So, I've been religiously checking the forecast every day to see what the weather would be like on December 2nd. For as long as the weather can be predicted in advance, it's been showing up as partially cloudy, 0% chance of rain, winds up to 9 miles per hour. High of 64 degrees. Low of 48. Sounds like perfect wedding weather to me. Perhaps just a tiny bit chilly as we get close to sundown, but close enough to perfect. Until today, when 0% chance of rain jumped up to 30%, then down to 20% then up to 40%. Rain. In the afternoon. Likely when I'm going to be having my ceremony.
The venue has backup indoor options, but I'm just feeling so overwhelmed at the thought of changing my ceremony location a week before the wedding. And the thought of having to make another major decision because 40% isn't guaranteed, but at a certain point we'll have to choose if we risk a potential outdoor wedding with rain or a potential indoor wedding and not a drop falls. Either way I'm going to be upset. But one way will potentially leave guests drenched in a now predicted high of 60 degrees, low of 39.
They say it's good luck if it rains on your wedding day. And if I was a person who liked stormy weather (I know they're out there), I would probably view it as romantic. But I'm like a cat in this regard. I don't like getting wet. I like partially cloudy. I love winter snow. But I don't like shivering in a wet winter sludge (well, who does?).
If my ceremony had already been scheduled for inside I probably wouldn't sweat a few drops or even a quick downpour en route to the wedding location. But I had planned for an outdoor ceremony and I loved the look of the venue's gazebo and aisle and the grass and the nature--it was so storybook. It was the closest I could come to a California-ish landscape in Nevada. And now I might not even get a desert. I might get the inside of a hotel convention center (their backup location), which works for some people of course--I'm not knocking convention centers. But it wasn't for me, or else I would have chosen one from the beginning, and probably one closer to home.
Things could be a lot worse (and there's still time for other things to go wrong!). But it's just frustrating when you've been planning something for half a year and spending half your savings to make it happen, only to learn a week ahead of time that it might be completely different from what you wanted and envisioned. Then add the stress of not knowing for absolute certain one way or the other until the day of.
I guess all I can do is roll with the punches and know that in the end everything will work out. Even if it doesn't happen how I imagined it, it still has to happen. Ready or not, here we come.
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