What? Consecutive posts on wedding planning?

Wedding planning can feel so overwhelming at times.  Even though I think we've made huge strides this weekend in getting things organized and together, there is still so much to get done.  Don't worry, I'm not freaking out... yet.  However, I think that if I don't have at least a couple of appointments set up to meet with DJs by the end of this week, maybe I'll be a bit closer.  One of my amazing bridesmaids, Katie, said to me weeks ago (actually it's more like months ago) that if I could just secure the DJ and officiant, everything else will fall into place.  It wasn't all that long ago that she planned her own wedding so you would think that I would listen and heed her advice.  The girl is one of the most fabulous planners I know and her wedding was so wonderfully put together.  She knows what she's doing and she knows me so yeah, totally should have listened to her.  

Sadly, I cannot go back in time but once this post is finished I'm officially sending the man who DJ'd for her wedding an e-mail and actually research a couple of others.  For real, this time.  It is my mission before I allow my head to rest on my, oh so comfy, pillow.  Not the most thrilling mission of my life but an apparently more challenging than I anticipated.  It's almost funny; I have almost no reason to not have pinned these two down yet.  It wasn't more than a month after returning from Paris that I had selected my venue, date, and a photographer.  At that point, I only had two more large pieces to really settle.  Two more corner pieces before beginning to fill in the puzzle and I just didn't do it.  

Though I have to admit, I'm not that surprised.  It's kind of amazing that I'm as far along as I considering how I'm a perpetual procrastinator.  You know that person who allows days and days to pass by before suddenly jumping up during the middle of dinner frantically realizing, "Oh crap! That twenty page paper on Comparative History of World Civilizations up to the 1800s is due tomorrow?!?!  I haven't even started it yet!?"  The person who, after stuffing her face with one final dinner roll races from the cafeteria and proceeds to stay up all night and next morning slaving over it, talking like an insane person to their printer because it's printing too slowly, and literally running to her class to make sure she passes it in on time?  You know that person?  I do too; I'm her.  Please forgive the horrible punctuation in this paragraph.  

Anyway, I'm just under seven months before the wedding and I haven't gotten there yet.  So long as I get everyone settled by the end of this month, I'm pretty sure I'll be okay.  Also, with the help from my parents tonight, I'm pretty sure Dave and I are close to finalizing the guest list.  I must say, that it was the most difficult part of the planning so far.  It's times like these where I wish I was rich or had begun saving a decade ago.  It's really heartbreaking to come to the conclusion that you can't invite someone because if they respond with a yes, you probably won't be able to afford to feed them.   My mom says that having 75-90 people will feel so much better than having more because it will be difficult to interact with them all in such a short time.  I will say, that's something that's very important to me.  I've been to weddings where I only know the bride or the groom and you spend almost the entire time there never saying more than, "You look beautiful/handsome.  Congratulations."   I don't want that to happen to our guests.  

Hopefully though, the majority of our guests won't be afraid to take off their high heels, ties, or jackets and get their groove on because really, that's where I want to be: dancing, laughing, and connecting with everyone we care about.   Now, if I just need to find that DJ or else I'll be forced to designate someone to take charge of the songs on my iPod and figure out how to hook it up to their system.