My wedding countdown!

dzsaigirl · #1 05-19-2002, 10:49 PM

I am getting married on June 15th! That means I have 27 days left! I am freaking out! I keep peeking at my registries (d'oh!). It seems like the day can't come soon enough, especially since my fiance does not live here, so he is not around me to keep me calm. Okay...I feel lots better after having written this. When I talk about the excitement, it calms me down!

GreekLetterGirl · #2 05-19-2002, 10:55 PM

Congrats on the wedding !!! Keep us posted !!

SATX*APhi · #3 05-20-2002, 01:21 AM

Congratulations on your upcoming wedding!!

Remember: Excitement is GOOD!

BearyCuteAPhi · #4 05-20-2002, 05:36 PM

Congrats!! I can't imagine what your going through but I am sure all of the diff. feelings will be worth it when that special day comes! I wish you the best of luck in your new life! Most importantly remember to have FUN!!!

God Bless,
Ronnie

BearyCuteAPhi · #5 05-20-2002, 05:37 PM

Keep us posted we want ot see pictures!!!!!

Ronnie

Sisterplum · #6 05-20-2002, 11:31 PM

Congrats and good luck surviving through these last few weeks!!!! I know how it feels not to have your FI near you before the wedding....my fiance was living in Florida while I was home in Nova Scotia....he flew home on the Thursday, we got married that Saturday and he flew back to Florida (without me!

) on Monday. I met up with him 2 weeks later in Orlando and then we got to go on our honeymoon!

You're almost at the end of the engagement journey.....one piece of advice....don't sweat the small stuff! It will make you go crazy (as my seating plan did to me....I was constantly freaking over it, up until the MINUTE before guests were to come into the reception hall!

) Remember to concentrate on your (soon-to-be) husband on your wedding day and soak the whole day in. The day seemed to fly by for me and before I knew it, it was 1am and everyone was getting kicked outta the hall!

Please come back and tell us all about your big day.....and have pics! I love looking at wedding pictures!

dzsaigirl · #7 05-21-2002, 12:11 AM

I am avoiding the seating problem by having open seating. It is an hors d'ouvre (sp?) buffet with wine, champagne, beer since it is an afternoon wedding.

I am trying really hard not to make a big deal out of things. But everyone around me seems to talk to me about nothing but the wedding. Almost like I am nothing but a bride now, not a normal person. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the attention and concern that my family and friends show, but I would like to have just one day where nobody said the word "wedding". I am excited for the wedding, but the most excitement is coming from the marriage itself. I guess once I am married, the question will be "So how is newlywed life"...Does anyone understand the frustration? Everyone expects me to be freaking about details of this and that and I just tell them that as long as I am married at the end of the day, everything will be perfect...

I am also super excited about my honeymoon

And also moving to Rhode Island

I just want everyone else to be relaxed so that I can be relaxed. If everyone else wasn't a basketcase, I don't think I would be all that nervous!

dzsaigirl · #8 05-21-2002, 12:14 AM

Let me add to that...I am freaking...no mistake about that...it is just because I am so close to being with my fiance forever! The freaking out I talked about at the beginning of the post is non-detail related

RedRoseSAI · #9 05-21-2002, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dzsaigirl
I am excited for the wedding, but the most excitement is coming from the marriage itself.

...and that's how you know it's true love!

Definitely post pictures - and hang in there!!

Love in SAI,
RedRose

PsychTau · #10 05-22-2002, 12:36 AM

I got married Sept 29, 2001 (yes, air travel that month was interesting, to say the least. And yes, we did see the Pentagon. Spooky)

My advice is to have your nervous breakdown the day BEFORE the wedding. No, seriously. I'm not wishing a nervous breakdown on you, but get the whole anxiety attack, throwing up, nerves thing outta the way beforehand. Trust me, I speak from experience:
My finace and I had to do counseling sessions with the priest before the wedding (Episcopalian). The last one was the day before the wedding, where he went through the "Rehearsal" part with just us, explaining everything. Well, my mom was in town, we were picking up all the rental stuff and setting up that day (Lots of things to get done in so little time). Sooooo. . .on the way to the church, I just lost it!!! (Scared the finace half to death!!) Crying, hyperventilating, thinking the worst about all the arrangements, the whole thing. One hour later I was doing just fine, and everything about the wedding went WONDERFULLY without a hitch. And I was quite relaxed the day of the wedding (except for walking down the aisle. . .)

