The Countdown Begins

I went to the gym today... in a full blown panic. I'm getting married in six months. SIX.FREAKIN.MONTHS.

Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

And can I also add ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggggggggggg.

When did it go from being FOREVER away (a.k.a. 13.5 months) to being like tomorrow (a.k.a. 6 months). Do you have any idea how fast 6 months can go by? Whoosh! (About that fast.)

Things I can cross off the Giganto-list-of-stuff-I've-decided-I-HAVE-to-do-in-order-to-not-die-on-my-wedding-day (overly dramatic Courtney is being overly dramatic):

• Save the data cards - check (I made them myself... I LOVE the way they turned out: Front / Back. They doubled as our Christmas cards.)
• Ceremony/Reception Location - check
• Select and Order Dress - check
• Book Photographer - check
• Find Hairstylist - check (just using my regular gal, I heart her, and this gives her incentive to not cut my hair too short prior to the wedding)
• Select Bridesmaid's dresses - check (Aren't they pretty!? They'll be cranberry colored)
• Select wedding colors - Cranberry, light pink, and bronze/taupe - check (unless I change my mind... again)

Things still looming:

• FINALIZE GUEST LIST!!! (p.s. this is the hardest thing on the planet to do! We ended up only sending save the date cards to like half our guest list b/c the darn thing is in such a state of constant flux and our venue has strict capacity limits which we're currently well above.)
• Order Bridesmaid dresses
• Select and book Caterer - this is eating at my soul
• Select and order veil
• Take engagement photos
• Find shoes
• Find "something borrowed"
• Figure out Honeymoon - we've tentatively dedided on Malaysia (it's got beaches, cool outdoorsy stuff, relatively affordable place tickets, it's not on the uber-strong Euro, it takes less than 30 hours to get there, and it won't be winter or monsoon or hurricane season, which is more than I can say for pretty much the rest of the planet)
• BOOK HONEYMOON BEFORE PLANE TICKETS GET ANY MORE EXPENSIVE!
• Figure out hotel accommodations for guests - EVERYONE keeps asking me about this!!!
• Figure out transportation to and from the wedding
• Find and book a florist
• Find and book a make-up person
• Figure out what I'm gonna do for Bridesmaids' hair and make-up
• Design and order/make Invitations
• Design and order/make Programs and Menus and any other paper stuff I might need
• Figure out chairs for ceremony
• Figure out decor for reception (This one item alone could take me all 6 months!)
• Buy wedding bands
• Find wedding present for Kyle
• Get marriage licence
• Get Kyle's dad certified to marry us (this will probably happen day of)
• Create/buy guest book
• Put together welcome baskets for out of town guests
• Firm and tone my flabby butt so I can wear a bikini on the honeymoon
• Find way to erase wrinkles from my forehead
• Find way to stop creating new wrinkles!
• Grow out my hair (think if I concentrate REALLY hard I can get it to grown an inch an month?)

Note that it took me 7.5 months to complete the stuff on the first list... how on earth am I going to finish all the stuff on my "still looming" list in just 6 months???

PLUS I have 8 other weddings to go to this summer. Yep. Including my own wedding I've got 9 weddings in 4.5 months. You do the math.

So yes, I believe the full blown panic was in order. Tomorrow I plan to do 900 sit-ups.