In just over 30 days, I’ll be in the midst of getting ready for our wedding. Nearly all the planning is done with a few stray pieces still lingering – kids’ table, table configuration type things, and the final paperwork with guest number. I still need to buy a guest book of some sort, buy our one way plane tickets to the wedding, and come up with something for cards.
I got all the invitations done in less than a week despite some serious hiccups in the production of them. I found a typo on the final which we all missed pre-printing. It’s subtle so most people won’t notice and not anything major. I figure if it’s the one thing that goes wrong, that’s lovely. We’re starting to get the RSVP postcards and amusingly enough, a few people have stuck them in envelopes despite the fact that we put postage on all the cards. People also aren’t filling in the ‘Words of wisdom for the bride & groom’ side of the card for the most part, which is a little sad making.
So far, most of the RSVPs have been ‘No,’ which isn’t unexpected. We invited nearly 200 and we’re expecting just over 100. It should be a good number and we’re excited.
One particularly unexpected thing is that managing the registries actually requires some work. Neither of us really processed the whole gift giving thing and I’m particularly terrible at asking for anything. We’ve had to be fairly thoughtful about including things. For both of us, our natural tendency is not ask for or include things, for a variety of self-editing reasons. It’s made creating a registry interesting, but I think we’ve gotten the hang of it. It’s an amusing problem to have though.
Wedding planning is a part time job, at the very least. I’ll be glad when my full-time job is the only one I have to worry about.
