My FI is in the National Guard and is currently deployed (his first deployment). He proposed just before he left and we only really had time to pick the city and the season. There are only a few reception venues and photographers in our budget so I'm already booking our first choices for a May 2013 wedding. We haven't really had a lot of time to discuss how we are going to pay for the wedding or handle finances when he is back. It's pretty hard to do when the most communication we have is a 10 min phone call once a week or a quick bout of instant messages when he goes to the USO tent. And there are so many other things to talk about at those times.
So anyway this is all stressing me out. I didn't really want to start spending money unitl he comes home, but the ball seems to be rolling already. And I think when the contracts start coming, he should sign them too, but that will take almost 2 weeks to send and 2 weeks to come back in the mail.
I knew that the stress of deployment would cause a lot of highs and lows, but right now this seems to be a low.