A few months before we were engaged, I was told that I would be a good wife because I am extremely organized. (Which is definitely true). I was told that my organizational skills should be the basis of my "pitch" for
wifehood. Obviously I don't think I needed to pitch my "qualifications" to Jimmy or anything, but I do (for better or worse) pride myself in my ability to organize (and possibly obsess over) lots of things.
This weekend we contacted a bunch of
Etsy sellers for various secret elements of the wedding (maybe monkey butlers, who knows) but also for boutonnieres for the guys.
I don't want cut flowers for the wedding so the boutonnieres are all either dried things and different textures of fabric, etc which is perfect. I'm then going to try to make coordinating fabric bouquets (with Anna's assistance, of course) which I'm pretty excited about. And then everyone gets a keepsake! Everybody wins. Here's what ours will be based off but with our specific color choices:
So cute! (yes, Jimmy was involved in the selections of these. Don't worry.)
I also, (perhaps obsessively) made an Excel grid of the other elements of the wedding that we need to make arrangements for or make ourselves, etc. It's very color-coded and it's full of formulas and I'm definitely more excited about in than Jimmy is but I think he still appreciates the work that went into it.
Jimmy's working on the music almost exclusively which is good for me because it seems so daunting at this point. I mostly search for things we've decided we want and present Jimmy with the ones I like best. Then we pick from there. It's a very involved process and I'm sort of grateful for the huge rain storm this weekend so we could stay in and figure everything out.
Soon I'm making Jimmy talk about our honeymoon plans on here (hint: It's not as icy as its name suggests and it's greener than its neighbor's name suggests the neighbor is...wait. I think I lost it somewhere. Anyway, it's Iceland).
