Delegate, delegate, delegate

Mom is making our binding cloth, and looking for an appropriate altar cloth. Pam is making our favor cards. Two big artsy projects that I don't have time for are handed off to capable people with more free time than me. Yay.

Next weekend we need to find whatever other incidentals are necessary for the ceremony, and finish whatever notes I owe Katie. And there's music to sort out, too.

The weekend after that is probably our wedding shower, and then I have my dress fitting the following weekend. Mid-week after that is our RSVP date, so then I can start talking real numbers with all of our vendors and finish paying for things.

I'm guessing there's another dress fitting in there somewhere, and a weekend retreat (very small bachelorette party highly focused on relaxing and not coordinating a bazillion people), and all of a sudden we'll be in the last weekends of our single lives!

I know there's a slew of intervening weekdays, but with my travel schedule I can't capitalize on them as fully as some brides-to-be. There's also two Sabbats and two full moons left, and work keeps dangling the prospect/threat of international travel out there to keep my stress levels high and all of my senses hyper-acute.

Most of the time I feel like I have a lot of it under control... but every once in awhile I get panicky and feel completely overwhelmed. Usually when other people try to help, and in the process attempt to enforce their priorities and personal interests. Then I get stressed and uncertain. But when I step back, look at the spreadsheets, and remember that I've got 90% of it sorted, 5% isn't important and the other 5% probably won't work out the way I planned anyway... we're okay.

3/4 of the wedding is already paid for. The remainder we have set aside in savings. Our vendors (well, the ones I get to talk to directly), are on task and very clear on communicating what they need from me and when they need it. Most of our guests see no need to invoke the drama llama, which is better than it could have been... given that we have two sets of divorced parents, each with their own new SO, who are all coming to the wedding.

Now that I have my top to-dos done, or delegated, it's time to make a new to-do list. Exactly two months and counting... and then I'll need a new gigantic project to take up all my free time.