hair and make up.  I walk in to meet her, glasses on, bags under my eyes from a grand total of 45 minutes of sleep in over 24 hours and let her attempt to wow me with her work.  I was impressed, I walked out of there still not having slept looking pretty fabulous...I'm pretty excited about the actual wedding day when I will hopefully have had a bit more sleep!  I finally got to go home and sleep for a few hours, and then we spent the rest of the evening talking about details--who is renting cars, how are we getting everyone from the hotel to the rehearsal/wedding, who still needs places to stay, how are all these people going to eat, are we feeding them all or are they going to be expected to eat at restaurants?, what time do us girls need to start getting ready if pictures are starting at about 3, how many family members will still be in town for brunch on Sunday, who haven't we heard back from etc etc.  I was pretty amazed at all the details that had to be worked out!  

Today we headed out again this time for my final dress fitting, which was SO great because it fit perfectly and looked awesome--I cannot wait to put it on again, i LOVED it!  I can't breathe super well, and won't be able to eat a ton, but it's not moving once it's on, which was my goal :)  This afternoon mom and I went to Michael's and Party City for various items, went by the Men's Warehouse to ensure all the tuxes had indeed been ordered to be picked up here in MN, bought pens that hopefully won't smear for our guest book, found the place cards for the tables so people know where they are sitting, went to the hotel to find out who had not reserved rooms who still needed to, bought paper products for the Sunday brunch, and I think that maybe that was it?  It was a BUSY weekend!  I have my list of tasks forming for my bridesmaids who will be here that week (assembling programs, filling out place cards--those kinds of things), but I think that everything will get done and things should be beautiful, I can't wait!  Exactly 1 month from right NOW I will be married and with my husband!  

All I know is that Chuck and I owe my mom HUGELY for all the work she is putting into things, she's spending hours of her week figuring things out for us and there is absolutely no way we could pull this event off without her and her amazing event-planning skills, she did a beautiful job with Megan's wedding two years ago and I can't wait to see the finished results of mine!   We're pretty lucky girls, we have a pretty incredible woman to look up to :)