MOSTOV'S MUSINGS

There will almost certainly be someone, somewhere, who can still take the date. But “available” and “right for us” are not remotely the same thing. A couple who started with 30 viable choices may now have five. And if those five are more expensive, don’t fit their personalities, require accepting an assigned DJ, or don’t offer the particular services they wanted, availability alone isn’t much consolation.

There is a quiet line in every wedding planning process—the moment where decisions stop evolving and start becoming real—and it is not always as easy to recognize as it sounds. In a world where ideas can be revisited, refined, and reshaped at any hour, it is tempting to believe that one more change will always make things better, that there is still time to get it just right. But weddings do not unfold in drafts, and the moments that matter most do not wait for clarity to cat