Wow! After over a YEAR of planning, my “big day” in 4 days away!

Some very random thoughts…

If I had a nickel for every time I said “I will never do that when I am a bride” and then I went ahead and did it, I wouldn’t have any worries about paying for this wedding. While I don’t think I have hit bridezilla territory (I really haven’t!) I have had what I will call “bridal madness”–things that normally would not freak me out at all–are freaking me out–big time….

Everyone should be allowed a trial wedding planning run before they get married, because there were so many things that I did, that if I had KNOWN, I could have saved myself TONS of grief.

I am getting VERY tired of the same 2 questions I have been getting for the last 2 weeks: “Are you nervous?” “Is everything all ready to go?” And I WISH I knew what the appropriate answer was–’cause everyone seems disappointed in my responses: “No, I am not nervous” and “yes, everything is just about ready to go”. Should I be a crazy screaming, nervous disorganized wreck? Even with “bridal madness” that is not who I am.

And when you think about it, a lot of wedding traditions and rituals are just….plain…..weird…and its OK to think that–at least I think so…..but most people look at you like you have 3 heads when you say that.

I have found that most people have this “idea” of a bride and her wedding day….and it has pretty much no basis in reality.

I know it sounds like I am being negative–and I am really not–I just think that people get so jammed up with all of the STUFF that they forget the reason they are DOING this–to publicly join together with the person they want to share the rest of their life with.

I am not nervous because I am ready to marry my fiance’–and almost everything is done because my fiance’ and I are theatre people who are very good at organizing events….and we have an amazing coordinator…:-)

Happy Wedding Week to Me!!