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Finally getting my act together

I've been engaged since June and we are getting married this coming June. Yesterday was the three month mark. I've been busy with diy projects from the beginning, but this is the week I'm finally getting my act together. I had been having panic attacks due to the stresses of work, planning, and family, now that I've actually accomplished things they are less frequent (yay!). So, this week I have made six wreaths, a card box, decorated 96 votive holders, addressed invitations and lined the envelopes, and gotten reception shoes. FI and I have chosen readings and written the ceremony. He is on spring break next week, so we will get my e ring sized down, engrave our bands, get suits for the gents, choose cake flavors and start looking for designs, order a cake topper, and take various things to store at my mom's house two hours away. I will also be doing my hair and makeup trial. Things are finally starting to come together and I feel much better. Married ladies, when did you really get your act together(or am I weird?) Not yet married ladies, have you had this surge yet(again, or am I weird?)
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Re: Finally getting my act together

  • I started out strong, petered out in the middle, and then got it together again after the New Year for our March wedding. 
    What did you think would happen if you walked up to a group of internet strangers and told them to get shoehorned by their lady doc?~StageManager14
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  • Even with a short 6 month engagement, I still find we are going through ebbs & flows with the planning processes. Hit the ground running in January and had the venue, reception, and dress all finalized. Then we pretty much took all of February "off" and will resume full force when we go to Montana at the end of the month for our one & only visit before the wedding. On the agenda that weekend will be cake tastings, florists, and hair & makeup trials. I actually feel pretty good about everything, but there are definitely brief moments of panic as I see the ticker getting closer.
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  • I had bursts every few months. I'd get a ton done then relax because I had all the boxes checked for that time frame. Then three or four months later, I'd get another burst of work done. Now we're in the final stretch and everything is pretty much complete. 

    Still need to do the seating arrangement/place cards, finalize music (have a good idea, meeting with the DJ in two weeks), buy booze, buy extensions and a hair clip, and clarify one ethnic part of our ceremony with my Fiance's mom. I've started my bridesmaid's gifts and my fiance's thinking about his groomsmen's gifts. And we've started looking at suits for him, but he wants to wait a few more weeks because he's still losing weight.

    I think I'm good. But I'm terrified that I'll wake up in the middle of the night right before the wedding and realize that I forgot something.
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