Next Wedding Coming Up

We have a wedding for Yo [youngest offspring] coming up in a couple of weeks.   Today I visited my oldest daughter who showed me the things she has at her house, things made for the wedding, at Yo's request, which have to be transported.   One is quite large.   This makes me wonder about all the things which reside at our various houses which will need to be transported to the wedding site.

For example, Cilla is the cake maker,  and it is a large cake, big enough for almost 200 people  She said she would have to borrow Bren's car to transport the cake,  but when I saw today what Bren had to transport, that made me wonder about cars and such.

We have many boxes of things here at our home, and they have not yet even all arrived.  The favors have been ordered to be shipped here.  I'm trying to visualize packing all this in one car, along with two of us, arriving in our tux and fancy gown, to unload many supplies, and then have our formal photographs taken before the wedding.  Maybe we should not put on our fancy clothes until the last minute.

Bren and I were talking about all this today, and how sad it is really, to put thousands of hours into planning,  many more thousands of thoughts and details of effort, (not even to mention dollars) for something that will probably last no more than five hours, tops.  Yo has put so much thought and effort into everything, which will all be thematically related.  It will certainly be unique.

What I hope most of all is that it will be fun for the bride and groom, and memorable.  I hope there will be no stress over the unimportant things.   I hope that when all is said and done,  they will feel like all the effort was worth while, and have many wonderful memories.

After the ceremony, when my part is done, I think I am going to have several glasses of wine!