mercurialsunshine

I failed on my vow not to get stressed with this wedding. Hard.
Hard enough that my heart condition keeps acting up (let me take a moment to remind you that it will not actually hurt me, just put me in pain and make me even more stressed out, so none of you need to worry)
Hard enough that I honestly, looking back, think it was what made Dragon*Con not so much fun. In the back of my head was a to-do list a mile long abd I was spending 2 1/2 days of solid free time _not_ ticking things off it.
Because of all that I began to really bust my ass these last couple days. There's just a few things still worrying me:

People still haven't RSVP'd. It's a very small group, but after the countless attempts to get an answer out of some people, it leaves me frustrated. At this point I am going forward with the assumption that if they don't have an answer by now, they also don't have reservations or travel plans and thus they are not coming. If they do, we will have to figure out how to deal with the head count change on the fly and needless to say it will be the late ones that get the short end of any stick
Charles' pants have not yet arrived. We sent back to awful striped-y ones to get a plain pair of tux pants. That was 2 weeks ago. The messed up wedding rings we sent back on the same day arrived the middle of last week, so why the delay on the pants? The wedding may be mostly casual, but the boy has a fancy gray tux jacket and nothing to wear with it...
By the same token, our book we're using to write our vows and plan the ceremony is MIA. Our friend who is going to be the officiant sent it to us quite a bit ago to look over and then send back so we can coordinate. Now I'm worried the post office lost it leaving us with no plan and our officiant with no book at all.
The hotel refuses to guarantee an early check-in. Most places just charge you extra cause it means they have to hustle to clean the room. This one says "show up and we'll see if your room is ready" If not, too bad. I'm going to have food in the car. Luckily we're thinking we can take it to the house Charles' family is renting if all else fails.
And finally: holy crap, I am freaking out about doing my cake. Yes, yes, I'm a pastry chef with some experience. I've never done a wedding cake before, though, and that's a whole new can of worms... I'm scared I'm going to ruin it, or that I'll transport it wrong and won't be able to fix it 4 1/2 hours away from home and all my supplies. And wow, note to self, let's not put references to worms and my wedding cake in the same sentence again... ick.

I have to go back to the working on the list now. Boo.