POSTCARDS!!

You know how you plan and think and get ready for something, but then something happens that makes the whole affair somehow feel real?  Well, for me, I had another one of those moments when I got home from work yesterday and found three identical postcards in the mailbox, each of which had the names of people confirming that they would be with us at the wedding.  And then today, nine more.  Amazing.  It's, like, Hey, this RSVP stuff really works.  And People really are coming to our wedding.

Prior to the cards, there was a sense of unreality to it.  First off, June was a long way off.  Not so much now, but when I woke up on New Year's Eve morning and said to Nora, "How about June 11?", it seemed like a REALLY long way off.  And when we ultimately settled on June 25th, it was even further off.  Second, we talk to lots of people who are excited about the wedding, and it's just become a common topic of conversation.  And third, the planning has been so ongoing and so dense that it's become a logistical task, which I do for a living.

But now, we have postcards with people's own handwriting that says they're coming to our wedding.  That's pretty cool, and the stack of postcards that arrive from away has a materiality to it that gets lost when I'm looking at a spreadsheet and calculating how many bottles of cider we need.

Y'all are coming to our wedding.  That really feels big to me right now.  Thanks.  (There's a list down the side of who's said yes on the cards so far—have a look and see who you recognize.)