Yes indeed, it’s only one more month until our wedding (only 29 days until the civil wedding). Time to look back on the last few weeks – since the dress arrived, we haven’t written any updates here. What we did do, though, is to write an article about our story together. It was published as a separate page, so if you haven’t seen it yet, you may want to go there.
In the meantime we have finished redecorating the house – living room and office (finally in separate rooms) are on the first floor now, as is the new kitchen, which we took over from our friends who used to live there before. The cupboards in the living room are assembled (hint: to assemble a 2m high IKEA Besta cupboard, you need a room that is 4m long!) and even have all their doors and drawers. On the second floor we have our newly redecorated bedroom and the main bath, as well as a guest room and the old kitchen we no longer use, but plan to turn into a room for one of the children we plan on having in the not too distant future. Even our bedroom furniture has finally arrived and now lead a lonely life in the bedroom, since Holger is currently using the guest room to sleep in, so he doesn’t get used to having the new bedroom all to himself
. We’re very happy with all the choices we made and are very much looking forward to finally making it our bedroom.
We’re quite surprised how many points on our checklists we were already able to check. The number of open items has gone down considerably. If for some reason the beginning of June would come sooner than expected (say next week), we wouldn’t have to panic and would still be able to have a slightly improvised, but nice wedding. But there’s still lots to do. Not only does Heidi still have to move out of her flat and a lot of stuff in this house is still waiting to be stored and sorted – no, we also have four days of evangelistic youth events coming up in our church next week, which we are involved in. And of course there are quite a lot of things that still need to be planned (or at least the plans need some polishing) – mainly because we wouldn’t mind if everything worked great on June 6th.
Today we’ll also pay another visit to our jeweller – it’s our 7th trip. And that’s not because we’re buying so much… here’s what happened: 1) checked out the selection of rings, 2) ordered the rings we wanted, 3) went to pick up the rings… Heidi’s ring had a stone in it, which we didn’t want, 4) picked up the rings we actually ordered, 5) took the rings back after we discovered manufacturing defects, 6) checked that the rings were in the condition we expected before getting them engraved (again) and finally 7) pick up the rings. Good thing we started early…