Wedding Planning - Oh the Joys!

I've wanted to post a little more often about the process of planning our upcoming wedding (mostly for my personal record) and have simply not done that great of job. The countdown app on my phone now reads 58 days. We are almost halfway through March, and I know Jake and I will be on flights out to D.C. before we know it.

Side note: We did briefly discuss getting married on March 16. That would have been this weekend! Yikes! 

I know I would have moved a lot faster if our wedding date were sooner, but my days are still filled with constant wedding-related thoughts. I am VERY lucky at this point to have a pretty flexible schedule and have the time to dedicated to check things off my to-do list. I am also very lucky to have Jake be involved in everything. And that his school load this semester is a little lighter and allows him to be less stressed with that.

At this moment, (well not at THIS moment since I'm taking a break to blog), I'm finalizing the design for our invitations. Yes, I am designing them. And Jake is on his computer next to me finalizing some wedding odds and ends he can take care of online. He is the best!

So far my LEAST favorite wedding task is finding a dress. I'm not a glitzy, showy person, so I feel really uncomfortable in most dresses. Last week I end up ordering four—yes, four—dresses online from Macy's and Nordstroms. The last two—including my favorite one—are supposed to arrive today. We'll see if I have to venture to stores again. I hope hope hope not.

The first thing we did was find the date and then spent a week or two conversing with our families finding the best option for our reception. Everything has been pretty low-key and so far we've been good at checking things off our to-do lists.

Back in January, Jake and I created an overall list of everything we needed to get done. I compared it with our timeline and added all of our tasks on the appropriate dates with most tasks assigned to a week. Those tasks all show up on Sundays so we usually take a few minutes each week to review what we are focusing on that week.

This week our focus was housing! I've had a Google Doc spreadsheet with options I've found throughout the past several weeks. We've contacted a landlord and, while we are pretty sure we'll get the apartment, we are still waiting about reference approvals and being able to pay a deposit.

I feel like this post is a bit random. But just typing has given me some ideas for other post directions. Hopefully you'll be hearing from me soon!