Scheduling Fail

To all brides and future brides out there, enjoy your lull in planning. AND DON'T whatever you do sign up to lead/run ANYTHING MORE just because you think you have it all under control. (I think it was in this lull that I thought I could lead a Burning Man camp as well as plan a wedding and hold down a full-time job.)

Yep I'm officially freaking out - if you couldn't tell. It's not the number of days left until the wedding that has me freaked out. No it's the number of remaining weekends until the wedding. There are 20. But it's not that number that really has me hyperventilating. It's the number of weekends that aren't already claimed by something non-wedding related. Burning Man takes 2 weekends - that leaves 18. Helping load up the camp/our stuff takes 1 weekend - we're down to 17. One weekend is reserved for the Bachelorette Weekend - 16. Don't forget holiday weekends and just enjoying life - 14. Syzygryd fundraising events (1 Saturday and 1 Sunday) take out another weekend (spread across two) which leaves us 13.

Wedding counters give you this false sense of complacency. Heck I have 152 days, I've got plenty of time. When viewed in weeks and available work days then um yes "Houston We have a problem."

The Final Countdown

It seems that every where you turn there's a counter reminding you how many days are left before you say "I Do." It's the first bit of information that greets you on Macy's registry page. Martha Stewart Weddings displays it on the Planning & Tools tab. I guess they want to ease you into your countdown. You know give you time to prepare.

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Most of the counters available are pretty much the same. Set of backgrounds and a few icons to choose from. Some allow you to generate a counter for your date without parting with your information, while others do not. The two we looked at that didn't need you to register for them to work were:

• DaisyPath (couldn't get it to work)
• WeddingChannel.com (chose these)

As of today, we have 154 days until our official ceremony. In case you're curious as to when you need to be on playa for our Burning Man or in San Francisco for the ceremony with family, check out the bottom of our blog. Two counters from WeddingChannel.com now appear.

Are you counting down? Is it exciting or stressful?