This will be a revelation for approximately three of you:
I got engaged. (I keep meaning to call habermas girl to tell her...)
Now, it was romantic. We were in Key West (neither of us had ever been there before), it was beautiful and lovely and my beau did a beautiful job of chosing a time and a place that make a good story.
It's just that, when you get married, you end up having to have a wedding. And while I enjoy attending weddings, and plan to be thrilled with my own, I've never longed to PLAN one.
Also, the wedding will be, well, a long way away from where I curently live. So that makes planning more awkward as well.
But, still, I am getting married, and we've actually picked a place to have the wedding.
I have to stop talking about it right now. Because I've spent all day reading brides posts on theknot.com and I must admit it mostly makes me want to vomit. "Where did you get YOUR monogrammed tea towel favors??" "Oh, I luuuuv the way my bridesmaid's dresses look, and my colors are champagne, olive, and peach!" I mean, I have to trawl through these looking for recommendations for service people like photographers, bakers, etc, but you should read this stuff! AGH! How many people are happily married today who never had the following ridiculous things:
1) Wedding favors. Do guests need a small trinket to remind them YOU got married?
2) A wedding logo or monogram. Seriously. AND people make AISLE RUNNERS from these. So your wedding is a design event, and you brand that wedding with these images. How about the image of you in a dress and your groom in a tux? Isn't that enough wedding branding for you??
3) I will call down the rage of the recently wed now, but...matching bridesmaids dresses. And from the photos, many women force their nearest and dearest to wear really elaborate dresses, that probably cost $200-$300. That's INSANE!
4) Along the same lines, all the women today had a cutesy gift made up in order to ask their bridesmaids to be bridemaids. Like a cookie bouquet. I feel sort of guilty about this one - I mean, I just called my friend and my sister-in-law and flat out ASKED them. I didn't know I was supposed to use it as an excuse to make a huge production.
5) Chair covers. What, you'd prefer it didn't look like a chair?
6) A color scheme at all. Sure, your flowers will look prettier if they match, but is it necessary to have a four color SCHEME??
I am just skimming the surface here. I wish I could have an insanely beautiful intricate SMALL wedding, but I have certain impediments.
1) Money
2) Time
3) Common Sense
I have a feeling the next nine months are going to be full of decisions that will drive me nuts.