My sorority big sis got married the very next week. My maid of honor was also in her wedding, and she said the bride held all of her emotions in and kept herself very distracted until wedding day. THEN, she cried from the time she woke up until she made it to the reception hall. My maid of honor thinks things would have been better for her if she would have taken the time to focus on her emotions the day before (this was her observation).

NOW. . .I'm not saying I didn't cry when I first saw my groom, or feel nervous. I just allowed myself to lose control the day before so I wouldn't have to try to control it in front of 300 guests!!!! Just give yourself permission to lose it, it made me feel so much better.

And I'm sorry this is so long!!!!

pbear19 · #11 06-09-2002, 02:13 PM

Just wanted to bump this back up and say good luck with your last week, dzsaigirl! I hope everything goes smoothly and your friends and family are nice and calm!

When I had my wedding last summer it went great, all except for one thing. I thought I had every last detail worked out, but I forgot to have someone assinged to taking down the decorations at the church after the ceremony. Everyone took off for the reception before I realized, and my new husband and I ended up having to take all the decorations and pile them in my car with the help of only a couple people. So the moral is, make sure you have some people and a designated vehicle available to deal with the church decorations!

Good luck!!!

dzsaigirl · #12 06-09-2002, 02:34 PM

Thanks everyone! I am packing all my stuff in boxes right now so that I will be ready to pack the uhaul after I get back from the honeymoon. I am moving to Rhode Island 2 days after we get back from our cruise!

I keep feeling like I have forgotten something, but I think that everything will be okay. My fiance comes into town tomorrow, so I think that it will really hit me then. I am very sad to think that I will not live in this house anymore. I keep looking around at the things that seem so convenient and familiar and thinking that no, I can't just go into the computer room and look for lost pictures, I can't just go in the other room and play with my cats. It will all be different. I know it will be a really big adjustment for me. Especially being away from my family and only seeing them a couple of times a year. I am excited though and there will be new people to meet, new things to see, and most of all, a marriage. So that's pretty much how I feel right now. I am way excited for the honeymoon and also for my reception, to see what it will really look like after all this planning. The wedding ceremony itself is more nervewracking than exciting for me since I know that my fiance is not a big fan of being the center of attention...I think he will survive!

BTW: The whole wedding party gets to tool around in a limo with free drinks! That is sort of exciting. And my bridesmaids and I are staying in a hotel suite the night before the wedding too. So that is another thing to look forward to!

Okay, I am now officially avoiding the things I need to do, so I am going to stop typing...

carnation · #13 06-09-2002, 02:35 PM

Dear dzsai girl,

My wedding advice would be: focus intensely on your groom as you go down the aisle, concentrating on every moment of the walk. Someone gave me that advice before mine--said she was so spaced out by the time that the actual ceremony came that she didn't remember a thing. I took it and I'll always remember my husband's expression as I came down the aisle.

Have a great wedding!!!!

dzsaigirl · #14 06-14-2002, 12:23 AM

Well, this might be my last post before the wedding. Tomorrow is my bridesmaids luncheon followed by everyone getting man/pedicures and then to check into the hotel suite where all of the girls will spend the night before the wedding. Then we will freshen up and go to the rehearsal and then the rehearsal dinner. Then Saturday is the wedding! After that, we have 2 hotel days to kill and then our cruise leaves Monday. I have been sort of sick to my stomach from the nerves, so hopefully that will pass. I will let everyone know how it went once I get back from the honeymoon!

SATX*APhi · #15 06-14-2002, 12:29 AM

Once again, congratulations!!

Have a wonderful and memorable day and week.