Planning a Wedding in Six Weeks

Thanksgiving

If it sounds incredibly stressful that's because it is. Three weeks before Michael officially asked me to marry him we decided to get a head start on the wedding. At first he thought we'd just go to the courthouse with our best friends, sign the papers, and have a lazy winter break before our move. That's not really what I wanted. We talked about having a small family gathering, and then a party with our friends the next day. Then we set a date and went into overdrive.
While visiting Prescott my mom bought a few things here and there, and we starting making an invite list. I had a dress in mind from a certain website and went ahead and ordered it (it's here, and it's awesome). I also have my shoes, some pretty new spiral tapers for my ears, some sparkly things to put in my hair and a fake fur wrap to keep me warm.
We had a lot to figure out, and quick. How big will this be? Michael's family is huge and my mom kept trying to make me invite obscure relatives. We had no choice but to leave some people out. Michael's mom stepped in and helped me straighten a lot of things out. Surprisingly we have a lot of things set already. A photographer, someone to do my makeup (and probably hair), chairs are set to rent, we've got a space heater set to rent...and a lot of other stuff. The cake was the first thing taken care of and I'm excited to see it. It's gonna be tasty with a chai spice cake and chocolate mousse filling.
But I still kind of feel like I'm going crazy. All we have to figure out is some last minute smaller details but it's really difficult when the bride and groom don't live in the town they're marrying in. I told myself I wouldn't try to plan a wedding with my mom either, and I've been forced to do so, and last time I saw her I told her she was driving me nuts. Sometimes I feel like my own wedding is slipping out of my hands and I have to get a hold of it again.
When Michael visited we were all over the place. We got him fitted for a tux, he got a new jazzy top hat, we bought flowers for the bridal party and the relatives, we got an invitation kit (instead of my mom making them herself one by one, I wasn't sure how long that would take) we bought candles and were pretty much constantly busy. I didn't sleep as much as I wanted to and was super worn out by the time we had to head back to Phoenix.

I mean we got some friend time in and had some fun, no doubt. But if we were at his parents house we were usually making a decision of some kind, like invitation font and wording.
We're still figuring out food at the small reception. My family is being really weird and wanting to buy cheap stuff and not listening to me. So that sucks. I'll figure it out though.
I'm really excited to have my ring! I sort of helped him pick it out months ago when we were looking through every stereotypical jewelry website ever and couldn't find anything. But Michael found this website and I really liked a lot of the designs. I'm not a diamond girl either, diamonds are just boring and overrated.
I decided on the double infinity design with a pear cut sapphire. The style is called reverse cradle, which means when we get our bands mine will fit inside my engagement ring, so I won't have a pile of jewelry on my finger. It's simplistic and beautiful and I can't stop looking at it :)
So from here on out my blog updates will probably be wedding related, and then I'll be talking about our epic move to Oklahoma (once I have internet again). We're going to attempt to register to let people know what we need but so far we haven't made much progress. Ahh it's so crazy! My new life is on the very edge of beginning.