Tuesday Night Chat

k3MySailor

Hey ladies, what is everyone up to tonight?
I am trying to finalize the seating chart and I am going crazy!

melntaitt

I should be working on escort cards but I'm exhausted! I'm having dinner with my wine and watching Bones.

Maybe in a few minutes but not right this second.

k3MySailor

Yeah escort cards are my next project, I have been putting it off as long as I can, but now that I have my guest list finalized I have no excuses.

rachellola77

Working on finalizing ceremony songs tonight. Tried to do this last night but computer kept shutting off.

Maybe working on reception songs too if all goes well.

HarperBargo

I'm destressing after meeting with the DJ. He was horrible and stressed both Fi and me out. At one point he was almost yelling at us and telling us the layout we wanted for the reception was wrong. The bridezilla in me almost came out. 

I'm home now with a drink in hand!

kimiandgary

Normally we have dance lessons tonight but this is a break week. FI are just sitting back and enjoying eachother's company tonight.

Maybe I'll convince him we need to work on our vows...

rasp.berry

I'm not really doing anything WR tonight. Seating charts/escort cards are on my horizon, but I'm still missing a huge chunk of our RSVPs (deadline is on Friday) so I obviously have been putting it off.

FI is gone for work for the night, the kids have been in bed for about an hour, and I just finished cleaning up so I'll probably try to find something on tv and go to bed in an hour or so.

I say I'm going to go to bed in an hour or so, but guaranteed I'll be looking at the clock in 3 hours going "Oh sh*!, I'm gonna be tired tomorrow.". I tend to turn into a major night hawk when FI is gone for work, which is usually 3-4 nights a week, so I generally end up tired most of the time... except for late at night, obviously.

rasp.berry

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_tuesday-night-chat?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:d9952405-6619-4926-89db-3d82bfbcee9ePost:2b0343cb-6fd6-420a-a7e5-0f6e9fa05c97">Re: Tuesday Night Chat</a>:
[QUOTE]I'm destressing after meeting with the DJ. He was horrible and stressed both Fi and me out. At one point he was almost yelling at us and telling us the layout we wanted for the reception was wrong. The bridezilla in me almost came out.  I'm home now with a drink in hand!
Posted by HarperBargo[/QUOTE]

Wow, it stressed me out just reading this.

Are you trusting him or still doing your own thing?

HarperBargo

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[QUOTE]Normally we have <strong>dance lessons</strong> tonight but this is a break week. FI are just sitting back and enjoying eachother's company tonight. Maybe I'll convince him we need to work on our vows...
Posted by kimiandgary[/QUOTE]

<div>Our dance lessons are on Wednesday nights. I might have to get Fi to work on our moves before tomorrow's lesson. </div><div>
</div><div>How do you like yoru lessons?</div>

HarperBargo

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tuesday Night Chat : Wow, it stressed me out just reading this. Are you trusting him or still doing your own thing?
Posted by rasp.berry[/QUOTE]

<div>We are doing our own thing! When we left we started calling family and friends and basically taking a poll to make sure we weren't weird or wrong. Basically I want to break up the reception a little bit by doing the cake later in the evening. The DJ said that it was wrong and we need to do everything right after dinner. That is not what either of us are used to or what we want. We stood our ground to the DJ. (I hope that makes sense. I'm still getting over it.)</div>

littleluckypenny

Nothing much to do...started assembling our programs, but ran out of glue dots AND double-sided adhesive

I'm starting to go crazy with nothing wedding related to do!  Everything is done except running the seating chart by FMIL, which won't happen until Sunday.

rasp.berry

Makes perfect sense. It sucks that he was being weird about it, but at least it worked out!

melntaitt

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_tuesday-night-chat?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:d9952405-6619-4926-89db-3d82bfbcee9ePost:428176b1-0999-49eb-a88f-08cdcf631dc8">Re: Tuesday Night Chat</a>:
[QUOTE]Nothing much to do...started assembling our programs, but ran out of glue dots AND double-sided adhesive :( <strong>I'm starting to go crazy with nothing wedding related to do!</strong>  Everything is done except running the seating chart by FMIL, which won't happen until Sunday.
Posted by littleluckypenny[/QUOTE]

I don't know why I feel like I constantly have something to do - even when I really don't. I still have 29 items on my to-do list but it's stuff like breaking in wedding shoes. My last two biggies truly are the seating chart and escort cards then I'm done.

rasp.berry

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[QUOTE]Nothing much to do...started assembling our programs, but ran out of glue dots AND double-sided adhesive :( Posted by littleluckypenny[/QUOTE]

I did this twice while making my invitations. I understand the disappointment!

Ash61612

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_tuesday-night-chat?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:d9952405-6619-4926-89db-3d82bfbcee9ePost:e02c28e8-261d-4414-bf28-45709f96274a">Re: Tuesday Night Chat</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tuesday Night Chat : We are doing our own thing! When we left we started calling family and friends and basically taking a poll to make sure we weren't weird or wrong. Basically I want to break up the reception a little bit by doing the cake later in the evening. The DJ said that it was wrong and we need to do everything right after dinner. That is not what either of us are used to or what we want. We stood our ground to the DJ. (I hope that makes sense. I'm still getting over it.)
Posted by HarperBargo[/QUOTE]

Why is the DJ telling you how to do things? Do what you two want to do, that is all that matters. he should be working with yall to make the reception perfect and how yall want it to be

