HURRICANE O' PLANNING!!!!

"Enjoy this weekend, because come Monday the flood gates of wedding planning hell will gloriously open up and welcome you in with the brute force of a category 5 hurricane!" These were the words of our neighbors who we shared the engagement news the morning after the proposal...At the time we didn't think much of it. As the words were coming out of her mouth, I thought to myself, "Eh it won't be so bad, we are easy going people with simple taste who just want to plan a nice party for our closest friends and family." Flash forward three weeks to today... The winds have come from every which direction in a full force planning attack hurling things at us in a language that I don't think they have a translation book for. And if you think those bridal magazines are a help...THINK AGAIN, if fact I am convinced they are designed to confuse you so that you go out and buy more of them hoping to get some glimpse of clarification! Words like venue, uplighting and save-the-dates, as well as questions like, "Are you looking for a A-line, ballgown, or Sweetheart shape?" are being hurled at me with projectile force.....One word I am beginning to understand though is ELOPE!!! Is this what the 350 pounds of bridal magazines that are rapidly claiming their own corner of our apartment mean when they write uninterpretable articles using aforementioned words and questions with the titles like "Six Easy Steps to Wedding Planning Bliss."....