From 60 to 15.

Last night we had the pleasure of skyping with The Honorable Sid Espinosa. The plan was to run through the ceremony and talk about the outlined ceremony. We all thought it would only take an hour. At the beginning of the conversation, Sid asked Derek and I how far we felt we were into the whole process of the wedding. We together answered, quite confidently with, "About 60%." Sid, almost devilishly, threw his head back and laughed while replying, "I'm gonna say you're at about 30%."

Well, like pulling on that teeny tiny little snag on your favorite sweeter, once you start pulling, it starts unraveling, and unraveling, and unraveling. Now there are things on our new, upgraded, list that Martha Steward never mentioned or hinted even hinted at! And there's a reason for that, it's not pretty, and there isn't really a way to make a time lines,  photograph lists, guest bags, agendas, delegating, and seating  "pretty with a side of sparkle".

 After a four hour conversations with a lot of laughing and brain storming we decided that we were all wrong. We weren't at 60%, we weren't even at 30%, we're at about 15% done with our wedding planning and execution. There are so many little details that we might to give everyone a little role to play the day before or of the wedding.

I know in this blog I'm ragging on Sid a bit, but the truth is we are lucky to have him. He has been to so many weddings that if he wasn't so busy with changing the world I would totally hire him as our wedding planner. It was really great to have a look at all this now, because had we not even thought about this stuff till even a month from now, it's a possibility I would be pulling my hair out. Literally.

So... As  Calvine Coolidge said, "We cannot do everything at once, but we can to something at once." Let the delegating begin!