Just thinking...

SueR13

Actually, I'm procrastinating doing things for my move in 2 1/2 weeks. Yikes, 2 and  a half weeks.

I never thought I'd get remarried - and here it is, 8 days away.

melissamc2

You're so close!  There is a part of me that wishes we were down to that amount of time.  I love him, and I love wedding planning, but I'm ready to be over this and on to the next phase!

Are you all set and just waiting it out, or still rushing around with last minute wedding things?

SueR13

The wedding is all set. I have to drop things off at the venue on Friday, and then drop things off at the hotel next Wednesday... but that's about it. (Although I am having a hard time getting in touch with my sales rep at the hotel. Grrrr...)

However, 11 days after the wedding, I'm driving with my 19yo daughter down to FL, leaving my new husband at home! She needs to get back to college. Then, I get home on Saturday - and on Tuesday I move from my apartment to FI's current house.

I still haven't finished booking our honeymoon - we leave on Labor Day - and then, a few weeks after we get back from that, we move again - together.

So lots going on. Glad that the wedding is done, though.

thealphabride

Congrats SueR I hope alll your wedding dreams come true!

SueR13

Thanks.

Was just checking the wedding month board. It makes me feel so old. Well, I am so old! I'm probably the age of lots of those knotties mothers!

Some of their questions make me think - but some are so silly. Then I remember, oh, yeah, right, I did this before. Probably before they were born!

MikesAngie

SueR -

I don't envy you with all the moves! 

Congratulations though on your upcoming wedding and having everything ready to go!

SueR13

Thanks.

Lisa50

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[QUOTE]Thanks. Was just checking the wedding month board. It makes me feel so old. Well, I am so old! I'm probably the age of lots of those knotties mothers! Some of their questions make me think - but some are so silly. Then I remember, oh, yeah, right, I did this before. Probably before they were born!
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I'm with you on that.  I post on a couple of the other boards, including my wedding month board and I am 100% certain I am old enough to be someone's mom.  Ha!

You're right, some of their questions are silly.  But, I feel sort of sorry for the younger generation of brides -- there is so much information (overload?) and so many rackets now, everyone trying to make a buck off of a wedding.  I would imagine many of the younger brides can get overwhelmed by the things the industry tells them they "must" do.  It is not as easy now as it was for us when we did this the first time around.

I wish you all good things on your wedding day, the road trip to college, moving in with the FI, getting the honeymoon booked, etc.  You will have an exciting 6 weeks ahead of you!  Enjoy and have fun.

Sue-n-Kevin

Was just checking the wedding month board. It makes me feel so old. Well, I am so old! I'm probably the age of lots of those knotties mothers!

Some of their questions make me think - but some are so silly. Then I remember, oh, yeah, right, I did this before. Probably before they were born!

This drives me nuts. On my wedding month board (a year away!) one of the gals asked if she could call me "Mom", LMAO. It's ok, I had my kids late in life, so my kids aren't old enough to get married, even though I'm old enough to have kids who should be ready to get married! They ask a lot of questions and seem so unsure of themselves on many of the boards, but then I remember that the "wedding industry" has pushed them to think there is only one way to do things, and that's extravagently and "their" way.

It's nice planning a wedding later in life, even if it is my first. I'm getting what I WANT and not what anyone tells me I "should" have.

SueR13, I really hope you have the day of your (older) dreams, knowing that you have found the right guy, this time, and that you will be surrounded by loved ones and friends who matter.

Best wishes, and come back with pics!

SueR13

Thanks Lisa and Sue.

I was first married 29 years ago and I certainly don't remember having fun planning it. I know my mom and I did the entire thing without input from my ex-husband. But you are both so right about these young things having choices I never had way back when.

The only reason I hang out on the month board is because no one in my real life wants (or needs) to hear about my wedding stuff at this point. I have one friend whose gone along for the ride... and probably if I was 25, she'd be my maid of honor! But I'm 52 and I want my family to be my wedding party.

On my wedding month board, someone asked me if I was old! Imagine that! And today there was a discussion about stockings or no stockings for the wedding... and several of them said their mothers told them they should wear stockings, but they guess older woman were raised that way. I was raised that way!!!! (But I'm wearing sandals and no hose because at 52, it's more about comfort for me!)

Glad to know I'm not alone.

~Sue