So I landed at BOS earlier this evening and am now sitting here at my FILs’ (Future-In-Laws’) place writing my first wedding planning blog entry! In fact, (as may become painfully obvious to some of you shortly) this is my first EVER blog. Let’s just say I never felt as though I had an excuse to begin blogging: an organizing theme perhaps, a take, tack, vision or particularly sassy and witty observations on the bizarre or mundane. And now I do. Thank you, Joe, for finally giving me an opportunity to babble my thoughts into Cyberspace. And proposing, being willing to share your life with me, making me the luckiest girl in the world, etc. etc., of course.

Why a wedding planning blog? To share my infinite experience and wisdom with future brides-to-be, to ease the pain and uncertainty, provide helpful, practical and clever pieces of advice…. or, rather, to journal the experience for myself. Indulge in the journey, keep track of my thoughts and allow a few wonderful friends who have over the last 1-30 years shown remarkable fortitude, patience and kindness in hearing me rant, rave, postulate, opine and prattle on about any number of topics to follow along as the plans for a (hopefully super fun) day in the Berkshires evolve. And hopefully have them, as always, respond with intelligent observations, advice, analysis and reassurance. And to gain practice writing so as to slowly develop the good habit of not writing run-on sentences. (Fat chance). And wean myself of reliance on asides and parentheses. (Even fatter chance). And stop beginning sentences with “and.” (Three guesses.)

So here we go! I’m thinking it’ll be like a visit back to my few experiences running the 400m or 800m dash: fast, strong, enthusiastic start! (many entries posted as I finally start writing after having thought about this for a few weeks)… tapering down slowly a bit as the muscles begin to burn (are we seriously only on this part of the track???)… to a desperate push at the end (so much to do! so little time!) and, finally, a finish. Yes, I always do finish. And look back and think: I coulda run a bit faster than that! So I’m sure the wedding planning will go - and the wedding will happen, and I will look back and think about what I might have done differently. But perhaps this will be more like a long race rather than a sprint. The analogy was just meant to prepare for the onslaught of posts in the next several weeks.

Tomorrow we drive out to Williamstown and officially kick off the Process and begin our search for a venue. Wish us luck! :)

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