The first rule of wedding planning is...

You and your fiance are the only people expected to be excited about your upcoming nuptials. It is safe to say that every bride secretly 'expects' certain people to be excited and interested in wedding planning, simply because that's what friends and family do. I'm an exceptionally lucky girl because more than my 'expected' handful have announced their excitement, asked about potentially boring details or down right offered to help me. Yes, I am so very lucky. Perhaps because so many of these enthusiasts are unexpected friends, that the absence of certain peoples' interest feels exceptionally large. I'm not angry, I'm not trying to whine and say: people who aren't even supposed to care do and this person doesn't - how horrible is that? Because I know the rules of wedding planning and I know that no one is obligated to ask or to care. That doesn't mean that someones apparent apathy isn't going to down right hurt and make me feel like the total pitts. It wigs me out that I've allowed someones total disinterest hang such a cloud over my head, but it has and it hurts and that hurt gets displaced into anger and that's not right. I guess it's just the way it is, tough.

Anyway, here is the list of things we have to accomplish in the next year:
1. Find Someone to marry us (eek).
2. Transportation
3. Save the Dates
4. Invitations
5. DJ
6. Ceremony Music
7. Gather more vintage-looking cut bowls
8. Favors?
9. Bridesmaid dresses
10. Suits for Steve and the guys
11. Escort card fiasco (it's a battle right now)
12. Out of Town Bags
13. Hair/Makeup for me
14. I need shoes
15. Honeymoon - everything
16. First Dance
17. Details, details, details
18. Should we or should we not get a tent?
19. Parents gifts
20. Buy attendants gifts
21. Figure out where the cake is coming from
22. Rehearsal dinner location

...OK, I think that's it? Hopefully some of this can be accomplished during September since I have like 10 days off thanks to Jewish Holidays.