As always too many things have been saved for the last minute. Not the least of those is my groom’s outfit! He’ll be wearing a shorten Indian sherwani that is a creamy color with embroidery. The problem? Finding pants to go with it! Try to find lightweight cream slacks right now! The hunt did not go well, both of us totally stressed out trying to accomplish this at absolutely the wrong time. We finally went to a really upscale men’s boutique here in town with a plea for help.

As we walked in we said “We hope you can save our wedding!” It’s interesting how helpful an objective third party can be! They had the cream colored slacks I thought would work but the guy at the salon also insisted a nice chocolate brown would be really nice. (Chocolate brown is actually what my fiance wanted.) I kept thinking chocolate brown on the beach?!? Sounds so wrong but I finally gave in after the guy at the boutique insisted it would be really good. On the upside though, he was able to convince my groom that a more contemporary fit, flat front pant would work well for him (something he wasn’t interested in by my suggestion alone). So we ended up with brown but flat!

After all that ‘fun’, we came home and worked through packing and think we’re going to be ok! We got the lanterns and welcome bag items packed which was the most important. He will have a hard shell suitcase with lanterns, plus they will take up about half a duffel, so there is his to checked bags. Luckily he doesn’t have to pack much – doesn’t really need much more than a carry-on. I will have a duffel full of welcome bag stuff, plus a second checked duffel with fudge and my clothing. Then my carry-on and checked bag. I am SO GLAD I arranged to have a car service pick me up and take me to the airport! (We are flying from different cities but will meet in Atlanta.)

After shopping and packing we decided we needed to chill out with a movie, pizza and wine. Pizza and wine are things I definitely didn’t need and then I kept thinking about some of the chocolates we are bringing with us – some orange chocolate Dutch Pastilles. Neither of us have actually tried them so we figured we might as well before giving them to our guests. Oh my gosh – they’re so good! We ate most of the tube. Then this morning I finished them off and continued my bad behavior with a carrot cake cupcake from the bakery on the corner. I think in the last 24 hours I undid a week’s worth of workouts.