1 month!

so yesterday marked the one month until the wedding. We're getting more and more anxious. My roommate Dan has moved out and Adam and I are looking at paint samples to paint "our" bedroom. My room has been this horrible green for the last 6 years-a mistake I never fixed-and now it's time for a new look. I'm hoping this will make it feel like OUR room and not MY room. We've registered for new bedding and I'm moving my desk, bookcase and treadmill into the guest room. My bedroom is a hodgepodge of hand me down/secondhand furniture and someday i hope we can purchase a real bedroom set with matching dressers :) Adam will need to find dresser and I've been scoping out Craig's list and the new Ikea store. This weekend while I'm gone to MI for my shower he will install a ceiling fan and clean the carpets in the guest room. And hopefully move some of the appropriate items in. It will be so nice to have access to two bathrooms and a second space to check email watch tv and just get away. Not that 10' is really away, but it will help.

As I said, tomorrow I will head back home to Pentwater for a shower that my dear Aunt's Pat and Annette have been preparing for since, oh a week after we were engaged! No, I'm not joking. I hear it will be Florida themed with Flamingo's and all! Also, I've been told that the guest list is upward of 40 people! So it should be very nice and most of all I'm excited to see everyone-there are lots of people I haven't seen since i got engaged.
I will also use this weekend to finalize all the details that i can. I am printing out all of the programs at home-i designed them myself on in design. As i did the engagement invites and rehearsal dinner invites. I find that i can never get exactly what i want unless i make it myself. so i did. :) The wedding decor is coming together thanks to some inspiring photos I've seen. We had this whole RED theme going on and one day i realized; WAIT! i don't want a RED & WHITE wedding! So i freaked out on poor mom, she calmly set me straight (hung up on me) and we started over-ish. But now I've very happy with my Black & white wedding with silver accents and splashes of red :) Anything we can do to make the poor church hall look like a castle the better. (we've bought lots of alcohol;) But I keep telling myself; think back to all the wedding you've been to (I'm in the high 80's i think) how many can recall what it looked like. maybe you remember the dresses or the cake...but what you really remember is how much fun you had. So I tell myself what is important (out side of Adam and me) is that everyone have a good time! And i think the Pleva family can deliver. My parents are hosting 3 parties in 4 days. They're insane! I love them so much and they really have gone over and beyond anything I could have asked. My mother has sewn 250 chair back covers; 28 table runners; made 75 jars of strawberry jam; and made an hors d'ourve for the reception! My dad is killing deer for the welcome party and he laid new floor in the cabin. This and they've been writing checks like it's their job. Hopefully this weekend I can keep my cool and be the model daughter bride. Fingers crossed the dress gets of the plane w/o too many wrinkles.

Holy smokes, it's getting close.

So i have 37 days till my wedding, according to "the knot". You'd think by the knot in my stomach it was in 37 minuets. I can't believe how much stress and anxiety has just come over me in the last week. Everyone offers to help, including Adam, but there's just nothing for anyone to do, but me. I'm very specific about how i want thing done and it just helps me if i do them. then i know they're done how i want. So see i make a mountain for myself and i don't really care for climbing. This weekend Adam will be in Las Vegas so i have a weekend to get things done. My roommate also moves out so that will alleviate extra stress at the house. I will have the place to myself-well the dogs will be there too. It's just lots of little things...jam labels, welcome packets, scanning pictures, deciding on a final song so i can print the programs! ug. This last weekend i had a much needed girls trip to Miami. Boy did we have a good time.


I have some wonderful girlfriends. And I am really lucky. Even my mom and my aunt came...or as we refer to them the MOB and the GOB :)

Now I'm sure I've said this before, I'm not nervous about marrying Adam. I'm so excited and can't wait for that. Its just all the stress of planning a wedding. and waiting and thinking about each little detail until i feel like I'm going to throw up. Maybe it's time for another Yoga class. So for now i just do what i can, take a deep breath and check things off my never ending list. Tonight i try on my altered dress; with the veil, jewelry; the whole deal. I'm glad tara will be there, I might just pass out.