…with our wedding. Seriously folks, sometimes even I get annoyed with eating, breathing, sleeping and dreaming about our wedding. Don’t get me wrong; I’m also wholeheartedly in LOVE – with both our wedding, and with my wonderful Mister – but being engaged is exhausting!

Things I did to entertain myself before getting engaged:

  • Go out salsa dancing with the Mister
  • Movies with my friends (not just the Mister)
  • Dressmaking / crafting / card-making / baking / house-decorating (any many other ‘crafty’ things besides)
  • Eating out for the sake of enjoying the food – not just because there is no food in the house
  • Sneakily read a couple of wedding blogs “just in case the inspiration would be useful someday”

Things I do under the context of ‘entertaining myself’ now we’re engaged:

  • Only salsa dance when the Mister and I practice at home, while I wear my wedding shoes and a mock-ballgown skirt (yes, we really do this!)
  • Obsessively read more wedding blogs than there is time to follow in the course of a normal day
  • Stalk our wedding photographers blog
  • Wish I had the energy to suggest going to the movies with my girlfriends (and NOT to watch a “Wedding” film!)
  • 1001 wedding-related craft projects
  • Eat too much take-out on weekends because I’ve procrastinated from grocery shopping all week by reading wedding blogs…
  • Buy craft materials on a whim having been inspired by a project I saw on a wedding blog and “had to have it”
  • Realise I am obsessed and need help… my brain is ‘utterly engaged with the thought of being engaged’

I think I need a time-out…

Perhaps the worst thing is that I actually spend such a silly amount of time looking at weddings on the Internet, and searching for ideas to infuse into our own day, that I’m left with not enough time in the day to tackle my own list of projects – and a perpetual feeling that I am starting to ‘compare’ our wedding to everything else out there in blog-land… when that’s not what it’s about; or what it has ever BEEN about. Sigh.

Does anyone else out there feel a bit like this at times?

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