Hey everyone, as some of you know, we are planning from a distance. We are living in Thunder Bay and our wedding is in London, Ontario where I was born and raised. It's an 18 hour drive, or a 2 hour plane ride to Toronto, then 2 hours (depending on Traffic) to London.
Up until recently, I felt like planning was going OK, but as we slowly get closer to the day, it is getting a little overwhelming. We have to travel down to London every now and then, which cuts into vacation time for work and flying is $$$. We are looking at consolidating most of the travel into 2 trips maximum, but FH is on shift work and gets 4 days off so we would only going for 4 days at a time, 2 of those days will be spent mostly flying. He can't apply for additional time off since he's banking it all for the wedding (law enforcement). I will be taking some unpaid days for some planning as well.
For some things, like hair and makeup trials, he doesn't have to be there, but when we meet with our officiant to go over the ceremony, we both have to be there. So now I'm thinking of having FH travel for the 4 days, and if needed I can stay a few extra to do other things. I was also hoping to have him be apart of tastings for catering and cake, but depending on time, we can only do so much in the 4 days, and he might miss this stuff.
It's starting to bum me out that some of the things I thought we could be a team on, are looking like solo projects for me. He says whatever I pick will be good but I would be great if he was more able to be a part of it. Also, when are we ever going to be able to go tasting expensive catering menus again?! lol
I was hoping if someone else is doing distance planning if you had advice/words of encouragement. You guys are great at offering kind words and advice when my head is spiralling!
