Fairly, not Frilly (....in Philly)

OK - I'm back from my week in the Boston area where I was attending the national convention of the Swedenborgian Church. I volunteered for some things in the church while I was still in school, never expecting the commitments would continue 5+ years. The big perk is that I get to go to Convention and hang out with my mom, my "beta-mom" (Mom's best friend) and lots of good friends.
Now that school's out and convention's over, I can feel, for a short while, that I am actually on vacation. Yet, we are still planning a wedding here!
So - time to open up and introduce you all to the one comic strip I regularly read online. Lynn Johnson's For Better Or For Worse
To call it a "comic" is almost a misnomer. It's more like a whimsical little family-oriented soap opera, with poignant "ah, life" funnies instead of "ha-ha" funnies - though, to be fair, I feel like there must be a "ha-ha" in there somewhere. Over the past few years, I've enjoyed following the drama of character Liz's love life, and it just so happens that we are both getting married soon.
So - though I haven't yet experienced the utter....frazzled-ness? (or shall I use the word "frazzle" itself as a noun?) ... depicted in today's strip exactly - the emotion of urgency and nervousness over the planning is definitely there just beneath the surface.
I also feel compelled to note that, rather than working on the wedding with my mom (though she pitches in as well as she can from 600 miles away and will be working on making cookies by the hundreds for the big event), I am working on it primarily with my almost-HUSBAND, Julius. I am so lucky to have a partner who shares our life's tasks without delineations of "man's work" or "woman's work", even down to the frillier aspects of a wedding (Um - not that our wedding really qualifies as particularly "frilly" as weddings go). Besides, practicing how to work together well and fairly without getting bratty toward each other is just another page out of our ongoing efforts toward better living through Gestalt Therapy. (Maybe I can add a link to that later. For now, you'll just have to look it up.)