I think I jinxed myself. I was enjoying just how pleasantly simple every step of wedding planning was going, and then it all kind of started falling apart.
I had a date and a venue set up. It was going to be a totally laid back, "blossom" theme wedding in the early spring (2015) in a nice park here in town.
But my dad is sick -- pretty serious, chronic kind of sick -- and I recently learned that he can't travel, so we have to hold the wedding in his city (about 4 hours away). Also, to put it delicately, "sooner is better than later" if I want him to be healthy enough to attend (much less walk me down the aisle). So suddenly I'm thrust into figuring out a new venue, a new theme (since the old one was directly tied to the season) and a new date, as soon as possible. Freaking out.
Holding it in Albuquerque is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it's a bigger city so there's more stuff to choose from. On the other hand, I have to go up there to taste cake, scout out venues, find a makeup/hairstylist, pick a caterer, etc. etc. etc. If I could've stayed down here, I knew all of those vendors already, so it was just so much simpler. Dealing with my dad's kind of inevitable decline and mortality is hard enough without all of these other super stressful details piling on too.