10 Day Forecast
I can't believe the wedding is really just 10 days away. Things are going well on the wedding front, minus a small near disaster with my dress. Everything is coming together nicely and things are working themselves out. Adam quietly confessed before he left for work that he's excited. I'm excited and I'm excited that he's excited. And we're not overly excitable people.
I'm not letting the stress overwhelm me. I rarely convey super-stress-dom even when I am stressed beyond belief, but I'm not letting it get to me. I know what needs to happen and have my tasks prioritized. I know which things to let go if I simply don't have enough time, money, or sanity to get them done. I'm also really more excited about everyone being here and not worrying about whether people will approve or get along or wonder what I was thinking when I decided to do this particular thing or whatnot. I'm marrying my best friend and we're planning a great celebration involving most of the people we love (minus the few that can't be with us for various reasons). I'm excited to celebrate love - the love that Adam and I share; the love we share with our family and friends; love of the Earth; love of music and food and fun. When people ask why we didn't just run off to Vegas or elope, I always say that it's not because I'm so narcissistic that I need a whole day to be about me, but more that Adam and I both value community. A wedding to us, while very much about our own personal union, is also about the joining of our communities of family and friends. Weddings and funerals are some of the only times that people make efforts to be together - not just my side of the family or his side or one group of friends or another, but all of them at once. We're getting married because we love each other and want to spend our lives together. We're having a wedding because we love all of you and want a good excuse to bring you all together - with tears of joy, not sorrow.
