Ready, set, plan!

Planning a wedding means getting organized! With more than a year until the nuptials, I should have plenty of time to get organized, right? Apparently, plenty of time is completely relative and I’m finding ‘plenty’ is actually not enough in some cases.

By many accounts, by which I mean various wedding magazines, Martha Stewart, and random people I’ve encountered in the past few weeks, the planning must begin NOW and the COUNTDOWN has BEGUN (so has the anxiety). So I decided to put together a checklist of what to accomplish so many months, weeks, day, minutes and seconds out from “I Do”. Seeking assistance, I signed up at TheKnot.com. Yes, I feel like I’ve joined the herd of brides-to-be but did I mention the anxiety has started and I’m more than 14 months out? They provide an impressively thorough checklist, from choosing a color scheme 9-11 months out to ensuring my veil and wedding hair work well together 6 weeks out. There are seven pages worth of stuff and here I thought I earned a huge check mark for finding a place and choosing a date. Oh, and the Knot people were kind enough to remind me I have 447 days to go.

All I know for sure is I’m marrying Hal at Round Hill on September 26, 2010, and that I’m already doing the sun dance so we have nice weather. It’s never too early to start on some things!