I can't believe we're exactly five months away from the big day. I can't really say it feels like it is coming fast because it honestly feels like it is coming along at an appropriate pace, if that makes any sense. Molly and I started dating on June 23, 2011, but it feels like we've been together forever (in the good way). We moved in together in April 2012, yet it is hard to remember a time when we didn't live together. We got engaged last July, yet it feels like we've been planning this wedding for years. While we still have some major things to get done before July gets here (stupid invitations), I'm really just ready for it to arrive. The wedding is going to be a blast, but I'm kind of ready for it to be over with so we can start focusing on the rest of our lives. The house buying project has become a decent diversion, but it serves as a reminder that this isn't 1955 and that we aren't exactly doing things in order. There's a firm chance that we will be in a new home before the wedding, so the day before the wedding and the day after the wedding are probably going to look pretty similar. Gone are the days where I carry my new bride across the threshold of our first cohabitation the day after our honeymoon. The biggest change will be that she'll shed a half dozen letters from her last name.
We've still got some of the "fun" stuff ahead of us, like cake tasting and menu tasting and showers and other high calorie occasions, but we're more or less kind of in a waiting pattern. I think most brides with five months to go are probably scrambling around putting on finishing touches, but Molly is currently in full on "cool-as-a-cucumber" mode. She spends her nights looking at houses, not scouring Pinterest for cute decoration ideas. She's organized and does things far enough in advance (I guess opposites do attract) that she's got us on track without too much more work ahead of us save for the aforementioned stupid invitations. The one thing that I still have to do is go suit shopping, but I'm not quite to where I want to be in the waist/chest area. I'm in that 36 pants area, but I really think I can hit 34 by April. My stomach, chest, and arms are all considerably smaller (I tried putting on a fairly new XXL shirt I bought and wore regularly through the winter, and I'm swimming in it), but I still have moobs and enough of a belly that I wouldn't be happy throwing my hands up now. My original goal was 215 by April, which I think would be close enough to 200 that my sizes would at least be similar. I'm still holding myself to that goal, even though it means March Madness is going to have to be pretty mad. Maybe, just maybe, this FB group will live on question mark?
Here's a Top 10 list of stuff that I specifically think we need to still focus on, written in the order I'm looking forward to it:
1. Menu tasting (I love this place and I love food, so I can't imagine I won't enjoy it)
2. Music selection for the reception (I love that you can more or less make the DJ's playlist on our own personalized wedding site. Remember to thank me at the end of the night.)
3. Cake tasting (I love cake, just not as much as eating pasta and doing the Bernie)
4. Suit shopping (All the hard work will finally be tangible when I can put on a suit jacket that isn't from a Big and Tall rack)
5. Picking wedding readings (You better believe you'll know it is a half-Jeff wedding when you hear what I find)
6. Creating our placecard holders (Mark my words, I will be missing a finger by the time that arts and crafts project wraps up)
7. Picking wedding hymns (Slightly less excited about this. Currently leaning towards "This Little Light of Mine")
8. Putting together seating charts (I have a feeling this could devolve into throwing darts at a board)
9. Picking out invitations (Stupid invitations)
10. Addressing invitations (stupid, stupid invitations
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