Closer

There are 9 days left to the wedding!!!

Yahoo's long-distance weather forecast predicts scattered showers on the day. All I can do is hope they are appropriately scattered around my exits/entrances to/from cars/buildings. Otherwise I don't really mind.

I don't want to put the mockers on myself by saying this, but I think I have been very calm in the lead up to this wedding. Besides the hair-dresser fiasco at the weekend, everything has gone smoothly (fingers crossed to continue this way). The fiasco was that the hairdresser, which I had booked for hair trial and wedding day ages ago, had no recollection of my appointment when I rang to confirm last Saturday. 2 weeks before the big day! Fools! To be fair to them, they did have the appointments written down, but had ommitted to put my name next to them, the appointments being booked for "a lady" (I am not joking); and then refused to accept that these could be appointments for me so wanted to book new appointments on the same days. What made it worse was that although they realised that this was for my wedding, they were not one bit sympathetic that they were impacting on the wonderfullness of my day with this screw-up.

I have since found a replacement hairdresser who seems much nicer and I feel better about the whole thing. There will be pictorial evidence if she turns out to be a good haridresser. If she's terrible ALL photos will be destroyed.

Surprise stress came in the form of a phone call from my mother-in-law to be. Now I get on great with this woman, she is really lovely and has been a great help so far. But last night she asked if I was having the dress steamed/ironed before the wedding. I am not planning on it. But then I wondered; is she asking because she thinks the dress is too crinkled to be worn and needs to be steamed, or was she asking out of a geniune curiosity. My own panic means I keep having the internal debate as to whether I should have the dress steamed and if so, where, when? I imagine the internal debate will rage til the day of the wedding and then I won't care anymore.

The only other bit of stress I am expecting will come from packing the car for the drive home. (On Sunday morning we drive to Wales to get the ferry.) I am extremely anal about packing and have already started a list and planned the order it will go into the car and where it will be placed. Jamie does not take the same pride in packing that I do and this often leads to disagreements! We will share the driving to Wales but I want to drive on the other side of the ferry journey, as next week sees my first experience of driving in Ireland.

It's all very exciting really.