Will Planning a Wedding Put Me In the Looney-Bin??

Posted by Liana at 1:41 PM

One would think I'm bound for the looney-bin or going through some serious trauma lately. Last night I went from happy-go-lucky getting quotes from caterers to down-in-the-dumps reconsidering eloping again. Seriously.

Wedding planning sucks. Well, it's lots of fun too. But the whole trying-to-figure-out-budgets and chasing-down-potential-vendors-that-hardly-ever-respond part is a real downer. Next week I fly out to see the location we've already locked down for our wedding... which means lining up as many vendors this week to meet with while we're there.



I'm excited about:
- Seeing our location for the first time and taking LOTS of pics and video of it
- Meeting our potential DJ. He called right away and was SUCH a pleasure to talk too I really wish all vendors were this way!
- Cake tastings!! Mmmm
- Scouting cool hotel for wedding night and getting-ready suite
- That my little bro has agreed to help us out with a certain aspect of the wedding
- Finding a vacation rental for the week
- Possibly meeting with hair/makeup person
- Lots of fun DIY projects to make our wedding completely personal
- Practicing DIY projects with Kimberly and others during a "DIY night"
- Scouting cool locations for a rehearsal dinner/luncheon/brunch depending on when we do it
- Making a special secret-family-recipe cake for my soon-to-be hubby for his groom-cake and seeing his face when he sees the cake-toppers :)


I NOT too thrilled with:
- Trying to figure out the whole catering/rentals thing
- Figuring out who our photographer(s) and videographers are going to be
- The long flight there (sure, I love travel... just not airplanes too much!! LOL)
- Chasing down more vendors that don't respond
- Finishing the registry (I know, it's supposed to be fun but finding pans that don't have teflon because they're outlawing it soon is NOT an easy task! LOL)
- Coming up with an invitation design... maybe Mikey will be good at that ;)
- Probably having to wait until the last minute to know where we're going on our honeymoon (depends on my work during the same month)

The save-the-dates are finished and going out very, very soon. In fact, a few have already received theirs. The website will be populated while I'm out doing planning next week. So soon, very soon, I'll be able to share the Save-the-Dates ;) That is if we decide for sure not to elope....