Hair, Favors, and Music

Eric and I have been working more on wedding plans, especially since the big day is only 4 months and 2 days! We realized we needed to figure out our music so we could let the people who are singing at our wedding know, but I still haven't told one of them what songs we're doing. I need to get on that. We picked all of our music, and I'm very pleased with our choices. It was a tough call which song to use for our recessional-there were 2 or 3 that we really liked so finally we just picked one. We're hardly going to be in the church for that part anyway. Now we just need to let the church know which songs we're doing and figure out how to get the actual music to our cantors so they can practice, and figure out when they can practice with the organist if they even can. I hope the two of them will be able to get together before the wedding to practice together. We're having one of Eric's RA friends and a friend of ours from high school. They're both really good (otherwise we wouldn't have asked him) so I'm very excited for the music.

For some reason I got caught up looking at possible wedding updo's online last night, and of course once I started I couldn't stop. There are some really funky hairdo's out there, for lack of a better word. I can't believe some people would have their hair like that for their wedding. Then there were a lot that I thought were pretty but just not right for me. I did find a good number of hair do's that were fantastic, pretty much perfect. I want something simple, but not boring, and it has to be beautiful and fancy and elegant. I know, simple and fancy? I'm pretty sure that's a contradiction. We shall see. One thing is certain, my hair will look great. I'm going to eventually have to schedule a trial run for a couple of weeks before the wedding, and then the actual day of, plus my nails, and my bridesmaids' nails, and their hair, etc., etc., etc. Whew I'm going to be busy over the summer!

While I was looking for wedding updo's, I was directed to a webpage that supposedly had some ideas. I didn't really find anything but the website itself was a do it yourself wedding suggestion kind of thing, and I only briefly looked at it, but I think it might have some great ideas, and not that expensive. In fact, I think I found what I want to do for our favors, besides the little candy bag things we're doing. I've wanted all along to do something else, and something that is special or unique to Eric and me, but there really hasn't been anything that is plausible or affordable. Even the thing I found doesn't have any special significance, except that it's really cool. I'm not going to share it yet since we're not sure we're going to do it, and I don't know if Eric would want people to know everything we're doing for the wedding (plus he's concerned it will be out of season but I say who cares? what's practical about a wedding?) so I will wait to say what it is, but it's a really fun, cool, and probably inexpensive idea. I'm very excited. Later this week we're going to go shopping for it, and soon we're going to have to start shopping for decorations (I realized earlier today or late last night that I have no clue what we're going to do for pew decorations, oh great), and hopefully soon Libby will call from Epiphany about when we can do all the things we still need to do. I'm getting very annoyed, because it's about 4 months to go, we still have a ton to do, and she is very, very slow in getting to us. I think it's rude-Eric called over a month ago and she said she was working through the July weddings. I think it's about our time. I already don't know how we're going to fit everything into our schedules, plus the other wedding plans. It's getting to the point where I'm going to be the slightly annoyed but still polite bride. And to the point where I've started to have dreams about the wedding. Only one that was borderline "nightmareish". I'm sure once it gets even closer, I'll probably have more, and worse, dreams. Can't wait for that to happen.

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