One Month To Go...

Today is August 13. It's 11:26 pm. At this time, one month from now, Hilary and I will be married. It doesn't seem real, mostly because it feels like we've been engaged since Nam.

Most of the big details are taken care of, now it's all about the small stuff. Seating arrangements, decorations, gift bags - these are the decisions that stand to ruin rule our lives the next 4 weeks.

Today our invitation responses were due back; we are still shy about 20% of our guest list (hey - send those suckers in!), but we have a pretty good idea of who is coming and who is not.

One thing I have learned from this process is that, with 100% certainty, I am the worst wedding guest ever. I was always late with response cards, I never booked my room until the last minute, and most of my wedding gifts were purchased several months after the fact (which, though apparently well within the rules of etiquette, is still pretty lame of me).

For everyone who's wedding I've been to over the past few years, please accept my deepest apologies. Feel free to buy us our wedding presents next August if it will make up for it at all.

Since I know what it's like to forget to send in response cards, I am posting a link to our email address on the right-hand side of the blog for anyone who needs to respond.

We are hitting the home stretch, and I know it will be here before we know it. And thank God.