So tells me the Wedding Wire website from where I e-navigate this event. This website is helpful; it contains the guest list and the photos of our wedding website slideshow, it hosts the html editor from where I update the wedding website, it has tools I don't even use, such as the checklist (eg, mani-pedi appointment) and the budget (eg, videographer).Up until now, managing this website, writing on the blog (any of them), indeed all the details of the wedding, have been not much more than a sweet diversion. I take a break from work to look up information about local wedding sites, or Norwegian wedding cakes, or Portland hotels. I crafted a first draft of the ceremony at lunch one day, that Mark's begun editing it. I bought a dress out of the blue.
But now, as my wedding web service tells me that July 18th is but a little more than two months away, this sweet diversion has by necessity become my next big project.
The timing is great, really. I just opened a show last night, and was feeling a bit glum today (as I usually do) after the energetic drive that led to opening night turned inevitably into exhaustion, sadness, and the realignment of priorities. Thank God, Mark sat down with me tonite and we talked through some of the wedding logistics, budget, as well as the big list of home improvement projects he wants to finish before the wedding day (bless his nesting heart).
Sitting with Mark, the calendar open as we each created our own to-do lists, then starting a spreadsheet and even writing this blog entry, have whittled this daunting prospect down to a manageable size. I think we can actually get married in two months, with tradition and our unique touches, surrounded by our family and friends, with celebrations for the younger and older sets.
I may not have the mani-pedi date on my e-calendar, but I trust the day will come, as the next 68, 69, 70 days will come, and those that will come after, peacefully and beautifully, just in time.
