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Just wanted to check in with my fellow July 17th girls and see how things are going for you guys!

I am happy to be at the point where all the major elements are in place - even if I don't do anything else the wedding will happen - everything that is left will fall into place!

Things I am happy to have behind me now:

• Finding wedding day shoes (I am way too picky)
• Finding bridesmaids shoes and jewellery
• Finding ivory shirts for the boys (that was way harder than it should have been)
• Started my wishing trees/ceremony arbour (I was dreading that DIY)

I have a few things left on the list:

• Pick a MC and get things organized with them
• Finalize who wants to do speeches
• Write me and FH's thank-you speech
• Confirm our reader (she was nervous about it)
• Book/get my last hair colouring
• Hair and makeup trial
• Wrap up the BM/GM gifts
• Finish, print, and assemble programs
• Pick up some more votives and candles for lanterns (somehow I bought too few?)
• Break in my wedding shoes, and buy shoe clips/pins to bling them up a bit
• Second and final dress fittings
• Fine tune my wish tree
• Pick between our 3 possible first dance songs
• Finish the must play/do not play lists

It is pretty crazy! I spent last night cutting and singeing fabric to make more flowers for my wish trees ... Our friend/DJ reminded me he wants our song list on facebook today - so we have to get on that. We also have to send out 2 last minute add-on invites (thanks FMIL) tonight.

I might be crazy, but I booked the hair/makeup trial for the 14th (3 days before the wedding) - hopefully it works out well!

I am actually surprised at how relaxed I am about things - sure we don't have an MC at this point, but we will work something out! I am actually working the 12th and 13th - so hopefully I stay relaxed until then!

Uhg - where I live has had a huge downpouring of rain, and there is a lot of flooding going on - I just found out that the campground where a bunch of our guests were going to stay is under water - they are not sure when it will be back in operation (hopefully all those guests can make other arrangements) - other crappy news: we are having our wedding at a golf course - 25% of it is under water! The clubhouse is up on a hill so it should be fine, but we were going to do our family pics on the course and now we aren't sure if we can do that! Not to mention one of my favourite photo locations for our formal pics pre-ceremony is also in danger of being flooded!

It is actually pretty bad in our city overall ... my house is really high up in the city, so we are fine, no moisture seeping in, but several co-workers have flooded basements, and like I said, the golf course is partially flooded (I am going to drive up there to take a look around today) as well as a lot of areas around the city ... I have been working nights all weekend so I haven't gone around to check out things (I have been getting my info from co-workers and websites). There is still 3 1/2 weeks, so hopefully they get things cleaned up!

On the bright side everything will be really green and lush for our pictures!