Wedding planning?

This weekend was fairly eventful with my parents coming down from Wisconsin, my brother and his girlfriend from Maryland, my aunt from the beach, graduation, Mother's Day, and a wedding.

I got to my grandmother's house Saturday morning at about 10:00. My brother, dad, and grandfather were leaving at about noon to head to the Nascar race in SC. All that I had planned was to sit down and rip all of the bluegrass cds my dad brought to my laptop. Little did I know that my other aunt was soon to show up and this was to become a wedding planning party. I had no idea and was actually quite taken aback since I figured nothing wedding related would be thought about let alone planned because of the tight schedule everyone had. I didn't even bring my wedding binder so when my aunt asked for the florist contract, I didn't have it to show her. :oP Some brides carry it with them everywhere they go.

At any rate, everything worked out, we got a bridal shower list finalized and the invitations made and filled out. They are so cute; I was really impressed!

At about 1:15 we left to go to the wedding venue to show to those who hadn't seen it and there was to be a wedding around 5:00 that day. I felt bad for not calling the owner first (he looked kind of upset), but we looked around anyway. It was actually really beneficial because I got to see what it would look like if we had to bring it inside because of rain (it was raining while we were there) and also what the barn looks like all decorated for a reception.

I'm glad we got going on the invitation stuff...I honestly think that's going to be the hardest part. Figuring out whom to invite to what and what everyone's addresses are. My brother's girlfriend was so sweet and helpful. She helped put the invitations together and had some really great additions and ideas for different things. If she lived here I'd hire her in a heartbeat to be my wedding planner.

A big theme on Saturday was delegating. My uncle's job now is to help figure out the hotel situation for the out of town wedding guests. I've done some research, but apparently it wasn't on par with my family's ideas on hotels, so he's going to look around and see if he can find a relatively inexpensive hotel closer to Weaverville. Which is fine with me because I'm done looking into any more hotels. It was driving me to insanity. Gotta get something cheap, but not too cheap, and nice not crappy, blah blah blah.

I wasn't stressed until Saturday. My family's stress rubbed off on me. Chris had to tell me several times the next day to chill out. I think I'm recovered now.

P.S. Our 2 year anniversary is on Wednesday. I think we'll go out (to Taco Bell probably--haha!) and then watch the season finale of Lost together. We're so romantic. It's actually quite a big deal considering Wednesday is a day he usually plays WoW. Haha ;oD