So glad you got it sorted! On the flip side, one of my close friends from school got married and invited us to the evening do. It was my due date! I told her that's we'd do our best to make it, but couldn't guarantee it for obvious reasons..... she actually seemed a bit pissed off about the fact that we might not make it?! Anyway - I had our baby (our first) exactly 1 week early. We decided to go along to the wedding with baby in tow and it was a lot of fun. I was at the bar grabbing drinks (soft for me still!) for me and Hubby and another friend whom I hadn't seen in years came up to me. She looked at me and said "I thought you were due a baby anytime now?" I replied "oh I had him last week - he's over there with hubby". She looked me up and down and didn't quite know what to say..... I'm guessing coming out of hospital half a stone lighter than when you fell pregnant (due to so much sickness) does have its advantages afterwards!!!!
Oh that was the first week of August too so if I'd still been pregnant there would not have been a cat in hells chance that I would have gone as it was a ridiculously hot summer and I had need struggling the last few weeks. Like a pp, I learned my lesson and had my second in January! If the wedding had been after that pregnancy, I would still have been pregnant as went a week over and completely unable to walk due to sciatica in both legs andvthen whrn I did have him I stayed in hospital for almost a week and generally struggled a lot more than with DS1. If it had been my third (and last) I was 8 days overdue but had the most horrendous time in labour and honestly couldn't do anything for weeks afterwards.
The thing with pregnancy is, even if you've done it before, you just don't know what is going to happen at the end there. Only 1 out of my three pregnancies I would have not been pregnant still, and only 1 of my labours was ok enough that I felt ok to do anything straight afterwards! You have no way of knowing how you will be - even if you had previous babies!
Good luck with your impending arrival. I hope the high risk pregnancy doesn't cause you or your baby any problems at all.
You said that your DH doesn't drive? What was his plan if you had gone to the wedding and had gone into labour there? I'm presuming you have a plan for someone to drive you to the hospital when you go into labour already (as high risk is guess you aren't allowed a home birth).
Anyways - glad your hubby saw sense! I hope that he does get to go to the evening do as that's a fab compromise he agreed to!