Wedding Bliss -

This morning has been...interesting. :) Ryan called me, as I was getting ready, at 6:30 this morning, saying he woke up late, and didn't have time to take the dog out. He is in a meeting as we speak up in Beltsville, MD, and absolutely could not be late for it. The guy who hired him, S., called him yesterday, noon-ish, to tell him that he will need to give a presentation, with the Regional Vice President in attendance, in today's meeting. Just lovely that S. gave him so much time to prepare! :-P

Poor Ryan. I told him that S. must have a lot of faith in him, to know that he will do well even with so little preparation. I've been praying for him about every 5 minutes this morning. Words of wisdom, give him peace, calm his nerves, etc etc.

Speaking of nerves, I sat behind quite possibly the world's worst driver this morning, who I will refer to from now on as "genius." Since I had to run by Ryan's apartment, I had to take a different way to work. You know those merge lanes that merge into lanes where cars are going normal speed, say, 55 or over? Well, genius decides to wait until the very last possible second, and darts in front of me, where she promptly slams on her brakes. Nice. Then I notice the single bumper sticker on her car, which reads : Drive Now, Talk Later, and depicts a woman with a cell phone. Let me tell you, I drive better when I'm on my phone, searching through my purse, and changing the radio station, all at one time, then genius does, ever. Every 5 seconds she was slamming on her brakes, despite the fact that the car in front of her was several car-lengths ahead of her, and not on their brakes. It was drizzling rain, a teeny tiny bit, and she's got her wipers on full-blast. Genius.

I've lived here all my life, and I've discovered that if you don't develop an extremely high tolerance for incompetent drivers, you will die before you reach 35. Because you will come across them every single day, numerous times. But every now and then, I just have to shake my head. Did I mention that I'm all for moving?? Okay, thanks. End rant. :)

Wedding stuff! I'm feeling much better today about wedding planning. It's funny, because I have all of these checklists--a 3-page checklist from the Reception Hostess, a 7-page checklist from the Reception Hostess, not to mention the checklists that I already turned in to the Events Coordinator, and to our pastor. I think they are just as much of a help to ME as they will be to them, as it is really quite helpful to have nearly every single, possible detail written down. Plus, they asked things that I hadn't even thought of yet, so I feel much better now.

I ordered the boxes for the centerpieces yesterday. I also noticed the big, cut-glass hurricane candle holder on my Mom's dining room table last night that would be perfect in the middle of the head table. I had been looking all over for one just like that. Our centerpieces, if you don't recall, are basically going to be like this:

Except we will have rose petals and votive candles surrounding it. The head table, I'm thinking, will have the big hurricane holder in the very middle, two smaller hurricane holders on either side, tons of rose petals, and more votives. Lots of rose petals, lots of candelight. That's the idea. :)

I also am working on our Reception playlist...Em is helping me out with getting mp3s for all of them, and then Ryan will need to give me his thumbs up/thumbs down for my song ideas. We still need to come up with a first dance song!

We have another session of premarital counseling tonight! Last session was on "the first submission", which dealt with what God calls husbands to do. This week is on what God calls wives to do. Did I mention how much of an amazing blessing counseling has turned out to be? Because, really, it's amazing.

Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday! :)

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