It's Wednesday night, I'm at a training in Atlanta, and the wedding planning is in a holding pattern. I've been describing wedding planning as trying to play five games of chess at once. I suspect that it's my turn to move a piece, but I'm not sure which of the five boards to attend to and I'm pretty sure I wasn't paying attention when someone explained game strategy.
Here is the current list of stuff I wish I knew what to do with:
- Invitations: I admire people with a cohesive theme in their wedding materials, with good clean design and personalized touches, but I do not think a beautiful suite of paper products is worth taking a second job. I think it would be really neat for my dad to create the illustrations on the invites, but I'm afraid that my request is now making him turn green with anxiety. In the meantime, we really ought to send out save-the-dates soon. Once they are created and ordered and we determine whom we're inviting...
- Guest list: How do we narrow down our guest list when we want to fling open the doors and invite everyone (and allow our parents to do so as well)? If we are budgeting for 100 guests, how many additional people should we invite because we assume that many won't be able to travel in this lousy economy? This could be a math equation.
- Centerpieces: How does one actually design a centerpiece? This is a mystery to me. Do I need a professional to take care of this?
- Flowers: See centerpieces.
- Wedding dress: I want to look pretty and be comfortable, but I refuse to spend even half of what my first car cost on a dress I will wear exactly once. Hint: my first car was a 1981 Plymouth Sapporo. I also don't want to look like a marshmallow, a merengue, or Mt. Fuji.
Someone, please, bring me the Bobby Fischer of nuptials.
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