'Tis the season for weddings. It seems like everyone I know is getting married.
I'm in the bridal party for two weddings within 2 weeks of one another in June—in 2 different states. I have gone from being in exactly 1 wedding in the past (as a junior bridesmaid) to suddenly being in two at the same time and having TWICE the amount of prep to deal with. Both showers are in March. One Bachelorette is in March and the other is the weekend in between the two weddings in June. So it's kind of silly. It's CHAOS from now until March—and then there will be this dead-space of 2 months before the madness of June.
Of course, there will be preparatory work to be done for the weddings themselves in April and May but since the showers and bachelorettes are the two bridesmaid-run events, I'm thinking that the February/March period will be more insane.
To complicate matters one step farther, there are TWO AIKIDO SEMINARS in March. What is going on with the world?! March is not the only month in 2014, people!! I will have to miss one of the seminars due to a shower conflict but I should be able to attend the other in full—which should be a nice way to relax but since it will ultimately be just another place that I have to be at a specific time on a specific day, it might end up feeling like more of a chore.
Ah, well. When it rains it pours, I guess.
It's not all grim. These things are, at the heart of it, very fun. It's my obsessive-compulsive tendencies that are making me anxious about it. I want everything to run smoothly. I want everything to be done on time—and a lot of the pressure is on me to make that happen. I certainly have plenty of help—but help doesn't eliminate the pressure; merely reduces it.
This insanity is part of the reason I chose to adopt my "One Step at a Time" mentality for a New Years Resolution. I think I might have to get it tattooed backward on my goddamn forehead, though, because oftentimes I start cataloging all of these obligations at once and I start hyperventilating.
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I have two weddings to go to in June that are one week apart (one on Saturday, then one the next Sunday), but luckily I'm not IN either wedding (though Corey is in one of them). June is nuts for weddings, and I think your mid-twenties is nuts for weddings in general. My cousin has SIX weddings to go to this year so far! And then there's my own wedding (one more wedding for you to - hopefully - attend! sorry, haha)... so yeah, I have weddings on the brain, too.
Exactly! We're definitely at the age for the onslaught of wedding season. And attending weddings is totally fun!! Planning them can be fun too, but it's also stressful.
Weddings are lame.
(I don't mean that but I FEEL like I mean it 70% of the time)
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