It’s been just over two weeks since the wedding…hard to believe that we are really married! Life is just starting to get back to normal, and our apartment is finally starting to look more like a home and less like a storage house.

For all of you reading that were at the wedding, we hope you enjoyed yourselves. We certainly had an amazing time – the entire wedding weekend was just perfect and everything we hoped it would be. Of course, there are a few things I would have done differently in retrospect…allot more time for pictures, make sure that the hotel would honor a late checkout, arrange for our meals to be packed up at the end of the night so that we might actually get to try the delicious dinner. Don’t worry, we didn’t go to bed hungry – the caterer picked us up some Kosher Subway meals…not exactly the wedding night meal we had envisioned! Though for everything that didn’t go quite according to plan, something else turned out better than we had expected…all in all…everything worked out great. We can’t wait to start posting pictures and video!

In other news, we received our marriage certificate in the mail today, so I guess it’s official! Now comes the fun part of changing my name…I never thought I’d be attached to “Berger” – but part of me is having a hard time giving it up. Not that “Woodall” isn’t a great last name…it’s just going to take some getting to used to realizing that when someone says “Mrs. Woodall”, they are talking about me!

We are fastly approaching the big day! Under ten days to go! Sunday will be just a week left! You could say that it’s all starting to hit me now (not in a bad way).

We’ve done a lot in the past few weeks. Finalized the program, purchased our wedding bands, bought the kippahs, picked up our marriage license — just to name a few.

Benchers should arrive this weekend and the printed programs will be ready on Monday. Not too much to do after that. Finalize seating, prepare the out-of-towner baskets, print out schedules for Shabbos, and finalize the wedding day schedule are about all I can think of. (I’m sure Ash can think of about 50 more things.)

Ash has been awesome in all of this. I don’t know how she does it. She’s been relatively calm (even though I have seen her stress level rise recently) through the whole process. I wasn’t expecting but was preparing for a bride-zilla. She has been nothing of the sort.

We both have a short week next week (only working Monday and Tuesday), but I’m quite certain that the real stress will start to happen then.

My family arrives on Wednesday/Thursday, so that will be nice for me. (Can’t wait to see Olivia!) I’m going to TRY and relax as much as possible on Wednesday and Thursday (don’t know if I will be able to though) and I’m going to try and hit the gym those days, too (to relieve whatever stress may be building up). Dad will be with me, so that will be nice. I’m shipping mom to the Berger’s to help Rachelle and Ash with the final preparations (sorry mom, someone’s got to bite the bullet).

I’ll try to post more as the day approaches (hopefully it will be easier to do so with time off). In the meantime, I leave you with the video/song that has been lodged in my brain ever since we hit the 10 day mark.

a magician named GOB

As Ash said below, we’re at one month (read: DEFCON 2). The good news is that I am pretty comfortable in where we are. Almost everything is under wraps. The order for Benchers was placed earlier this week and I placed the Kippot order just this morning. We are still finalizing the program but should have that done early next week. The remaining items are all pretty small/under control. I am very glad that we only had a 4 month engagement. I can’t imagine being under this much stress for a whole year. Can’t wait to see everyone next month!
Jeff

PS – Oh, and I suggest fasting the morning of the wedding. Not for any ceremonial/halachic reason, just because the appetizers at the schmorg are awesome. You’ll need the room.

I can’t believe it…but we have one month to go! The past few weeks have been a whirlwind…sending out invitations, hair trial, finalizing the centerpiece and two bridal showers…but the most important activity was the food tasting! Jeff and I (joined by my parents), met up with the wedding caterer to get a sample of the menu being served at the wedding. It’s unlikely Jeff and I will actually have time to eat that Sunday, but the rest of you are in for a treat! Maybe if we’re lucky…someone will save us a plate

The wedding website is up (http://www.mywedding.com/jeffandashleywoodall/index.html or you can access it from this site by clicking “Our Wedding” at the top) and we are feverishly adding content. Check it out!

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