This afternoon, I received an email from my extremely organized wedding catering manager, reminding me that our wedding tasting request form is due late next week in anticipation of our scheduled tasting coming up. Her e-mail also included a long list of things that I need to get to her by a few other target deadline dates, including a final head count and a full timeline of our day. While I very much admire and appreciate her organization, I felt knots in my stomach going through her email. It’s like the word “stress” was written all over that e-mail without her even trying.

As I looked over her list and looked at my own list that I have shared with Chris on Evernote, I could feel my heart racing, thinking, we really have to do all this by ourselves? Really? This is why people elope and have secret weddings at City Hall and don’t plan weddings with other people; it takes so much time, effort, money, and stress, and likely a few arguments with people you are working with, including your fiance and friends, along the way. I keep reminding myself that all of this will be worth it once the wedding week comes up. Everything just takes time, and I need to take this all day by day, line item by line item, and everything will be great.