when in doubt

In etiquette, I usually refer to my handy copy of Emily Post, given to me on my first day working at a high end boutique.

However, in a bind, one might find help from...

wait for it...

http://www.etiquettehell.com/smf/index.php?topic=62756.0

i loves me some internet...

pre-emptive thanks

I am so thankful for the detail oriented people in my life right now, including but not limited to my future husband, a key bridesmaid, the restaurant manager and my florist.

FH is doing a ton of work right now for the wedding, not least of which is making sure we pay everyone and that we have enough money to pay for everyone, also, dealing with his mother. Came home the other day to him on the phone with her, "but mom, I'm not going to know the difference between fuschia and marroon tissue paper" re: the welcome bags, ie, not my job.

For someone like me who just wants to zone out to How I Met Your Mother, details are the bane of my existence. Second only to....

Table assignments. Doing this sucks. My issues right now include

• The old people table, they're all old, invalid and may get lost on the way to the bathroom...seat them all together or assign them to their children?
• Parent's random friends..sitting with them would be like sitting at a table with Eeyore.
  
• Who to put upstairs? I don't want to insult anyone, but people are going to be sitting upstairs. I'm going to try to make it a party up there.
• Where do we sit? This is an issue
• How to pad the in-laws tables...because non of FH's extended family is coming...

Knowing that none of this is going to matter in 3 weeks is so comforting...

30 Percent Rule Holds!

They (who's they? I don't know, people who have been married or the WIC, take your pick) say that 30% of your guest list will say no. Well guess what, for our almost 300 person guest list, this is entirely true.

It gives me such a sense of relief that our restaurant/reception venue won't be overrun with too many people.

Now about that rumor that 5 percent of the people who said yes won't actually show. Do people do this? How can this be true? We're not taking any chances and just giving the number we have. If we have to eat 10 placesettings (an entire TABLE?!?!), I'll be pissed, but not until after I get back from my honeymoon.

bmaid gifts

Picked them up from Amy at birdhouse jewelry at the brooklyn flea, she also has an etsy store...

blip

my future mother in law made rehearsal dinner invites.

I see no point in rehearsal dinner invites. and said so.

they look like an invite to a met's game.

blip.

that's me not caring and letting go. (visual includes downing glass of wine)

new thought

dear weather.com,

please look into 30 day outlooks. i'd like to stress over that which i have no control.

yours,
lb

1. month. to. go.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE

i'm nervous, excited and stressed about little details.

and therefore eating mint choc chip breyer's ice cream for dinner with red wine.

and f-ing with my birth control so i don't have my period on my honeymoon, which may be making me crazy.

dress fitting tonight.