Where Does the Time Go (aka - we have 5 months!)

Got the friendly reminder email from the Knot.com today: Only 5 months left!

Excuse my language here, but shit!  We have a lot to do!

Crazy work schedules, combined with the holidays and being out of town every weekend except one since Christmas have left little time for wedding stuff.  So we're a bit behind.  Or at least feeling that way. That said, we're suddenly feeling very motivated and have gotten quite a few things accomplished in the last week or so:

• We booked a florist - woohoo!
• We scheduled tastings with our caterer
• We scheduled a tasting with a potential baker
• I scheduled my first dress fitting (and am now doing double time at the gym!)
• I scheduled my bridal portraits
• We tentatively scheduled our engagement shoot (finally!)
• I picked a weekend for my bachelorette party (hello, Austin!)
• We've picked a place for the rehearsal dinner & after party

I still have a long laundry list, but feel a LOT better having knocked a few things off our originally much longer list.

In the next couple of weeks we'll also knock out:

Loving this calligraphy...

• Booking a calligrapher
• Working on invitations
• Finalizing lighting and the overall floor plan
• Booking a baker
• Schedule our required pre-marital church counseling
• Plan the bridesmaids luncheon (or at least reserve the space)

I think know both B and I wish we could just fast forward to June 25th. However, if things keep moving at a lightening fast pace, like the past few months, our wedding really will be here before we know it. Let's hope!

Wedding Checklist Fail

I finally got around to adding a few things to my (very bad excuse for a) wedding binder.  The first thing in said binder is a wedding checklist from my planner, so I decided to see where we were with everything.

I knew we still had a lot left to do, but good grief, we are pretty far behind, at least per the checklist.  Here are the things that we should have done by now:

• Start thinking about stationery/wedding invites (in the July - September list)
• Select and book florist 
• Select and book caterer
• Send out save the dates 
• Order invites (in the October list)
• Select and order bridesmaids dresses
• Select and order baker for cake
• Register for wedding gifts
• Book transportation
• Book honeymoon
• Take engagement photos

Holy smokes!  What the hell have we been doing?

To be honest, we're pretty close on florist, caterer and save the dates.  And I'm planning to ask my creative guys at the agency design our invites, so no stress there.  I'm waiting on spring on the bridesmaids dresses, for the brighter colors to come out, we're planning on doing cake stuff in January and registry in February. And we already told our photographers that we'd prefer to do our engagement shoot in the spring.

So I shouldn't feel so bad....right?

Still..looking at this list and thinking about what we have to do gives me a mini panic attack every time! Ahhhhhhhh!