When even your vendors tell you to chill a bit: confessions of an over-eager bride with a long engagement.

Yes for just a little time. You'll feel good. But we will be ther waiting for you

Ooo nice! It doesn't look too hard so it should turn out well! Haha when we have guests come over, we like to have them guess whose painting is who's.

Yay! Have fun! What type of painting are you doing?

I was so stressed out about my wedding, that I took a break for like 3 months not talking about it, not thinking about it and I can tell you that I felt great after. And now everything that I do is more smoothly and everything is going so fine. So yes sometimes you have to relax a little just enjoy the engagement and your partner.

I'm the same way, but to be honest, you have to be like that! Photographers, make up artists, and other vendors are booking up (well here in the Greater Toronto Area), so whatever! I'm with you. I go over my pinterest boards every few weeks to keep myself occupied and "current" on trends I like, haha!

We painted a bridge and some trees. It was in purples and blues so I liked it! A Harry Potter bar sounds AWESOME! I'm going to Harry Potter World on Sat and am so excited!
Dance lessons are a great idea too! We did some for our first dance and I loved it. Collin did too surprisingly! If it wasn't so expensive, I'd love to do more! I'm keeping my eyes open for a Groupon!

I'd work on doing your music list. It is a very long thing to do to research songs and then choose the ones you like, perhaps even test dancing to them with your fiancee would be a fun way to have a date together that goes towards your end date. The other bonus is listening to music, on you tube etc does not take up any space lol

We totally should!!! I just absolutely can't handle crowds (incredibly claustrophobic!), so that's why I've been waiting

OMG I've been waiting for the Harry Potter bar to lose some popularity so I can check it out!

Do either of your parents have space for you to store things? Could you start making things and then store them at someone's house?

Sam had some good suggestions too!! I also like to do old lady things like cross stitch, keeps my hands busy (and not snacking), or you could knit.

That's an awesome idea! I love scrapbooking. It's so relaxing. I like the photobooks but it is fun to have physical momentos. I like to save things like movie ticket stubs and business cards for restaurants we've tried so that I can incorporate them into the scrapbook pages. Have you tried one of those wine and painting nights? They're so much fun and great for a girls night or a date night! My husband and I just did one a couple weeks ago.

I can't wait to see your engagement pictures! I'm sure you have it all figured out already. If not, you could work on that too!

Haha well I'd always rather be over eager than too laid back! I'm definitely Type A as well and I think it's great that you have everything figured out. There's lots of options for the meantime! You could join a yoga class or a trampoline exercise class! You could make a photobook of your engagement pictures! Have you taken them yet? I made a photobook each year for the first 2 years of our relationship but have still been meaning to make the other 3.... I could sit and work on that stuff for hours! And it's been fun to go back and look at everything and be like "oh yeah remember that?" or "we were so young!" or "what did we do for Valentine's Day that year?..." I also did one for our nephew's first birthday because I know my SIL wouldn't have time to make one and I made copies for us, my BIL and SIL, my MIL and my husband's grandma since they were all at the birthday. It's been a great family keepsake! I love pictures so I love scrapbooking and making photobooks. Scrapbooking has been my project post-wedding since now I'm done with wedding planning! For photobooks, I prefer using Shutterfly to Snapfish because it's more customizable.

You could also start going to swapmeets to start looking for decorations for the wedding! We have a vintage fair once a month by our apartment and everything is either vintage or vintage inspired and it was so much fun to just walk around and browse! I found our card box there. (I know you said you don't have a lot of space but it's fun just to get out and explore and it may take a couple trips before you find something. Or you could always get the vendor's card and then call them up when you're ready to start storing wedding stuff!) We had a long engagement and a small apartment too so I get it! We've been slowly organizing things over the past couple months to fit our leftover wedding decorations and wedding gifts! (along with the couple of boxes that we never unpacked when we moved in )