Tick tock, tick tock… C’mon, RSVP already, people!

I’ve always known I can be a bit of a procrastinator at times but I didn’t know how many other procrastinators there were out there ’till now… and all of them are our friends.

When we sent out our wedding invitations, we included a card with information on how to contact our travel agent before May 10th. Yes, I did end up underlining the date, after about an hour of hemming and hawing over it (will it come off as being too pushy? but if I don’t, will they see it? is it better to bold than to underline?? AHHHH!!!). This date is also plastered all over our wedding website.

Now that day is four days away–fewer, actually, since the 10th is a Saturday and she doesn’t work Saturdays (wonder why she gave us the 10th as a date then? that’s kind of silly)–I’m stressing out since the only people who have booked thus far are our immediate families and close extended family (aunts/uncles/cousins), and my Fiance’s parents’ friends.

I mean, when we announced it, everyone and their dog exclaimed how totally pumped they were and how they were definitely coming, etc. etc. We’re at 34 people, which is actually on the larger side for a destination wedding, at least based on what I’ve read on the various forums. But only, like, 3 of those are our friends (who are not related to us)… and our estimate was closer to 70.

I can’t help but freak out a bit.

I’m sure part of it has to do with the fact that us younger people have a harder time planning vacations and booking off work, plus there’s the baby boom–quite a few of them have become pregnant since we got engaged. And I know for a fact a few have said that it’s so far away they just have a hard time committing. Far away? It’s six months!! And here I was stressing out a month ago that I was soooo far behind in booking the resort since so many other girls out there book theirs like, a YEAR in advance. I wonder how they got their guests to book so far ahead?

So I convinced the Fiance to send out a reminder email tonight. After all, they’re mostly his friends anyway, and (he didn’t say it but I’m sure he thought it) that way I wouldn’t go type-A all over them. I love them all, truly. But jeez, people!

Am I being unreasonable?