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A wedding hater planning from afar

Tuesday Jun 16 2009 15:37:34

By jewel_peacock

4 days away and finally making progress! H2B FINALLY sat down last night to do the table plan, and I only had to make a few tweaks to it today. Quite pleased with it, almost everyone should be happy with where they’re sitting at least.

Yet another late night last night, up till 1am again doing printing and things. I’m getting there slowly, I’m keeping a list of things so I can track how I’m doing, everything takes ages!:
- Table plan – Need to print the names onto card
- Order of the day – Half printed (25 of 50)
- Table numbers – Need to print onto card
- Place names – Done
- Menus – 2 more to print onto card

All this needs to be done by the time I leave tomorrow afternoon, and I’m still working till then! Once I get to Mum’s I can start sticking things together, I might even do some of that on the train back.

Having a few problems with the framers for H2B’s certificate, they told me when I ordered it to ring them on the Monday (yesterday) to check it’d be done by tomorrow, so I did. Rang once, the guy told me he was with a customer and to ring back in half an hour. I did, spoke to a woman who said she’d ring me back and didn’t. So I rang again this morning and the same guy was very abrupt with me and told me it’d be ready. It’d better be! I’ll be furious if I get there tomorrow and it isn’t. Don’t think I’ll be using these guys again.

Also having trouble with the DJ, H2B rang him last night to ask about him setting up the equipment before the wedding to avoid having speakers and stuff dragged about at the end of our meal, and he said if we wanted that it’d be an extra £150. I don’t think so! This DJ’s costing us £375 as it is, which is a fortune for someone so bog standard. And he only lives up the road from the venue so it’s hardly a long trip. Definitely won’t be recommending them either – BJ Entertainments in Kent if anyone wants to know who they are.

A small piece of good news though, the venue has managed to get the real ales we wanted so badly. Result!

Nerves or excitement havn’t kicked in yet, I’m too busy finishing off at work, printing stationery and worrying about the house being empty for 3 weeks. I’m sure it will once I’m back at Mum’s tomorrow night though, it better at least!

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A wedding hater planning from afar

Monday Jun 15 2009 12:11:56

By jewel_peacock

I can’t believe this – I’d thought that all the fuss about FIL2B wanting to bring his new girlfriend to the wedding had died down! But nope, found out at the weekend that he is STILL moping about it. Apparently the weekend before H2B’s family had a get-together and he started banging on about it again. I’m still furious with him for his behaviour not long ago (in my earlier blog posts lol), and now I’m even more angry.

I suppose I should be grateful in a way, H2B’s cousin (who told us about all this btw) really laid into him, telling him he should respect our wishes and to give it a rest. That was backed up by his other cousin and his wife. Even so, I can’t believe he’s still mouthing off – behind our backs no less! – about all this. What does he expect, are we supposed to welcome yet ANOTHER girlfriend with open arms, to our wedding? Is his new bird more important to him than his only son’s wedding? Grr it makes my blood boil. Both Mum and me are on red-alert for any comments made by him on the day – any mention of it and I’ll tell him exactly what I think of him, big white dress or no.

Even THINKING about it raises my blood pressure – I must stop stressing.

Speaking of stress, last weekend wasn’t very enjoyable for many reasons. H2B’s ‘lads’ weekend eventually involved me coming along too, and one of H2B’s mates (this guy we knew from uni who I didn’t like then and don’t like now) acted like a complete d*ck and pissed off our other mates. H2B was acting like a complete idiot too coz of this mate of his, and ended up drunk outside one of the bars, telling one of his best men that I didn’t love him etc etc.

So Best Man 1 takes me aside and tells me I need to ‘comfort’ H2B. I tried that on the way to the club but all he kept saying was ‘I heard what you were saying’ which totally confused me as I couldn’t think what that could be. I gave up in the end, when he gets like that nothing you can say will make it better. We ended up having a massive row over several non-related things (not the place to go into them here) and I stormed home with him following. I was mortified that we were even having this issue in public, I HATE public arguments.

Then we get home and H2B has the drunken munchies, so he starts to eat the special chocolates I brought back from the hen weekend that we were supposed to share in a quiet moment. I tell him no and he gets very aggressive. In the end I made him sleep downstairs with his d*ck friend and I slept alone upstairs.

He was very apologetic the next day, but now word has got around about our little tiff and everyone knows. He’s also managed to upset Best Man 1. When he left to go back to Kent last night he was all ‘I love you, can’t wait for next week etc etc’. I told him I was still angry and it would take a lot to make me forgive him. He asked me if I still wanted to marry him and I told him I didn’t exactly have a choice so close to the day.

Ain’t I the luckiest girl in the world?

5 days to go and I feel so loved. But anyway, plenty to do still and I’m off back to Kent on Wednesday for the final push. I have to do all my printing (order of service, menus, table numbers, table etc) before I go as Mum doesn’t have a printer. Grr why is nothing ever easy?

A wedding hater planning from afar

Thursday Jun 11 2009 13:50:24

By jewel_peacock

We’re into single figures! So much to do, so little time, but I think I’m starting to get on top of things.

The place cards have been written out (after 2 hours of trying to find the damn things lol), and I spent last night decorating my little sister’s flowergirl basket with purple organza ribbon and supergluing all my fingers together in the process! Not the easiest thing to do with 2 cats trying to sit on your lap and me being distracted by the footy!

I’ve also made a start on the Order of the Day things, having a few probs with them but need to sit down and look at them closely, so might do that tonight. Still waiting for H2B to finish the table plan before I can start putting it together, and I need to finish it by Sunday so I can get him to take it back to Kent with him, there’s no way I can carry it on the train next week.

The plan for this Saturday was that we’d have a big BBQ and invite all our mates to celebrate the last ‘free’ weekend, but H2B has invited so many of his mates it’s now turned into one big lads weekend and we don’t have any more space for my own mates to stay. I’m pretty peeved really, looks like I’ll be staying home alone but I can’t say too much to H2B or I’ll just ruin his weekend too. Can’t say we’re really in the best of places right now.

I’m still waiting for both the DJ and the florist to ring me as both said they would this week and nothing yet. The venue also hasn’t told me if they’ve been able to get the beers we wanted in yet either.

Anyway, still loads to do, and still not excited in any way. My lack of enthusiasm is starting to worry me. I don’t think it helps when I’m so lethargic and run-down as I am at the moment.

Off back to the Docs this afternoon, got to my appointment on Tuesday to find that it had been cancelled without them telling me! Time is short enough at the moment without having to do another visit.