If you’re still here at this point, you get a cookie.

It’s just over a year since I last updated this blog, when I was about 6 months away from our wedding. Now we’ve been married for 6 months and I am back. Or attempting to be back.

So what happened?

Planning our wedding got unexpectedly stressful. Multiple well meaning people tried to offer help that we didn’t need. Help that, perhaps unconsciously, was trying to change the wedding we wanted into the wedding they thought it should be. Between backhanded comments or the silent treatment over decisions as silly as how many entree options we offered, and people buying wedding supplies for us after we had already purchased the same supplies on our own, got downright insulting at points. As if we didn’t know what we were doing.

So, I had to step away. If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything at all, right? It got worse, a lot worse, up until the week before the wedding. It seemed as if no one just trusted us to throw a simple party. And that weddings are only done one way and we will remind you of this every single day in the hopes we will wear you down and get what we want. It was exhausting.

But then, things got better. Family arrived, and it was too late for any more decisions. Supplies were dropped off, and out of my hands. And the day was wonderful.

My hope now is to go back and recapture some of that for those of you who have stuck around. I’ll try to wrap up the posts I had half written before I left, and I’ll try to cover all the fun things before the wedding, like picking out invitations and all of that. I want to review all the vendors I used too after I share some of our wedding with you. But I think my posting will be slower. Maybe once a week. To rest my arms (I work on the computer all day and they do get sore) and to give us time to savor the experience.

Then after that… well, this year I get to be a bridesmaid not once, but TWICE! That’s twice the joy and twice the wedding planning for 2011. Let’s rock the shit out of this.