thoughts 8 days before the wedding

i am surprisingly calm. being the OC person that i am, everbody thought that i would be tearing my hair out by now. pero sobra lang akong kalmado. our early preps really paid off (last december kami ng-book ng church at reception venue, march wedding expo kami nag-start mag-book ng caterer, photo-video, event stylist, at cake maker). and kahit na dami naming DIY (invites, favors, gallery, misalettes, place cards, AVP, etc), parang okay lang lahat. or siguro kasi i have learned to let go. all the w@wies say that the bride must let go on the day of the wedding, i let go two weeks ago. for example, i learned the other day that the weather forecast for dec 18 is "overcast, thunderstorms, humid". that is probably the worst weather forecast ever! but i am so zen about it. i am just praying that traffic will not be as horrendous as i expect it to be (18 being the last saturday before christmas and of course, that means christmas shopping galore and christmas parties just about anywhere. add thunderstorms to that and you have the worst traffic imaginable).

maybe it helps that i only have 124 guests. maybe it helps that i am just so darn excited to get married that i don't really care about anything else by now. or maybe it is because my mind is on my thesis (due on january 25). or probably because i am more excited about our honeymoon (was able to book a flight to bangkok just the other day!!!). whatever the reason, bottomline is, as of now, i am relatively calm and stress-free.

i was telling my mom the other day that it is so fortunate that i only have a few guests that it's not dfficult to follow up RSVPs. i have also reshuffled the seating arrangement a million times that i am pro at it by now and i am not stressed at the thought of doing it (although bernard and i promised that we'll just do it one last time three days before the wedding. :))

for now, i am just so much looking forward to the being mrs. aviñante that i don't care if the guests don't arrive, if the misalettes don't get distributed, if the seating arrangement won't be followed, etc. i am just so happy to be getting married that as long as jojie, my family, and jojie's family are there, i'll be okay.