Wedding Planning-Filled Nights

Recently, it seems like about once a week I can't sleep because (poof) I start thinking about the wedding and (pow) my body stops producing melatonin. I started out combating this by just lying in bed, wide awake, telling myself to just fall asleep. Of course, that never works. I lie there for a good 45 minutes, get some water, use the restroom, and lie back down no closer to sleep.

So rather than cursing my sleepless nights, I'm starting to welcome them as wedding planning-filled opportunities. A has been a little concerned about these productive nights in which a potential 8 hours of sleep turns into 3, but I keep assuring him that I'd rather use the energy to do something good than expend it trying to make myself fall asleep. It has been slightly difficult to balance everything--working two jobs, two "internships," spending time with hubby-to-be, training for an upcoming race and getting my weekly dose of wedding planning in, so if 1 a.m. is when I'm feeling most productive, I want to roll with it. It's also a great time to catch up with my MOH--a fellow night owl--and bounce ideas off of her.

In a perfect world, I would have accomplished everything on my "to-do" list, but I quickly become lost in all of the golden nuggets of wedding that exist on the web. Hmm. Maybe I need to prepare a "can't sleep" to-do list to keep myself on task... Organization is something else I'm working on, but we can explore that topic later.

So the result of these late nights? The invitation/ stationary design is nearly complete and ready to test at the printer. My MOH, who shot the engagement photos for A & I, is a highly talented photographer in the San Francisco Bay area. She introduced me to another west coast photographer, and I absolutely fell in love with the video of her wedding day. I recommend checking it out if you feel like ooo-ing and ah-ing. I think it's on the seconds page of her older posts.