302 days

At the prompting of my sister and maid of honor, who is an 11 year old sage, I am going to be blogging for the next year about all the things that go into preparing for marriage, planning and executing a wedding full of southern charm and Irish traditions, all while falling more deeply in love with my fiancee.

We are getting married May 18th, 2013, which in my opinion is terribly too far away for my sanity. Right now we have all of the big picture details, church, officiant, bridal party, reception venue and the dress. I recently moved away from my hometown where we are getting married so I had to get all of those big details hammered out early. Now we play the waiting game.

I am learning a few things. There are a lot of things that it is good to do early.
1) Reserving the officiant, church and reception venue

2)Get a budget nailed out

3) Start getting in shape

But I am learning the hard and expensive way that there are a lot more things that it is important to wait till closer to the time.
1) Ordering invitations (this is an interesting predicament)

2)Asking friends to do things for your wedding

Most people get married in the 6-9 month range after they get engaged for a reason. This sitting on my hands thing is absolutely no fun. Luckily, I have several fun things coming up soon. My fiancee's family is throwing us an engagement party September 15th and my bachelorette party is 3 weeks after that.

So, I will be blogging through the process of choosing the details, celebrating and falling more in love.

Me and my best friend right after we got engaged!