I seemed to have passed through the Three Week Zone (thanks James) relatively unscathed. In fact it has now been four weeks since I proposed and although there will always be doubts at the back of my mind they seem to be staying there. In the week since emerging from the TWZ a fair bit has been organised...
It seems that a lot of people think that three or so months is not enough time to organise a wedding. That makes sense if you are trying to find the right reception venue and the places you want are booked out. Well, we had already settled on a date because it fitted in with uni holidays and a few other things. Then last weekend Katrina's parents went to look at a few places. On Monday we were taken to their first choice which is perfect for a range of reasons. We loved it. Anyway, a couple of days later it was booked :)
We also had to think about booking some sort of holiday to have after the wedding. It's such a big world - what should we do? Well, several things came together and key things have been booked. We'll be starting a Honeymoon Destination Guessing Competition soon...
Closer to hand, we have also sorted out plans for the engagement party. (Just need to sort out invitations. We have connections for the printing of them which makes that part easy. The harder part is working out the list...)
Three points for the moment but these are fairly key things so we think we're doing well.
Any married people reading this? If you would like to give any advice of what else to keep in mind that would be good too :)
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Howdy.
I had lots of advice about a year ago... lets see what I can remember.
Random things.
First of all, in the next 3 months of craziness, with everyone else (probably including close friends and family) thinking about preparing for the wedding, you need to make your focus preparing for your marriage.
Which is quite a different task.
The Anglicare Marriage Prep course was really good... mainly because it made you talk about a whole bunch of stuff that you wouldn't normally get a chance to talk about.
It makes you adjust your expectations; because it's your differing expectations that you'll get into most fights about. (i.e. who's responsibility is it to do X, Y, or Z?)
If you aren't able to book in, I could probably lend you my book to go through. Just set down a day to talk about it.
Oh, and keep praying.
Ah, good - Katrina had been given a brochure on that and we were planning on enrolling. We are aware of some of the things you mentioned. But having a vague idea that we will be coming into this with different expectations is very different from facing such issues in reality... Which is why we thought the course could be good. I'm glad that it's gotten another recommendation.
man you guys are like adults now.
scary, huh?
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