The Wedding Planner

[ailbhe]

So today Rob and I...

1. Bought Rob's cufflinks.
2. Bought my nephew's birthday present (he will be one year old 3 days after the wedding; we will be in Norway and he will be back in Ireland).
3. Bought hinges for the cupboard under the stairs so that the house will be habitable by the time we have guests.
4. Booked three of my sisters into a hotel; checked that their rooms will be very close together and that there will be adequate space for a cot for my nephew; got a full listing of who has booked which rooms.
5. Found some hairdressers' details so that I can book a wash-and-blow-dry appointment for one of my sisters for the morning of the wedding. Been warned off the cheapest one as it is apparently not very good.
6. Sort of found a possible solution to the problem of parking at the venue; we need space to park one car so that my (heavily pregnant) sister won't have to walk in the hot summer sun.
7. Looked at camp beds and sun loungers so that I can put one in the mother and baby room, alongside the nursing chair, so that very pregnant people can lie down for a rest when their back caves in and stops working. At this stage, I have stopped caring about the cost. I'm not working and I wasn't paid my full salary for the last month I was working, so it makes no difference any more.
8. Rob has gone to buy the rest of the makings for the cupboard doors. Yay Rob.
9. Bought salt so that we can dye more towels. I'm also going to dye some of my old underwear that went grey in the wash.

So now we have to...

1. Post the deposit to the florist.
2. Contact the venue again to ask about parking again.
3. Choose and buy a folding bed of some sort; the futon we were hoping to use will be impossible to transport out of the venue, so we're not going to try.
4. Email the schedule for the next three weeks to a bunch of people who are organising things.
5. Choose and bok a hairdresser for my sister.
6. Get me a rubella vaccination.
7. Collect Rob's ring from the jeweller who was repairing it, and order the bridesmaid gift for the chief bridesmaid.
8. Chase the printer that I emailed on Friday evening for the ceremony booklets.
9. Make and hang the cupboard doors.
10. Dye more towels and count bedding; I bought more bedding yesterday in a sale so we can probably manage to accomodate all the people who will be staying in our house in our absence.
11. Repeat "I am not a bad person. I am trying to arrange things so that my guests have a good time. I can't do everything. I am not a bad person," until I believe it.

Comments

[firecat]

Oh that brings back memories! Aren't weddings fun!

[You're not a bad person.]

[redbird]

You not only aren't a bad person, you are taking incredible amounts of trouble for people. I'm reading all this about buying--and dyeing--extra towels and being impressed, because I'd probably have told the guests to bring their own, on the theory that you're still giving them a real home to stay in, free.

[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

same here, my wedding guests that are staying at my apartment (granted it's my two baby brothers) have been told to bring their own towels and that they will have to wash their own bedlinen before they leave. And they have to fly 3000 miles for that privelege!

[ailbhe]

If my family were to wash their bedding before they left, they wouldn't need the bedding, because they'd have to stay up most of the night to get it done on time for their flights. They don't exactly have any time off work for this.