I just got back from my honeymoon yesterday. So by now I've forgotten most of the chaotic helpfulness. The day before or wedding we had brunch without the relatives and reminded ourselves to enjoy everything and let the little stuff slide. And from the wedding and reception I remember her, and I remember a happy blur of all our relatives and friends visiting and congratulating us. And be sure to enjoy how relaxed your honeymoon will be in comparison.
This is the second time I will be married. The first was more than 20 years ago, so it doesn't even really count anymore, right? (She and I are still good friends, and she loves my new wife.) My sweetie is a professional organizer by trade, so this is second nature to her. She has done 5 of our friends weddings. But our approaches to organizing couldn't be more diametrically opposed. My View: I sent you an invite. It has the date, address, and time on it. Sort yourself out. Her View: We need to make sure Susan can pick up Aunt Grace and Uncle Harry from the airport, but Susan has never met them, so we need to get good photos of Grace and Harry so Susan knows who to pick up. And I need to get all their flight info and print it out and email it to Susan so she has it in two different formats, in case one of them gets lost. And then she needs to know where to take them so I have a sheet with the address of the hotel and a photo of it and a map of the where to park, and I'll also email it to her as a PDF in case she loses the hard copy, but I'll put the hard copy in a binder with the photos of Grace and Harry, so she has everything in one place... and... Etc. So yeah. Next week, when we go out to the little town of Tieton, I am looking forward to having my sweetie back, and having most of her attention focused on me again. :-)