Deadline Day

August 5, the day we asked wedding guests to kindly respond by, has come and gone. We've received many phone calls and emails from friends apologizing for their lack of attention to dates, how busy they've been, and how they are trying to figure out if they can make the 10-15 hour trip to Texas. All perfectly legitimate concerns. I mean, it takes quite a bit of effort to drop a pre-stamped, pre-addressed envelope in the mailbox. I'll let it slide.

I know work and life get to be too much for me to handle sometimes and adding in a walk to the end of my driveway seems like a ridiculous waste of time.

I know time just flies by and before you know it, you wake up on August 5 and think, "Wasn't there something I was supposed to do today?"

And I know that sending out-of-town guests a save the date card 5 months before the wedding just isn't enough time to think about whether or not and how they are going to come to Austin.

All that aside, we are still missing 20% of our response cards, including those from 2 groomsmen.