I just spent all day registering for cool kitchen stuff online instead of writing a paper like I was supposed to.... whoops. This is what I like to call "productive procrastination." It's when you do something that is useful to have done, but definitely does not have priority over that which you should be doing. Weddings give me so much opportunity for procrastinating from my studies. Anyone else have that problem?

I was in your ladies' situation last year. I applied for medical school, interviewed, got engaged in early Feb. 2003 and got married 2 days before medical school started (married Aug. 2 - started school Aug. 4). On top of working and planning the wedding, we were also planning on moving from CA to FL - had even gone out to FL, put a deposit on a place, contacted movers, etc. - then flew back to CA, and 2 days later (in July), heard from a CA med school that I got pulled off the waitlist. So had to fly down to check out new apartments at the new CA school, get the depsoit back from FL, deal with wedding plans, bachelorette party, bridal shower, etc.! It was crazy. All I can say is - have a GREAT maid of honor and a FABULOUS fiancee who will do lots of calling for you. Mine was great in that I would tell him what would have to be done and he would pitch in on whatever I told him needed to be done.

As for honeymoon, the immediate one was spent driving down I5 from SF to LA the Sunday after the wedding (school started Mon.) The real honeymoon was over X-mas break. We went to Australia - left the day my final was over (Dec. 17th) and was back Dec. 29th. School started Jan. 5th, so those of you thinking of Hawaii, have no fear. It is definitely doable. Plus jet-lag doesn't affect you as much going west so we didn't have any problems enjoying ourselves once we were there.

For those of you brides going crazy with wedding and med school, let me put it to you this way. If you can survive planning a wedding and dealing with the wedding day and family, medical school is a breeze (ok, well not a breeze, but definitely less hectic because your'e only worried about one thing as opposed to 5 million)!

Hi ladies - I will be more like a 2005 bride... maybe even later, but Drey told me to add myself here, so I figured I might as well! My sweetheart and I got engaged a little more than a week ago, and I'm so happy and excited. We are planning on a sort of long engagement, but I am getting excited about the planning anyway, and already thinking of dates and locations. I may go with something in the winter - a little unusual, but cheaper, and very beautiful and dramatic and romatic I think. Also could work out well with winter break.

How is planning going for all of you? Are things falling into place?

Hello...
we getting married on July 31st. I'm not even a pre-med yet. Hopefully I'll get accepted to BA in bilogy for the fall semster:-). Anyway...Actually we are already married. we had a civil wedding + small ceremony for Mike's family in Indianapolis last October. I come from Poland and my parents couldn't imagine this big wedding with all the aunts and cousins. So we have a big church wedding in Poland in July I really can't wait for it...
After our wedding in October we had an awsome weekend in a spa resort here in VA. we couldn't afford anything else: both, timewise and moneywise. we saved up a little bit and after the church wedding we're going for our honeymoon to UK - England, Scotlad and Irish. My husband is half Irish half Scottish and he's never been there before. And for me those Scottish and Irish wildernesses always seemed to be the most romantic places in the world :-).
Anyway - Good luck to all of you. And although I once went through marriage preparation I'm still really excited. I'm really lucky that I have a chance to experience it twice...(with the same man )

Anyone planning a wedding will love this site! No matter how much my mom drives me nuts, I can always go to this site to remind me that it could be worse. :yikes: Lots of hysterical stories from "Wedding Etiquette Hell"

Wedding E-Hell

Warning--I lost several hours to this website. It's great procrastination. :rolleyes:

We had originally planned to get married this October, but I now think Spring 2005 will work better because I plan to be interviewing for med school this fall and I can't decide what type of wedding I want (destination vs church and where )

I did (or should I say he did ) purchase my dress(it hasn't been altered yet), so at least I have that out of the way. I'll take this idea up again after the April MCAT but by then, we may have eloped!

If you ladies have already bought or ordered your dresses, post links to them here, I'd love to see what everyone is wearing!

Drey\'s Dress

I ordered this without the butt-flowers and the stupid headpiece, but I absolutely love it.

Bridesmaid dresses


These are my bridesmaid dresses


Anyone else?

Drey, the dress is absolutely beautiful and very original!!!!!

ooooh drey, i love both dresses! nice choices!! the red bridesmaid dresses will look so nice with the embroidery on your dress. how many bridesmaids are you having?

when wedding planning isn't going well, take a break and look at this website--and count your blessings!

www.etiquettehell.com/wedindex.htm