Yikes!

These days just keep coming and the wedding date just keeps sitting there all calm and ready for me to get to it in (ack!) four days. I feel like things have been deliciously uncrazy so far (knock on wood) and only really anticipate a flurry of activity starting Thursday when houseguests start coming and there are parties and cooking and decorating to get done.

My mom got in on Friday and we spent the weekend cooking up treats for the reception and messing around with makeup. Heather, childhood friend and (lucky for me!) florist, emailed me pics of some sample bouquets she put together and I am SO excited! First of all, you should know that the bouquet we had originally imagined had red calla lillies in it, which didn’t seem like much of a problem until Heather actually went hunting for them. Everything at the flower markets and from her vendors turned out to be a bit orange or pink or purple in a way that just wasn’t working with the rest of the flowers in the bouquet. Even though I’d given her permission to get creative and told her not to stress over these illusive flowers, she was a woman obsessed. After awhile I think it became more of a personal mission to see if these flowers actually even existed at all. There were lots of pictures of them, but she was beginning to think they were altered digitally, or perhaps there was a week in there where slightly purple callas turned bright red. I’d sorta given up thinking we were going to randomly find them, so you can imagine my surprise when this picture came to me:

Red! A perfect red! I’m in love with these flowers. Aaaand in case you’re interested, here’s a pic of the sample pomanders that the bridesmaids will carry. The jury was sorta split on whether they liked the nontraditional shape and the pearls and all, but I am completely head over heels, so whatever.

As we’ve whittled our way down to these final few days, the tiniest of details all have to be attended to, and I’m not sure they’re things you can always anticipate. For instance, I wanted the traditional (but oh so lovely) Pachabel’s Canon for the processional, but then wasn’t sure how I was supposed to work the pause before I come down the aisle. Do I restart the song? Simply pause it? Start a new song? I finally decided on just using the Trumpet Voluntary by Clarke for my stretch. I played it for J yesterday and he looked at me and said, “Isn’t this the theme music from the CBS Morning Show?” Then there was a few minutes of nerd freakout, but it turns out that the theme song is actually something called Abblasen. Although, truly, I’m not sure what we were exactly worried about; Bill Geist jokes? Guests getting the uncontrollable urge to curl up on a couch with coffee?

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