Seven quick worries and consolations

The not-so-exciting parts:

1. Everything is done. But I have that sort of upset stomach feeling you get (well, YOU probably don't get, YOU are well-adjusted) when you are only Ostensibly In Control. For all the "Maggie is the wedding planner! Hee hee!" talk, I don't know the majority of the guests, I have nothing to do with the catering and I still don't really know what is happening during a two-hour block tomorrow, an issue with which, again, other people would be JUST FINE but has reduced me to anxiously standing in front of the refrigerator shoving toffee bars into my maw at midnight.. Is there any medication for Control Freak? 

2. I went to an accessories shop in the mall to look for a pin or flower or something for my hair. I came home with an antiquey-looking fake-diamond head wrap thing. LOVE IT. But it was so pretty I offered it to my sister who's going to wear it after she takes off her veil. So. Still nothing for my hair. 

3. I am afraid my strapless dress is going to fall down. This is an entirely new fear for me as 1) I had a No Strapless Dress policy for a bazillion years and 2) if I HAD worn a strapless dress there was no WAY it was going to fall down. Ahem. But now, if I wear Supportive Undergarment Number One, I can barely breathe. And if I wear Supportive Undergarment Number Two, the dress looks and feels better, but the back tends to slide down a bit too far. We're wearing little shrug things, but since mine makes me look like a bit of a linebacker, I don't want to wear it the WHOLE time. Phillip has been put on alert. 

4. People are using my house as Home Base. I'm the only wedding-affiliated person who happens to live in the same town as the wedding (except for the FPC, but her apartment is not ideal for Home Base-ness.) I am excited for this, since Phillip and I are fans of Donating Our Space To The Cause - As Long As We Have An Appropriate Amount Of Recovery Time Afterwards. We're going to buy a ton of snacks and clean everything up and get out the ironing board for my brother and make sure everyone has a key. What we don't have is bathroom space, which I think is going to be necessary. We have three bathrooms, but they are small, dark and without any counter space whatsoever. This is to the detriment of a dozen girls who will probably be getting ready here. Not something I REALLY have to worry about, but I am going to ANYWAY. 

5. Because our house is going to be Home Base, I don't know if my kids are going to nap. Not to mention that the wedding is at 3 and these guys haven't been waking up till 4 or 4:30 even. ALSO not a huge deal, but I would really really like it if they were adorable and charming at the wedding instead of bratty and whiny. The fact that I will be gone way before that and Phillip and his parents are in charge of the kids should I mean I am not worrying about this, BUT I AM. 

7. I am also the tiniest bit bummed that I won't get to dress up my kids. Hopefully they'll still be sleeping when I leave for the church, which means OTHER people are dressing them which means SOMETHING will not look right. I am sure the first thing I'll do once I have access to my kids is fix Molly's headband. Besides, it's FUN to dress them up. BOO. 

But 

1. God Provided in the whole broken down car situation and when my sister called last night she sounded elated and relieved, a nice change from the tight and stressed. She and her fiance were going out to dinner and I thought, "Yes. Go out to dinner and have a nice night to yourselves before your family descends and makes you wish you'd eloped. And by "family" I most likely mean "your control freak older sister who forced you into seating charts.""

2. As of this morning I have officially lost all the weight I gained during NaNoWriMo and this is helping assuage the control freakiness. As in, there's still SOMETHING I can do about SOMETHING. 

3. I am SO excited to take pictures and POST them. I have all these Style Lush post ideas, one involving a Santa voodoo doll. YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE. 

4. Even though the day AFTER the wedding is the Giant My Side Of The Family Christmas and I think we're going to be exhausted, I'm really looking forward to that as well. Everyone in my family genuinely likes each other and gets along, which I know sounds kind of stupid, but the older I get the more I realize that's not always in the case in other families. 

