Time flies...

It seems like just yesterday that I was lamenting that the wedding was over a year away, and here we are less than nine months out. Everytime I blink, another month passes by. March is drawing to a close now, and I'm realizing we actually have to start getting details in line. Most of the planning has gone very smoothly, but now I am starting to enter freak-out mode in getting my bridesmaids ready, because that's the only part of this shindig that I've made very complicated. I'm realizing several things. First, letting all of my bridesmaids choose their own fabric and design their own gowns is going to be difficult. I'm realizing that as I go through the wedding planning process, I have very little time outside of my job and my conversion studies to get anything done. Well, most of my other bridesmaids are either lawyers or doctors, and even if they arent, they're still very busy with their jobs. For example, Amanda and I have been playing phone tag for over a month now. So I don't know what made me think they'd have time to go running around finding fabric and dress designers. I have a feeling though that if I can just make some progress with their dresses this month I'll feel much better. Their dresses will look amazing.
The other thing is coordinating the actual day. I still need to find hair and make-up people for the bridesmaids, and realize that I need to get on this! People are starting to get booked. Aagh.
I have also been endlessly harrassing Kenny about the save-the-date cards to the point where he's probably re-thinking this whole "marrying Cindy" thing. He volunteered to self-address them so that we wouldn't have to employ a calligrapher, but I was really nervous about this. Mostly I was nervous that people would receive our save-the-dates sometime in December. Those of you who know Kenny well know what I'm talking about (sorry, Kenny). In the end, however, Kenny addressed and mailed the cards only one week past our target date. Amazing. Truly amazing.
So I guess what I'm realizing is that the closer the wedding gets, the more OCD I get about the planning process. In coming to grips with my type-A wedding-planning personality, I am incredibly thankful that we have a florist, photographer/videographer and caterers that we trust to the point where we are leaving most of the decision-making in those realms completely up to them. Thanks Chris, Hy, Gayle & Bob! You guys are amazing!