I'm sorry!

I'm so sorry I've been gone so long. Not that anyone is listening! But I'm really actually sorry to myself. I promised that I would use this as a way to get out all my frustration, since my apparent social anxiety keeps me from sharing them with anyone but myself.

The last few weeks have brought a few changes. We decided to postpone the wedding for one. We'll do it in 2010 instead of 2009. Costs were rapidly spiraling out of control, and we couldn't decide on whether to invite the whole family (giving us a whopping total of 160 guests on a budget of $10k) or have separate family parties and only invite our closest friends to the actual wedding (bringing our total down to a much more doable 80 people). We're still playing with that idea.

By the way, if we go with 160, would it be totally insane to try to cater most if ourselves? I mean, we have a great Persian dish that only gets better after it's been able to sit for a few days. That would be a great app. And costco has so many wonderful little quiches and such. Why can't we just team up with the neighbors and use their ovens to take care of the hor d'ourves? We can purchase chicken from a local restaurant, but make a saffron quinoa (which we recently tried that was fabulous!) and a salad. I know it's a lot of people, but all of things can largely be prepared ahead of time, and put together by some dedicated friends and family on the day of. Cupcakes are already being taken care of by a bridesmaid and another friend.

Seriously, am I insane?