NER - Patience

LakeR2014 · October 2013

For those that are planning and those that have already had their wedding....how was your patience level on actually WAITING for your wedding to happen? I'm so freaking thrilled about my wedding, how it's turning out (even with all the little things here and there), and I'm so excited for it to happen that waiting the next 8 months is like: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Although, as my FI says, the time between our engagement and now flew by, so between now and our wedding should fly by too, but I'm READY!!! Hahaha.

Just wondering how everyone's patience scale is doing/did during the process.

mrsbizzz · October 2013

We've been together for seven and a half years, long-distance for four of those, engaged for eight months, and still have six months to go.

You could say I'm about ready to chew my arm off.

My solution: everyday I try think about how far we've come. I remember when we started long-distance four years ago how I thought it was never going to end. The past four years have actually moved a lot faster than I thought they would.

itzMS · October 2013

I kept a countdown on an app on my phone. Totally helped keep me in check.

MuppetOverlord · October 2013

We booked our vendors in December and our Venue in February or March and didn't really think much of it except for things here and there until August....and then suddenly it was October and the week before the wedding I dont even remember happening and the wedding went by in a flash.

My patience was very high. I didn't obsesses over it at all

melbelleup · October 2013

My patience is thin haha. Well, I guess in my mind, I honestly don't have much to do other than pick readings and ceremony music.. which I can't do until December. We're doing our marriage workshop on the 9th though so that will be nice to have out of the way... other than that I'm basically twiddling my thumbs, saving my money and wishing it was June already.

climbingsingle · October 2013

I'm generally a very impatient person, however this is something I'm patient about. We have so much else going on (I just moved into his house, we're redoing the master bath and master bedroom, we have a ton of stuff to get rid of/donate) that I'm actually glad it's not happening until September 2014 and that I still a lot of time.

tammym1001 · October 2013

I am so impatient! I try to keep myself busy with other stuff and I'm glad the holidays are coming up because that will keep my busy, but I'm definitely ready for it to happen.

cowgirl8238 · October 2013

I wasn't getting too excited until we went to the cake tasting. Since then my brain has been one tracked on wedding. I have done almost all of my vendors already, planned out the ceremony and the reception decor is all good to go. I just try to keep myself busy with friends to help distract from the months I have to go.

cruffino · October 2013

We have just over 3 months left and I'm starting to feel the antsy-ness increasing. I need to take it down a notch though because I already have issues with anxiety and between now and February is a very busy time at work, and school and of course holidays so I need to check myself before I wreck myself.

WinstonsGirl · October 2013

We had a longer engagement - 15 months, but that to give people a year's notice to fly to Hawaii. We were tempted to do it 3 months after we got engaged, but waited the extra year. I really like the longer period, cos i got to enjoy being engaged - try dresses, go to shows, read magazines, etc. But by the end I was just ready to be married. Our wedding was pretty simple, so not a lot of planning on our part, but I was done by the last couple of months or so. I can't remember being very impatient though

manateehugger · October 2013

I've been engaged for over a year now and still have 8 months to go. FI and I are long distance and have been for 3 years. Yeah, I'm impatient.

I think doing all of our vendors so far out has actually made me more impatient. I'm just sitting around waiting for everything to happen.

annathy03 · October 2013

Our engagement is 18 months, we have six left and I'll admit I'm starting to get impatient, I think mostly because we initially were planning on being married by now. We pushed to spring bc we were slow to start planning (I was working or on call 7 days/week and couldn't make appts) and my sister got pregnant and wouldn't have been able to fly around our original timeframe. We still have plenty to do though, the venue and date is booked but we are still finalizing vendors.

katieg520 · October 2013

I didn't want a long engagement for that very reason. I said 6 months is just long enough to plan a wedding without me dying from anticipation!

APDSS22 · October 2013

I had a two and a half year long engagement. By the end of it I was definitely ready to be married but that's how long we needed to comfortably save up for the wedding, so we did. It was worth it to have everything we wanted and have everyone we wanted there so that's what I was thinking about every time I started to get antsy.

emmyg65 · October 2013

Well I'm not a very patient person by nature, so I had a hard time waiting for our wedding. And our engagement was only 7 months! But I knew it would fly by, and it really did. I made sure to keep busy with plenty of non-wedding stuff to keep my mind off it.

ShellLillian · October 2013

We have almost exactly 7 months left.
I'm simultaneously terrified that we won't have enough time to get everything done and ready for it to be tomorrow.

I'm a very impatient person, and it's compounded by the fact that we get married the same month we graduate, and we'll also be moving shortly after, so there are a lot of really big, exciting things happening all at once - not just a wedding. We both are in a crappy living situation right now that puts a lot of stress on both of us so I can't wait to be in one place.

However, on the bright side I am so ridiculously busy that I only have about 10 minutes a day to be scream my head off impatient, so I guess it will work out.

ashleyep · October 2013

We've been engaged for 7 months and still have 9 to go. We had all of our vendors booked by early summer so the last month or two is pretty low key. We did our engagement photos, recently went bridesmaid dress shopping. The only real thing I need to do before the end of the year is order save the dates to get them out in January. Then we'll have tastings and finalize flowers and what not, but there's nothing I need to get done in the next few months really.

I'm pretty ready to just be married - this 16 month engagement sucks haha.

smalfrie19 · October 2013

I have NO patience. Most days I am like "I HATE wedding planning" I am trying to take things slow, but I am such a planner. We only have to book two more vendors and I just have to order a few things like invites and the guest book..and the rest cant really be done til after RSVP's.... I however have been engaged for 15 months and have another almost 12 left to go...

FutureMrsN3312 · October 2013

We're having a 26 month engagement. We knew we needed to do 2 years but after booking a May 2014 wedding it seemed soooo much longer with 2 months added on.

I had planned on not starting to do any planning until Jan 2013 which was hard because I'm a planner but I caved last November and got a jump start on it. I had everything booked by the end of Jan. I got my dress in Feb. And then time stood still from March till now.

As it gets closer its getting more exciting and feeling more "real" but for a while it felt like time was standing still and I was impatient. My FI is also really laid back. His motto this whole time has been "we have plenty of time".

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