The big countdown has begun. In 10 days, I will be a married man.
My fiancée is a wonderful woman, and I’m looking forward to married life. But with 10 days to go before a wedding the two of us have basically planned ourselves (from 200 miles away), the big day can’t come fast enough.
Nine months before the wedding, it feels like it’s so far off it’s not worth worrying about. This continues until about three months before the wedding, when most of the details start falling into place. A month before the wedding, it’s starting to feel real, and now, with just a week and a half to go, everything is taken care of — except for all the little things we’ve neglected all this time.
Like: confirming details with the photographer, making sure the ushers have the right ties, making sure the florist has the right combinations for the right people, finalizing the menu for the rehearsal dinner, and on and on and on. I’ve got a to-do list I’ve been carrying around in my pocket for several days now, and for every item I cross off, it seems like I add two more.
Of course, we could have avoided many of these deadly details by just using Angie’s List and hiring a wedding planner, but we felt our simple and relatively inexpensive wedding didn’t require one.
My first lesson in married life is this: admit when you are wrong.
While I’m sure we’ll pull everything together in time for the big day, hiring a wedding planner wouldn’t have been a bad idea. Although I have been able to use the List for some things, there aren’t a lot of rated companies in LaGrange, where we’re getting married. It’s not exactly a thriving metropolis.
But if you happen to be getting married soon, and you’re trying to decide whether to hire a planner or not, take my advice and just do it — it will be money well spent.
And with all that extra time on your hands, maybe you could get to work on my to-do list.
Have you gotten yourself one of these?
