Pre-Wedding Meltdown

Re: Pre-Wedding Meltdown

• bridetobe71412

  

  May 2012

  Ahhhh I am stressed FOR you!
  
  You have so much on your plate. Is there anything that abeula and/or fiance can help with - perhaps the groceries or putting away the laundry - at least temporarily until the wedding is over?
  
  I totally hear you though. I'm kind of in trouble at work because I am behind on a project because I didn't work this weekend (I was home in Philly for WR stuff). I'm going to have to be here pretty much 24/7 this week (obvi taking a quick break right now . . .) and I absolutely HATE this job. But at least for me it's just work and wedding - not the additional stress of school/tests/homework!
  
  You poor thing.

  

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• ILoveToRobot member

  

  May 2012

  BREATHE!
  
  Everything will be just fine. Do things in order of priority. Obviously your homework should come first. Don't stress about the grocery list right now and focus on getting those stats problems figured out.
  
  Next, ask your fiance to pitch in with the grocery shopping and laundry. Maybe he can take two whole chores off your list! If he's too busy maybe you can split the list like you make the grocery list and he goes shopping. Or, even put it off a day. You'd be suprised at the meals you can come up with when there's nothing left in the fridge : )
  
  After things calm down with school then tackle a wedding project. Do you have a friend that could help make the invitations? Does your officiant have a deadline? Maybe you could ask her to give you a few more days since you're so busy. Maybe she could make some suggestions to help your decisions easier.
  
  Good luck! You'll do just fine!

  

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• michelle11988 member

  

  May 2012

  Good luck! I feel your pain all too much.  I work full-time, so at least 40 hrs a week, am going to school part-time, doing continuing education for a real estate license, planning the wedding, and still am not even close to being unpacked from moving 3 weeks ago.  I had a mini-melt down yesterday morning over the stress.  I'm planning on asking my boss for Friday off (which at this point will be unpaid, add to the stress) to get a bunch of school work done and a mani/pedi to help relax me.  Oh and I walked into work yesterday to a flooded carpet from the upstairs condo hot water tank overflowing.......

  
  
  

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• toomanychoices17

  

  May 2012

  I feel your pain as well! I work full time and before the semester ended was feeling crazed with wedding planning, household chores and trying to balance everything and still work out. FI started helping out way more after I had a breakdown and his busy time at work ended a few days later, so that's what has gotten me through the past couple of weeks.  I agree with PPs, you need to ask for help and try to get some things off your plate. Good luck!

  

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• mekiakoo member

  

  May 2012

  Can't Abuela do her own laundry??
  
  Do you HAVE to go food shopping today? Can it be put off for a bit or somebody do it instead?
  
  I wouldn't worry about the clean clothes in the laundry basket. Do what you need to do now and other things can wait, for real.
  
  Let's focus on your exams/homework first- you'll feel better once they're all over with then you can start focusing on other things!

  

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• penny12986 member

  

  May 2012

  BrightFirefly, this sounds like WAYYYY too much for one person to handle.
  
  If I were you, I would stop doing these chores.  FI and Abuela will not go hungry or clothes-less.  They should understand that school and work are your top priorities right now and you guys should all sit down with a calendar so they can see how busy you are. 
  
  You will get everything done that you need to and they are lucky to have you so don't stress.  Also, if FI and Abuela won't stop bothering you, you should spend extra time in your campus library to do the studying/homework that you need to do.  It's the only way to be sure that no one will bother you.

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• AllyG303 member

  

  May 2012

  Yikes! I was totally losing it, but then FI decided to help out a lot the past couple of weeks with almost ALL of the housework.

  
  

  Solutions?

  -Laundry can wait until after the test.  A quick run through the dryer the morning you want to wear something can de-wrinkle it.

  
  

  -maybe accidently "lose" abuelas laundry?  That woman needs to pull her weight around there.  Or maybe her amor y corazon can do it for her?

  
  

  -for ceremony music...have you checked out gigmasters.com?  That's where I found our ceremony musician.  You just type in your city, wedding date, and what kind of music you want (strings, piano, guitar, etc) and they'll give you a list of musicians.  

  

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• littlemoments324 member

  

  May 2012

  abuela needs to do her own laundry...and FI needs to help out...end of story...

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• BrightFirefly member

  

  May 2012

  Thanks ladies. I just finally got back on this board to post. -_-

  

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