It's currently 1:27 AM and I just spent the last 2 hours trying to locate all of our flight information for our honeymoon.We booked some of our flights with reward points and we are flying to Puerto Rico on Monday to avoid having to take 5 different flights to get from Lex to Antigua. Yes friends, I kid you not. It was going to take 5 flights and 13+ hours of travel time if we did it all on Tuesday. Holy Insanity. It's actually worked out really well with us getting to spend a whole 26 hours in PR before we head to Antigua. Neither of us have been to PR before, so we are pretty pumped to explore the island in our extended layover. With all of that being said, we had some flights booked through American, and the rest were booked through Orbitz, which I cannot for the life of me remember my log in and password; hence the 2 hour search for flight info and calling about 4 different companies to get things figured out...... This has been my life this past week......and I think I'm borderline losing my sanity, just keep reading and you'll understand why......
Causes of this bride to be going insane- all accuring from Tues-Sat:
1.Last week of school. If you're a teacher you understand how crazy this is/was....
2. My hair trial had to be canceled last minute because my hair girl was sick. Not the end of the world, but still, frustrating that my trial will now be 2 days before the wedding....
3.. Found out one of our ushers is going to be out of town coaching his volleyball team at Nationals. Yay for them for making it to Nationals, but boo for us on losing an usher.....
4.Wednesday afternoon: I log into my bank account and it's overdrawn. I freak and then I notice a several hundred dollar purchase from a company that I used to order a Mrs. Kinney bikini and tank from several weeks ago. Well, apparently another Cooper re-ordered some stuff under her account but it somehow got charged to my debit card. Yay that it wasn't an ID theft, but boo on having to deal with the whole situation during my planning block. Once I called them, they issued the refund, but it didn't show up until Friday afternoon. This resulted in my account being frozen and thus denying me at the post office while trying to buy stamps on Wednesday evening (hi, embarrassing).....So, rather frustrated at the whole situation and just flat out exhausted from school being crazy, I head to M's and he suggests we head to dinner. He jumps in my car, and we head out. 3 minutes later, a man takes a turn too close and plows into my car- THE car we were supposed to use to leave our wedding ceremony in.....Oh yes friends, my sweet little convertible was smashed to pieces.
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Thankfully, everyone was okay and I KNOW it could have been worse. I was in a near fatal car accident in 2004, so trust me, I know it could have been much worse. But seriously, why my sweet car and why 10 days before the wedding?! I tried to keep it together..... I just kept repeating in my head, "You're okay, M's okay, the other driver is okay, there's starving children in Africa, there's people suffering from cancer, and you're okay, everyone is okay, it's a car, it can be fixed, so don't freak." Over and over and over this repeated in my head as we waited for the police to show up. I kept my composure, smiled, and told the man who hit me that it was all okay (when he found out we were getting ready to get married he felt AWFUL and kept saying how sorry he was, etc etc). All the while I was trying to convince myself that it really was going to be okay.... I was pretty proud of myself for not having a sheer bridezilla moment on the side of the street because friends, it was brewing.
5.Thursday afternoon: After dealing with the insurance companies allllllllll day long, and in the midst of trying to keep my students under control (think ADHD kids who are one day away from summer vacation) we finally head to Enterprise to pick up my rental. The insurance company told me they would give me a "premium" rental for my wedding day so that it would be comparable to my wrecked car. I dealt with one of the rudest and most arrogant employees at Enterprise and he told me that "All I can get you for your wedding is an Accord." And this, my friends, is when I snapped. I start crying in the middle of Enterprise trying to get him to give me something better and he just kept saying "Sorry (in his super arrogant tone), that's what you've got." Poor M, he didn't know what to do as I was literally snapping right in front of him and the rest of the people in the Enterprise office. Hi, I'm crazy.... I just couldn't help it- it was like a crazy woman was over-taking me, but I was just at wits end by this point, and literally losing any sanity I had left. We left Enterprise in the regular rental they gave me to use for all the other days and I just cried the whole way home. I then (in my crazy bridezilla manner) call the insurance adjuster and very firmly told him that "They better figure something out because an Accord and an Eclipise convertible are NOT in the same category and I am NOT leaving my wedding in an Accord." God love his heart for dealing with me.....
6. Friday morning, I woke up feeling a tad less Bridezilla-ish and decided to call a different Enterprise branch to see if I could get someone to
7. Friday evening, I'm getting ready to head to my waxing appointment and get called 1 hour before telling me it is cancelled b/c that girl is sick too. Goodness gracious. Can't a girl catch a break here?!?!
8. And then there's Saturday where mom and I spent the entire day running bridal errands and cleaning and organizing M's house (he's in Pittsburgh for his bachelor party) that has yet to be put up for sale. We still cant find the candles we went to 4 stores looking for and knowing his house is still not on the market, a week before the wedding, makes me want freak......
And then we end up where this post started, trying to locate those stinkin' flight times.....
I just keep telling myself "It will be okay. It's all going to be okay." Surely nothing else will go wrong, right?!
XOXO
The losing all here sanity bride to be :)
Just remember you will be Puerto Rico/Antigua in less than 10 days and nothing will matter anymore. You'll be a married couple and you'll be laughing at the craziness of what is your life right now. Good luck. I'm excited for your day!!
ReplyDeleteI have to say I found your blog through weddingbee and it's great! You are a talented writer and I had a good laugh. I'm glad you got a better car for your wedding. I keep panicking every time I almost get in a near collision (and where I live with BAD drivers, it is more often than I'd care to admit) and thinking about what I'd do. Glad to see you've lived one of my wedding nightmares and made it through with a JAG on your wedding!!! SO COOL!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness...when it rains it pours, I guess. I really hope things settle down for you quick.
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