Once people notice my engagement ring, I generally get asked the exact same two questions in the exact same order, so I’ll answer them here:
Question # 1 Do you have a date for the wedding?
Answer #1 Yes (we worked around my dad’s vacation schedule), but isn’t it gauche to post the date here? Or anti-climatic since I am trying to send out Save-the-Date cards? And if somebody asks about the date, does s/he think that s/he is invited? Good lord, planning a guest list for a wedding is stressful. Does anybody have any tips? At this point I have about 50 invites planned with just under 100 anticipated attendees – and we are planning on having it at my house. Pretty informal.
Question #2 Are you going to have more kids?
Answer #2 Hmmm, my friend Darlene recently told me about a friend who always said, “If I had known how much trouble my kids were going to be as teenagers, I wouldn’t have had so many.” Let’s just say that I am not in my easiest part of my parenting years with Bella right now. I would love to have more kids, but I think I need to get a few other items in order first, like where I’m going to live, how we’re going to make money, where the first kid is going to go to school, minor things like that.
I got my hair cut yesterday – and according to my dear friend Nu, she needs to know what kind of dress and shoes I am going to wear before she can cut my hair. So now I have the first cut towards the “wedding cut,” based on my vague impressions of my sister’s dress as a wedding dress possibility. My hair needs to grow another three inches before it reaches the envisioned wedding haircut length. Grow hair grow! And I don’t think I want a veil at this point.
It seems that every decision needs to be made now before any action at all can be taken. I stopped in at the Paper Source yesterday – and realized that choosing an invitation means knowing the color scheme and theme for the wedding. I don’t intend to have a fancy wedding, but a coordinated color and theme would be not-so-hard I think. I ended up buying envelopes and flat cards in two different styles and six different colors for my honey to check out. Instead of a pale gray that I was picturing, I ended up preferring the pale green called sage, and an off-white called cement. Thinking of a crane motif.