Ash61612

I'm here, not feeling the best. My headaches were a lot better last week but they are back this week. Ugh

littleluckypenny

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tuesday Night Chat : I did this twice while making my invitations. I understand the disappointment!
Posted by rasp.berry[/QUOTE]

I know, right?  I just want to get it done in one shot!  I refuse to make a run to Walmart just for glue dots. :)

littleluckypenny

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_tuesday-night-chat?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:d9952405-6619-4926-89db-3d82bfbcee9ePost:62fd9af1-5444-4ef3-86c1-4635df20f4b6">Re: Tuesday Night Chat</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tuesday Night Chat : I don't know why I feel like I constantly have something to do - even when I really don't. I still have 29 items on my to-do list but it's stuff like breaking in wedding shoes. My last two biggies truly are the seating chart and escort cards then I'm done.
Posted by melntaitt[/QUOTE]

I think we feel that way because we've all been doing wedding related tasks for months!
Have you already done the seating, but not the chart and cards?  Or have you not done any seating at all?  I did my chart on weddingwire, it was actually not too bad.

littleluckypenny

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[QUOTE]I'm not really doing anything WR tonight. <strong>Seating charts/escort cards are on my horizon, but I'm still missing a huge chunk of our RSVPs (deadline is on Friday) so I obviously have been putting it off. </strong>FI is gone for work for the night, the kids have been in bed for about an hour, and I just finished cleaning up so I'll probably try to find something on tv and go to bed in an hour or so. I say I'm going to go to bed in an hour or so, but guaranteed I'll be looking at the clock in 3 hours going "Oh sh*!, I'm gonna be tired tomorrow.". I tend to turn into a major night hawk when FI is gone for work, which is usually 3-4 nights a week, so I generally end up tired most of the time... except for late at night, obviously.
Posted by rasp.berry[/QUOTE]

What I did was make a chart for my entire guest list, and when anyone declined, I took them off the table.  It made figuring things out easier.

May not work for you, but just a suggestion.

KrisKenny

I'm here. Working on escort cards, seating plan, and day-of schedule.

daria24

I'm here and I'm in a crappy mood. FI was sick all day with a migraine do he got nothing done. I have sent emails to my planner, my venue, and my photog and no one replied yet. In my photog's case the balance is due tomorrow and I asked him for an invoice Monday morning. Hello! I'm trying to pay you! You would think he would answer right away.

HarperBargo

I'm now trying to get motivated to do more on our seating chart. This is the worse detail for me. 

rasp.berry

luckylittlepenny- Well, TBH we only fully decided on having assigned tables within the last few weeks. Originally, we were going to have open tables because it's just close family and friends. When I really sat down and thought about it, I figured it was actually just easier to assign guests to at least a certain table. So, it's now added to the to-do list, but I haven't spent any mental power deciding what to do and how to do it yet. Your suggestion looks like a good place to start though, thanks.

Daria - I feel your pain, my photogs are a bit slow at responding most of the time too. I'm the same way with them though so it balances out and isn't anything I'm worried about. I hate waiting for emails when I know they're coming. I'm super impatient about email for some reason. I hope people will get back to you sooner rather than later.

kelsey+brandon

We're up to 115 jars of jam! Only 3 more batches to go!

And Harp...we're splitting the night up too and having the cake cutting later!!

sunnylilme

Just finished BMs gift bags and I'm almost done with programs.  Also in the process of moving to a new apartment and settling with FI- living together for the first time!  We are going from a mostly long distnace relationship to living together!  I'm nervous!

rasp.berry

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[QUOTE]We're up to 115 jars of jam! Only 3 more batches to go! And Harp...we're splitting the night up too and having the cake cutting later!!
Posted by kelsey+brandon[/QUOTE]

What flavour(s) of jam did you do? We're planning on doing bottled jams too, and originally wanted strawberry as at least the base, but they don't come into season locally until mid to late June, which cuts it too close to our date. Because we want to use local, fresh fruits, we're now thinking of using blueberries, but still on the fence.

HarperBargo

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[QUOTE]We're up to 115 jars of jam! Only 3 more batches to go! And Harp...we're splitting the night up too and having the cake cutting later!!
Posted by kelsey+brandon[/QUOTE]

<div>Good job on the jam.
<div>I'm glad we are not the only ones wanting to break up the night. </div></div>

franklissa

We are working on our wedding day iteniary and it's stressing us out lol

melntaitt

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tuesday Night Chat : I think we feel that way because we've all been doing wedding related tasks for months! <strong>Have you already done the seating, but not the chart and cards?</strong>  Or have you not done any seating at all?  I did my chart on weddingwire, it was actually not too bad.
Posted by littleluckypenny[/QUOTE]

Yes; seating is all done! I'm just making a bazillion feathers out of tacky glue, wire and rice paper for the escort cards. I have a WW account but I haven't really used it; I wish I discovered their wedding website before TK. It's lovely!

kelsey+brandon

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tuesday Night Chat : What flavour(s) of jam did you do? We're planning on doing bottled jams too, and originally wanted strawberry as at least the base, but they don't come into season locally until mid to late June, which cuts it too close to our date. Because we want to use local, fresh fruits, we're now thinking of using blueberries, but still on the fence.
Posted by rasp.berry[/QUOTE]

<div>We're doing all strawberry jam. It's my favorite and they're in season right now in North Carolina! Since it was such a mild winter, they actually started picking them the week earlier this year.</div><div>
</div><div>If you haven't gotten your fruit yet, I would highly recommend waking up and going to the farmer's market when the actual farmer's are there delivering their goods. FI was able to get 30 lbs. of strawberries for $45!!</div>