Less Than A Year

So it is finally less than a year until the big day, and I am stressed. Planning a wedding is hard - especially planning a wedding while finishing my internship, taking classes, working on a thesis, and finding a job. It is stressful trying to make everyone else happy as well as yourself.

We have had our first few wedding hiccups, but we have gotten through them. It looks like we now have a photographer and are starting to look at caterers. I even ordered the save the dates. So although it is stressful, things are starting to come together.  Hopefully things in life will slow down soon, but you never know.

- Lauren

I'm personally not that stressed. I mean, sure, there are some things I'm stressed about, such as the photographer thing. However, I think I'm handling everything ok. I'm excited about starting to do more planning actually. I feel like plans have been in limbo for a couple of months since the wedding was so far away. I can't wait to send out the save-the-dates since that signifies to me even more that the wedding's getting closer.

Everyone I talk to about it seems surprised that I'm working on wedding stuff, too. I don't see it as being that weird. I don't really care that much about the design decisions or the color scheme or things like that, but it's our wedding so we should both be invested in it. I think Lauren's a lot better at doing research than I am, so I feel like my part of the whole process is to call folks to make arrangements and to make sure everyone stays calm, cool, and collected.

- Ryan