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Here's an update by category.

Dress.
I took a day off school and went up to Seattle on Friday to get my dress fitted. I had the pleasure of a somewhat annoying rideshare, thanks to Craigslist and weirdo 60-year-olds going to the Folklife festival. I'm a little disappointed with my dress. Not the dress - it's gorgeous. But I don't like how the shine of it accentuates my stomach fat. I don't know why I went with the satin. Not to mention, I ordered the hemp satin, but the dress doesn't look like the fabric I saw a sample of. It's too late now, but I just really don't know what to do at this point. I don't want to feel totally self-conscious on my wedding day. I don't know why I thought a white dress made out of shiny white would be a good idea for me. No, I'm not sharing pictures. My "slimming down" efforts have not been going wonderfully. I did really well for a couple days, but came home from Seattle yesterday evening with a terribly sore back and was unable to work out then, or today. Maybe later I can get myself to do it...


Crafts.
Have I mentioned we're having Otter Pops at our wedding? Okay, they're Fla-vor-Ice that were on clearance at Big Lots. We're ridiculous and so we bought a bunch of boxes so we could pull just the red and blue ones. We'll donate the rest to the camp I worked at last year, or a school or something. Today I separated them (only ripped open one in the process), and decorated the little galvanized tub I bought to put them in, with ribbon. The pops came out to be $12, the tub was $2 and we can plant something in it afterward, the red ribbon was 10 cents for the spool at the thrift store, and the blue ribbon was $1 at Michael's, and the kids scissors were $1. Total = $16 (plus a negligible amount for ice and hot glue) to make T happy, since it was his idea in the first place (and a very cute one at that)! If we weren't being color fascists it would've been about $10, since we would've just used all the pops instead of picking the ones that matched.

I have a bunch of other crafts lined up, but every time I try to buy the supplies for them the store is out, or something. Also, a lot of them are one-per-guest type things and I don't want to make 100 of things if it turns out I only need 60 or 80.


Invitations.
The good: We've been getting some nice pieces of advice on our RSVPs, since we asked for "how to have a long and happy life" or something. Well, except for T's aunt, who didn't manage to write her name but did manage to write "DON'T DIE" as her advice. We're going to be including all the loving sentiments on a -mystery project- (also T's realm) at the wedding.

The bad: Today is May 30th. Our RSVPs are due June 1st. We have received a grand total of .......16. Out of 70. That's 22%. 2 days before they're due. We sent save-the-dates, so people knew when the wedding was months ago. We put stamps on the RSVPs, so people could just drop them in the mail. Or clothespin them to their mailboxes. I have no idea why we bothered. We were worried that online RSVPing would be hard for the older people to figure out, but since they haven't even sent in their cards, it seems like we went to a lot of expensive, paper-wasting trouble for nothing. I'm also not looking forward to calling about 40 people this week. And sadly, some people have continued to not write their damn names.

And in other invitational ridiculousness, our friend Jeff called to tell us that the day of the week listed on our invitation is wrong. AAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!! I sent in the wording with the correct day, and it ended up getting changed. Even though we both proofread for misspelled words, we both missed it. Lesson learned: proofread for content, people. Or maybe if you have frazzled wedding brain, have 5 other people proofread for content. Or just don't bother with invitations, since it doesn't seem to matter anyway.

Can you tell I'm having a "WHY THE EFF DIDN'T WE ELOPE" kind of day?