OK, so maybe this comes as a surprise to absolutely no one but me, but I am totally loving this wedding planning business. Now that we have our venue, caterer and photographers locked down, I feel like I can really let loose with all the ideas that have been storing up in my brain! The last thing D and I want is a cookie cutter wedding-we want something beautiful, unique and meaningful to us and all of you wonderfuls that will be there with us! The Internet has been such an amazing, albeit ridiculously overwhelming, resource.
It's really insane how much is written about weddings, and the lists of things you "need" for your big day (balloon artist, anyone?). However, it is helpful to find these huge wedding to-do lists and pick and choose what pieces of them work best for you. No, I don't think we'll be having that multimedia laser light show, but yes, we should figure out what to do for a guest book. I would never have thought of a guest book on my own. This is why these crazy lists are helpful. (And yes, I realize that guest books are quite standard. Let's just say that my creative mind doesn't think about THOSE types (ahem, boring) of details. I am plan to make even the guest book fun, though...)
I've also come across some books that I think will really help with some good thoughts and ideas as we get into the nitty-gritty planning details. I just got this book from the library yesterday and dove right into it. It's nicely broken up into stages--I skipped right past the "Do you really want to get married?" and "Announcing Your Engagement" (thank you, Facebook) sections and am just picking through the sections that speak to what we are trying to accomplish. So far it is a little generalized for what I am looking for, but I'm hopeful that, like a good mystery novel, the plot will thicken soon enough.
Hopefully the same will happen for this blog. I'll write something a bit more substantive soon enough.
xo
The Fiancee
