Dear Future Hubby,
We are having a wedding planner, end of story. I know what you’re thinking. Why hire someone to help plan our wedding when my Type A personality is going to overtake her and I’m just going to do everything myself? I’ll tell you why. Because it’s fucking exhausting.
See, the thing about me is I LOVE to plan parties. I love entertaining, I love cooking for people, I love everyone gathering and having a glass of wine. Not to toot my own horn, but I kind of rock at being a host. However, this can be beyond exhausting. Last night, I hosted my annual Oscar party which turned out wonderful. Tons of people, tons of food, tons of screaming in joy when The Hurt Locker won. The problem was about halfway through the ceremony I wanted to go to sleep. At one point, I’m pretty sure I dozed slightly leaning against the door jam. Pathetic. I had been shopping, cooking, cleaning all weekend that by the time the actual ceremony rolled around and our living room filled up with gobs of people, I was too exhausted to enjoy it and struggling to just make sure we had enough food and everyone was having a good time. Not to say that I didn’t have a good time, I did, but I would have liked to enjoy it a little more and not be falling asleep in my drink.
Every wedding planner should have a Secret Service headset
This WILL NOT be happening at our wedding. If a weekend Oscar party can knock me out and make me feel like I’ve been run over by a truck, then Gaelic Gala is sure to do me in. I want to enjoy our wedding, have fun, not be the one running around worrying about if there is enough food, if people are having a good time, did the florist show up yet, etc. That is why we will have a wedding planner. I, and you of course, will be there to consult on every single step, but if I had to make decisions and then execute every single one of them, we’d be getting married with me hooked up to an IV for dehydration while in a hospital bed. So not sexy.
I say this very easily now, but please note that you will have to help me with this. I do have a tendency to want to control everything and just do things myself. Please pry my fingers away from everything. Think about all the great things our wedding planner can help with.
He/She can make sure that our wedding party has ordered their attire so we won’t have to chase people down. He/She can get hopefully better deals with vendors for flowers, locations, photography, etc because of relationships she has established in her career thus far. He/She can make sure the reception is being set up while we are free to just get ready for the ceremony. He/She can make sure I remember to do things that I would otherwise forget, like who to thank at the reception, who still needs to be paid, who I need to blame for stepping on my dress and ripping it. That sort of thing. He/She can help me keep my sanity. I’m one kick ass multi-tasker and one hell of a party planner but when it comes to my wedding, I’d probably lose my mind.
So jump on board Team Wedding Planner. Jennifer Lopez made it look cool, and rarely does Jennifer Lopez make anything look cool, so why the hell shouldn’t we have one? I swear it will be worth the money because you do not want to start our marriage off with a completely fried wife who wants to sleep for a week. Actually, I’ll probably still want do that as I’ll be stressed that I have given up control when executing things for GG, but it’ll hopefully be coax me out of a my sleep coma.
Something to look forward to.
Xo,
Your future wife
