Where we're at...

T minus 5 days people!!! Holy crap. Thoughts at this point....
I haven't posted nearly as much to this blog as I thought I would. Sadly, there just wasn't as much stuff going on with the wedding as I thought.
I need to remember to buy tonic. It has somehow escaped my list.
Oh. I have a list. It has day-by-day color-coded to-do's.
My list is roughly 3/4 a page long, and includes things like "bring dress to Fenton".
The "Bring" list items appear double - I have a separate list of things to bring.
That list is also color-coded by day.
I don't want to ruin the surprise, but I hope you like tequila. We bought 3 liters of it. And a TON of margarita mix. And we have a bartender. With blenders. :)
Because we aren't doing a traditional wedding, with a reception hall or ushers, we're trying to figure out how to let everyone know which table they're sitting at. We've thought about doing something like a baseball roster - several sheets of paper with people's names on them, each corresponding to a different table.... we've thought about doing the little name things with people's table assignments on them.... and for either of those- where do we put them? People will be pretty much coming around to the back of the house and sitting down for the ceremony, and then having to move for the food tent. Whatever.
I'm taking Thursday and Friday off from work so that I can spend time with Jessica figuring this kind of stuff out.
What's that? Am I anxious? No. I'm as cool as a cucumber. Its just another day... I mean- really - what is changing? Our tax information and her name. The way I feel about Jessica isn't changing. Our loyalty and devotion to each other aren't going to change. Our living situation isn't changing until we move to Columbus (neither of us have room for the other person's stuff, and we aren't about to get a big apartment for 1-2 months!)... so what changes? I mean, I really think that the big change was me asking her to marry me - that was a change in our relationship- going from being boyfriend/girlfriend, to knowing that we'll be together forever.
Still, I may end up in tears. (I'm definitely the crier out of the 2 of us.) I've only seen her cry twice, I think - once when things were on the rocks with her mom, and once early in our relationship when I challenged her to think about why she voted for Bush. (She thought I was attacking her- which I explained I was not- thats just how I debate ideas. She has never cried since then because of me)... I on the other hand, pretty much cry every other week. Mostly because of movies/TV shows. And I don't think I've EVER cried so hard as the time that we were watching "The Notebook" for the first time. I mean- come on! They died together in their sleep! (Sadly, I just got goosebumps thinking about it).
Uh.... wedding stuff.....
Oh - we have some things for people to do the day of our wedding! Err.... let me rephrase that.... We have some fun games that people might be interested in playing - we have a net for Volleyball OR badmitton- as well as 4 badmitton raquets and (get this) - a SHUTTLECOCK! I just like saying that. :)
We have lawn darts (blunt ones, sadly). We have bocce ball. We have a Nintendo Wii. We have board games. We'll have some photo albums so that people can laugh at us.... we'll have food. We'll have music (though no official dancing or dance floor - people are welcome to dance on the deck or in the grass if they want). The party lasts as long as you want (almost). Eat and run, or stay and play/talk - whatever people want to do is fine with us!
Anywho, we're excited to see how our day turns out - It makes it feel extra nice that we're doing things our way, and not giving in and doing things because other people want us to do them. Hopefully we'll post again before our big day!