Wedding Planners are for Quitters...

Yep, I said it. Wedding planners are for quitters. And I am officially a quitter.

Thanks to my wonderful new mom (known hereafter as NM) I had my first meeting Saturday with Lynn, a Groom's family friend and phenomenal wedding planner. She did a wonderful job of not laughing through my sometimes ridiculous ideas and I was impressed that she forced me to account for all of the crazy things I've bought in the name of bargain shopping. Now this may sound odd but I love love non-yes people. Sometimes I end up doing what I wanted to anyway, but I at least love to hear feedback so that I know who's going to say 'I told you so' if things blow up in my face. Nothing makes me happier than someone who will tell me their honest opinion. It's probably because that's the way I am and at least I know they won't mind hearing what I have to say. I hate when someone just agrees with everything you say and, in the world of weddings, there's a lot of that going around. Sometimes it seems as if everyone (except the General...) is afraid to tell me if I have a crappy idea for fear that I'll explode. True, I have been walking the edge a bit with the wedding planning, house hunting, and ever- growing waistline but I have a ways to go before I completely jump off the deep end. Enter: Lynn the wedding planner.

When I started wedding planning, I completely bypassed the idea of a professional. I thought 'how hard can it be?' because I just wanted something simple. Little did I know that, in the world of weddings, simple is never as easy as it looks and where 200+ people are concerned it's just a pure impossibility unless Martha Stewart is your close, personal friend. I thought the magical wedding fairy just *poof!* coordinated your bridesmaids and groomsmen, arranged your tables, and borrowed 10 million flowers from the Rose Parade for the decor. Then she (or he, I'm flexible) would send out your invites on time, collect RSVPs & tend to all of the details on the big day. Your job? Enjoy the festivities! Voila, you're married & life is stress free!! Haha, well a girl can dream can't she?

The cold truth is that wedding planning is like a Rubix cube. Impossible to some, but easy to others that have the right eye for that sort of thing.