Summer Reception?

Now that things seem to be clearer about A's job with his company, we're deciding to finally have the wedding reception.

Thing is, when we had the first one, it was supposed to be extremely small but then we found out that during the month of October we (meaning my family, basically) had many relatives visiting from many different countries. So, though trying to keep the guestlist extremely short, we ended up hosting more than 70 people... seriously, I think we all lost count.

But alhamdulillah (thank to Allah) everything turned out beautifully, in a way.

Of course, there were some things that I wasn't too thrilled about during the first official part of my marriage... well pretty much the fact that I had no control over anything. Everyone was freaking out... and me and my raging hormonal self (terrified to be taking such a major life-changing leap of faith) could not get a word in edge-wise.

So, yeah, I basically watched things as a spectator... hardly felt like my wedding :(
LOL.

I guess from that it must be clear now that this time round, I'm wanting to do things in a better more organized way... which involves my hubby and I.

Well, I guess I asked for it... so I got it. Problem is, everyone's like, "Oh, we planned the first event, so you're on ur own for this one... we've done our part."
That firstly makes me feel isolated... apart from scaring the daylights out of me.

I'm 21 yrs old (going on to 22) and haven't lived in my home country (the US) for that long. Plus, I've never really attended a wedding here... so do I know what planning a wedding entails? Nope.

But... I'm trying. And, things aren't exactly running smoothly, I'll say. I'm still determined to stay positive... yes, it's hard. I hate when you feel like you're running around in circles! lol.

Anyhow, so yeah, we got my husband's reception outfit today. It came in from Pakistan :D And, I pretty much love it, alhamdulillah.

It's cream, or more as what I would describe as camel colored :P LOL. That's my 'having been brought up in Arabia' side talking, I guess!

Anyhow, yeah, I love it :DDD

Ok, where was I?

Oh yeah, so we both have our reception outfits... HOORAY! But, we have no venue... because we have no venue, we can't finalize the reception date. We know that we want it in the first week of Aug... either Aug 1st or 8th! Still, we can't finalize it unless we know if we have a place to hold it!

Since we don't know where to hold it nor do we have a fixed date, we can't print cards... if we can't print cards, we can't have people RSVP. If people don't RSVP, then if the hall isn't big enough, we'll have another issue at hand!

Wedding planning is CRAZAAAY! haha. But, I think I love craziness :P

I'm still excited, nervous and scared as hell. But, I have ultimate faith in Allah (God) that things are going to work out beautifully insha'Allah (if Allah wills).

We find out March 13th...

Yeah, Friday the 13th! Watever! I'm not the least bit superstitious.

Anyhow, yeah, so apparently my husband's company has laid off around 8,000 employees and now they're going from employee-to-employee informing them whether they have been laid off, or not.

My husband will find out on March 13 :(

And if he is informed of being laid off, March 26th could be his last working day!

This is pretty crazy but thankfully we've filed on time, but yeah, he might have to move-in with my family and I.

Which would be nice because I like my state better than his! haha

But, at the same time, I don't know if I would be ok with the family dynamics being set that way :S

We've only been married 5 months and haven't lived together and so we really need time on our own to get to connect on another level.

Not to mention, some private time.

My house only has 3 bedrooms-- a master bedroom for my parents, then my sister and I both have our own rooms.

So yeah, it'll be weird for sure!

But hopefully things'll happen for the best and I'm not that worried.

I'm a strong believer in the power of Allah (God) and so yeah, though I am concerned, I'm hardly worried at all.

Been almost 5 months...

Wow time flies!

Alhamdulillah (All praise be to Allah) that I have had an amazing 5 months of marriage :)

And, my hubby continues to be the most patient person that I have EVER come across, in my life! I gotta say... wow...haha.

Anyhow, yeah, haha... a thought on the word 'patience', I am more of the impatient type! LOL... well i mean i guess it depends.

Okie dokie, too much yapping...

So... what's going on in our life?

Well, my husband is on an h1 visa and with the way the economy is going, who's to say how long anyone will have their job?

For that reason, my hubby and I are currently filling in a crazy number of forms to file for his immigration.

With an h1 visa status, the problem is that if you lose your job then you have 60 days to find another one that'll PAY for another h1 visa so that you can work for them and stay in the country... OR ASTA LA BYE BYE :(

It's hard enough being in a different state than 'A', there's nooo way in hell that I'm letting them kick him out of the country! :(

Hopefully things'll go well... though the whole "filling in a gazillion forms" drama was like beginning to drive me up the wall, but hopefully we are now done and can submit them and be over with it for now.

Also, since we're long distance, we had to keep mailing forms back and forth so that I could sign them... not to mention the times that we made mistakes on the form and so we had to re-mail them to each other with corrections!

Pure madness, i tellya!

But, hey :) The price of being happily married ;)