So now I have to start on the DIY burlap table runners with the tree of life embroidered on each one, and learn glassblowing so I can make personalized favors for all the guests, and start the wedding diet*, and learn calligraphy so I can write all the invitations, and oh, maybe learn to make paper so I can MAKE the invitations, and go to the eye doctor so I can get new contacts so I won't have to wear my glasses.**

*(There will be NO wedding diet. Jesus, how demoralizing. The first person to ask that is getting a DIY throat-punch.) (Not you guys; HELL no, I know you wouldn't do that. But I'm waiting for my tacky-ass co-worker to ask me at the next birthday lunch WHY I'm eating Graeter's since I need to lose weight for the wedding. You should be able to hear my scorn across 3 time zones.)

**(I like how I look in my glasses, but I don't like the way camera flashes reflect off of them. I'd rather not have that flashbulb effect in a gazillion pictures.)

maybe learn to make paper so I can MAKE the invitations

Now THIS is an idea.

Yay to a place on a date!

maybe learn to make paper so I can MAKE the invitations

And of course, you'd better get those trees planted sooner rather than later so you have the stuff to make the paper with.

Hooray! It's a date!

I have an idea... maybe go for a whole nautical theme with the wedding.

You've got your ropes, you've got your knots, you've got your fabulous [link] fabulous [link] admiral's uniforms...

Oh, yeah, all the ropes and gold fringe and feathers... it's a nautical theme. In Ohio. Midwest Nautical. In two years EVERYONE will be doing it.

maybe learn to make paper so I can MAKE the invitations

Now THIS is an idea.

And I'll learn to smelt so that I can make Tim's ring! (Maybe not smelt -- whatever one has to do in order to make a ring. I suppose I might have to travel to Mt. Doom to forge it there.)

Rope ladders... flogging...

Rum sodomy and the lash. It's Anglophilic.

Oh god, I don't want sodomy at my wedding.

Tim might be okay with it, though.

, maybe learn to make paper so I can MAKE the invitations

One of my cousin's actually did this. Kind of. She knew how to make paper, so she made paper, and then they had the actual invitation printed, and then attached to the paper she made.

My big DIY dream (which I know I'll never do) is knit or crochet flowers and make pins for the guests to wear and as favors. The rate I finish projects I'd have to start now and hope Will doesn't propose for a couple of years.

I got a kind of odd wedding invitation today. For one thing, the invitation reads that you are invited to join them as they "extend their friendship to include vows of marriage". Which, okay. Kind of odd framing, but whatever.

Worse, the reply card is fucking madlibs. As in "when C & R [VERB] down the aisle, [name] will/will not be there to [VERB] them. We are so [ADJECTIVE] for C & R... and on and on.

Do you think you'll be indoors or outdoors?

If you're outdoors fans are nice favors. I think most favors are pretty goofy, but fans are practical and pleasant.