5. Okay, maybe this is more of a worry, but I am a crier. Like, big time. I have bawled during every important event in my life AND the important events in OTHER people's lives and I may or may not be a hot sobbing mess at the altar. (I barely made it down the AISLE at my own wedding.) So, this is not good for the FPC's pictures, but I'm ALMOST looking forward to THAT as well. Weddings! Are beautiful! (This is where both of my sisters roll their eyes and pretend I am not here.) 

6. My SIL is going to do my makeup. THANK THE LORD. 

7. At bedtime when we say our prayers, we ALWAYS pray for Aunt FPC and Uncle FPC's Fiance. I love that he is now going to be OFFICIAL. 

Bonus! This is for you, Elizabeth - my bridesmaids and me. 

 

FPC, Other Sister, Me, My Maid of Honor in whose wedding I will be bridesmaiding in June (IN HAWAII!) 

Thanks for enduring my endless and not-terribly-entertaining wedding posts. If anyone is very concerned about my welfare they may subscribe to my Twitter feed - I will have access to an iPhone and I know how to use it. XOXO

Comments

[Ashley]

About the bathroom conundrum- perhaps set up a couple card tables in one room with various mirrors from around the house for putting on makeup?

[Jess]

Love the picture! I know now is the time to fret, but things will go great and even if there is a minor snafu or two, nobody will notice. It will be awesome and I hope you have a wonderful time!

[Elizabeth]

Oh, Maggie, you are SO beautiful in that wedding picture, I GASPED. You can see the happiness just glowing out of you!
Therefore you are NEVER allowed to make any self deprecating wedding comments ever again.
And make sure you HAVE FUN at this wedding, while you are crying buckets, of course.

[Sarah in Ottawa]

FPC looks so YOUNG in your wedding photo. And you all look lovely!

Have an amazing time tomorrow - and good work!

[Lisa]

What a weekend! And don't forget to post a pic of your family in front of the prom-style backdrop!!!

[Nessa]

Umm, you and your other sister look exactly alike!! I love it. I wish I had a sister to look like.

Anyway, super excited and doubt you will get this in time - BUT - double sided tape for the back of your dress. My wedding dress ended up being too big (shocker!) and my bra kept showing so we just stuck some tape up there and viola!

Hope you have a blast and an amazing time and I love weddings and a merry christmas on Sunday.

Sorry about the rambling. I get excited about weddings and have had no sleep.

[Christiana]

Love the picture. I really like your bridesmaid dresses.

On the strapless thing - have you seen the fashion tape at Bed Bath and Beyond? I prefer it for taping fabric to fabric (like gaping button plaquards), but you can use it to tape things to flesh, too, if needed. They usually have it near the counter or in the section w/ the spa-like stuff at the stores here.

[jackie]

Dude, you are so gorgeous! I love the color you chose for bridesmaids :)

[Susan]

Have fun! My sisters had strapless dresses at my wedding and I know it sounds crazy but they used wig tape to keep it up and it worked great! Good luck to everyone!

[antonia]

good luck!! xxx

[Jenn]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who has sobbed their way through important life events. I have not watched the DVD of my sister's wedding because there I am, crying at the front of the church. And the only reason I did not cry at my OWN wedding? Is that we eloped, got married in a park by our neighbor (he was a Methodist minister, not just somebody we picked out of nowhere) and there were kids playing hackeysack in the park. Playing haceysack at our wedding, which was pretty awesome.

Have fun this weekend!

[Jen @ The Short Years]

I too love the color you chose for your bridesmaids. Beautiful. I also love that you are still close to all your bridesmaids. It probably helps that two of them are your sisters, but there is one bridesmaid of mine who (obviously) used to be a close friend, and now it's been more than two years since we've had a non-Facebook interaction. It just makes it nicer to look at your wedding pictures and know that these are still important people in your life.

[HereWeGoAJen]

I was going to say card tables too. With all the mirrors you can borrow and some of those power strips for plugging things in.

I love seeing pictures of other people's weddings. Beautiful.

[Kate P]

I hope everything went very well. You look lovely in that picture! (And of course you are totally hot these days!)