Monday, September 01, 2008
Wedding planning is exhausting
Only a week has passed since I proposed. I'm exhausted.
One of the first things we did was set up a wiki for wedding planning. We figured that given the number of things that people in different locations were going to need to coordinate, a wiki to let us keep track of plans, contacts, and everything else would be very helpful. WikiDot provided us with a perfect wiki that let us lock out everybody else and just focus on writing down the ideas we thought would be fun.
Of course, then we invited in both of our parents. Wikidot has a great feature where you can only allow someone commenting permissions. Next thing we knew there were a billion comments from both of our parents. Many of the comments were focused around our biggest issue: the date.
Dave, whom you may remember form the proposal story, has been my best friend for the last 17 years. A little while back, he requested orders to deploy to Afghanistan sometime in Summer 2009. It would be best for him if we had the wedding early, since "requesting" might turn into "received" quickly. Jillian and I have another set of very close friends who recently moved to Texas. Due to their tricky academic schedule, they thought that the only weekend they'd be free was Memorial Day weekend. A busy weekend for weddings, but hopefully early enough that Dave should be able to make it.
Of course, it turns out our Texan friends can't make it at all. But due to finals at various colleges where we have friends and siblings, Memorial Day weekend is still the most viable weekend.
Jillian's mother was kind enough to call every wedding location in the greater Lancaster area, where Jillian is from. Sadly, it seems like a lot of places have already booked. So suddenly, less then a week after getting engaged, we're under the gun to pick a date and a location.
This weekend Jillian came up to Frederick, mostly to get the ring resized. We spent almost every other moment wedding planning. Our wiki has ballooned from three pages to fifteen. There are a ton of comments. Plus, we both needed to spend some serious time working on this website to make it publishable. I think we're mostly there, but Jillian is still trying to touch up some entries.
So I'm cleaning my kitchen, trying to stay sane. Jillian's mother is touring locations in Lancaster, while we're both in Frederick. My parents are, luckily for them, hundreds of miles to the north.
It's going to be a long week/month/year.
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