Little Crises

One of the things that I’ve learned about planning a wedding is that there are actually two procedures.  First you call and make visits to set up everything.  Second, you are hit with a series of small crises that throw everything that you’ve set up into confusion. 

So, wedding planning quickly becomes an activity not of planning, but of mitigating these crises.  For example, we just got our wedding reception placed booked about a week ago.  We decided to call around and see how much hotel rooms would be for our guests and they were a bit more expensive than we figured. 

We realized that the weekend that we are having the wedding is the weekend of Bonnaroo and the CMA music festival.  So there will be a couple extra hundred thousand people in the Nashville area that weekend.  Because of this, there will be a lot of traffic for anyone coming from the south, more expensive plane flights, and fewer hotel rooms to offer people. 

Wedding planning works like that; you spend all of this time trying to plan things, and then a wrench gets thrown into the works.  The only thing that you can do is try to get the wrench out of there without losing any fingers.  And eventually you get used to having wrenches all over the place in spots where they should not be.  And they you keep going with an overused metaphor.