You guys, I’m still at work for another 6 hours, and the stress/drama is already REAL.
Our coordinator just sent us our final seating arrangement and it looks nothing like the one we had made our seating chart based on… it has our family friends on the other side of the room from us, and it has my FH’s college friends separated from all our other friends our age and wedged in the back corner surrounded by my mom's friends. So either she is going to have to change it back, or I am going to have to change the entire seating chart, and I am not sure how to do that because I’ve already written table numbers on all the escort cards.
Then my mom texted me saying my 88 year old great uncle (grandma’s brother) arrived last night at 1am (flight was delayed 4 hours because of thunderstorms and tornado advisory in NJ 🙄) and apparently the only clothes he brought are: the clothes he traveled in, his suit for the wedding, and 1 pair of pajamas (he’s here for a week, btw). So now my mom has to take him shopping. And apparently he’s already driving my grandma crazy because he “talks too much.”
Im almost laughing and crying at the same time because I’m fully aware that this is all SO RIDICULOUS and I’m like “well, this is a wedding alright! This is what I’ve prepared for!” But still feeling soo overwhelmed already and I’m sure many more things are going to go wrong over the next few days...
Does anyone have a good mantra that I can say to myself while taking deep breaths? I’ve been going with “stay calm, it’s all ok” but was trying to come up with something more focused and specific that I can repeat to myself all weekend when more things happen!