As most of you know, I have a wedding coming up in the very near future. I am anticipating it so much… I just can’t wait! We now have more people attending than we originally expected, and by a fair margin. We were originally planning on about 60 people or so, and now we have over 90! The guests are going to consist of: Both of our families, Anita’s friends from high school, a few of my friends from my childhood, some of my Poker friends (durrrr, Raptor, Mike Matusow, jcmoussa, etc), other friends of mine I’ve met throughout my life, and a lot of our guests’ guests, because a lot are traveling from far away and won’t know anybody, so a lot of them are allowed a guest. I’m pretty much going all out in this wedding as much as possible within my immediate means. We’re getting top of the line everything for the most part, photography, cake, flowers, DJ, musicians, etc. This is a once in a lifetime thing for us, and I can’t see myself holding back on such an important and memorable event. I’m actually in the car right now riding home from the Flower/Table set up place to look at a “mock” table with all of our decorations, flowers, candles, and cloths set up on it. It looked great, just like how I thought it would.

For the wedding, Anita and I decided to take some dance lessons and learn some choreography for our first dances when the reception begins. We’ve been taking lessons every day with our instructor and so far we have the first two minutes out of the five minute routine finished. It’s not perfect quite yet, but we’re going to practice as much as possible to make it really smooth between now and the wedding. I have to say, I am very impressed at the skill our dance instructor possesses. Sometimes she’s not absolutely clear coming across with how she wants us to do a move, but her ideas and flow of the choreography so far has been top notch, it goes great with the first song we picked out.

Recently, as documented through my blogs, poker has been giving me a rough time, even further, while I was supposed to be relaxing on vacation! Yesterday, I got stuck about $30-35,000 and then made about a $50,000 turn around and dropped a little back at the end, but booked about a $5-6k winning session which I felt relieved about. I’ve also won $10k here and there the past couple days as well. It’d be nice if I could have one month where this would keep going, and I think this honestly might be the time. I’ve tinkered with my game some lately and made some adjustments, and so far the results have been positive.

While going through the poker swings, I have this wedding to keep together and make decisions on. Lots and lots of decisions is what weddings are all about I’ve found out through this process. Fortunately, I have Anita who has been working very hard despite the fact we have a good wedding planner; that just shows how much work there is to really be done. After this wedding, I’ll be off on a Cunard Cruise Ship to Europe for a while in hopes of knocking down an EPT tournament or making big $ over in the live cash games there which I hear are pretty soft.