First, a HUGE, HUGE (incred­i­bly belated) thanks to every sin­gle one of you who com­mented, tweeted about or even just glanced at our invi­ta­tions. I’m still amazed that any­one is remotely inter­ested in the things I have to say or the work we’re doing. And I truly appre­ci­ate every kind word.

Designing them was an emo­tional process — we spent a lot of time and energy get­ting them just right. To many peo­ple an invi­ta­tion is just a dis­pos­able piece of paper, but for us, it was much more than that. It was really impor­tant that they reflect who we are. So although we didn’t inten­tion­ally design them to get out­side approval, it feels really good to know that we accom­plished what we set out to do, and that there are other peo­ple out there shar­ing in our excitement.

For those who asked, I haven’t yet sent an invi­ta­tion to the Obamas. Obviously they would never come to a wed­ding of a stranger, but I had heard that every invi­ta­tion gets an offi­cial response (plus I needed a fake address to use for online dis­play pur­poses), which is why I had Patricia include their address. So I’m think­ing I may do it just to get the cool keepsake.

And sec­ond, please know that I really hate when I have to dis­ap­pear from here for days at a time. It was very dif­fi­cult to not start off this post with an apol­ogy (some­thing I’m try­ing to do less of in these types of sit­u­a­tions), because I gen­uinely do feel badly about not being around.

Something I strug­gle with every day is that there are way too many things I want to do and not enough time to do them. So espe­cially in times like these, where the last minute wed­ding prepa­ra­tions need to take pri­or­ity over every­thing else, I have to pick and choose what I can spend my free min­utes — if you can call them that — on. And unfor­tu­nately, as much as I hate it, this blog tends to drop off the list. (I lit­er­ally have hun­dreds of posts drafted that are wait­ing to be finished.)

And as excited as the two of us are for the wed­ding, lately we’ve found our­selves fan­ta­siz­ing about what we’ll do with our time once the wed­ding is over. In real­ity it will just be filled with new projects and resum­ing projects that were hold for the wed­ding — hello Seamless Paperie site! — but it seems to be a place we’re con­stantly going to lately. Like, “I can’t wait til the wed­ding is over to I can finally orga­nize the office” or “I can’t wait til the wed­ding is over so I can do a craft project just for fun.” And as a list per­son, I’m hav­ing a tough time not mak­ing an after-wedding to do list, but so far I’ve resisted the urge.

So what I’m going to do for the next thirty days is try extra hard to be in the moment and enjoy every last detail. Because I really don’t want the wed­ding to fly by and feel like I missed out, which is where I feel like I’m headed if I keep myself buried under to do lists. But rest assured, I am not aban­don­ing you com­pletely. And pretty soon I’ll be able to share with you all the projects that have been keep­ing us busy. Stay tuned…