As we sit here meditating and drinking green tea ...
No, that is not the truth. The truth is we are watching Law and Order and putting our feet up. My coffee is brewing and Twinkie is having a tea. Three weeks to go. THREE WEEKS!!!!
How on earth did that happen?
We had high hopes of acing this wedding thing, being super-organized, having things roll together like a well -oiled machine. So ... today, we woke up, went to a dress fitting, ran into our neighbour, went to Square One, picked up Creampuff's dress, shopped for TwinkieNiece dresses, got back in the car, drove to The Bay and finished adding things to the registry.
Registries are weird. Well - if you are the one making it, it is weird. I like nothing better than the intimate act of settng a budget and then finding the right combination of egg slicer, asparagus cooker, fondue cooker and shrimp deveiner that adds up to the right number. Brilliant. But being on the other side is weird.
At first, we didn't think we'd have a registry. But then - people kept asking, and then started frantically asking for us to hurry up and get it together and get registered. So we got registered. And then just put the whole registry thing aside. When we finally gathered up the courage, we set a date and went to The Bay, got a scanner and started to scan things for the registry. Weird.
That is what you do - you go in, get the scanner and scan the things you want. Should be fun. Well, the first time it wasn't. It was too weird. So we went back home, put it aside and waited for another right time.
Three weeks later, also known as today, we went to the best Bay ever, the downtown Bay. We marched up to the 5th Floor, and asked for the scanner. And then we mustered up our bravery and spent the next two hours walking around the downtown Bay picking things out, talking about them, sitting in weird chairs and making up table settings of display china. And then something even weirder happened, we started to have fun.
At the end of the day, when we returned the scanner, the Gift Registry woman said we should have had a consultation, and plunked us down to give it to us. We learned so many appropriate bridal things from a woman using the dirtiest long nails I have ever seen to point at pretty pretty things on glossy paper. They even gave me a frosty bottle of cold water!
With sore feet and a full registry we returned home. The registry is done - pretty weird process - but the things we chose are things we would love to have, and we hope that people who want to use the registry are the people who will choose to use it.
Yours in CHORES and love and registry mania,
Cupcake
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