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Ok- who wants another wedding rant?  Me! 

Actually I have to confess something- I like bread.  A lot.  And beer!  And eating!  Eating more than a salad with no dressing, or worse lo fat dressing!  I like cheese- actually I love cheese.  If I weren’t marrying Ben- I might spend all my time with cheese.  They would start calling me cheese girl because I would smell like cheese.  Luckily I’m marrying Ben and won’t be a weird cheese bride.  ANYWAY.  I just wanted to confess this because I feel like anytime I look into “bride” things- there are no pictures of brides who like bread- or cheese.  And I can’t go on  a wedding website without seeing things like “lose 20 pounds in a week!”  “Be the perfect bride, at the perfect size”, “This is the best shape you’ll be in your life- flaunt it”.  There’s even a show that is all about overweight brides slimming down for their wedding.  Are normal sized people not allowed to get married?  Can I not be an overweight bride?  Are they going to take away the wedding license?  I mean- seriously people.  I understand the bridal industry that’s all about giving you this wonderful day to start off the rest of your life- but the wedding fitness/ diet industry?  Totally unhealthy.  Totally- overzealous.  I think that a lot of people go on these crash diets (not me- I can’t commit to crash diets) because they think that’s what they need to do before their wedding.  They buy wedding dresses 3 sizes to small 6 months before the wedding. 

Hey- there are a ton of fun parties to be had before the wedding.  Wouldn’t it suck not to be able to eat at them?  So, I’ll be eating bread- right up to and during the wedding.  How else am I going to keep from getting sloppy drunk?!  (KIDDING!)

I’ve been very relaxed about the wedding, but there’s one thing that’s really been burning my muffins- this whole wedding industry thing.  I mean- who decided it was ok for to charnge $5 for 1 chair for a fifteen minute ceremony $5!!  I mean- who makes $5 for fifteen minutes?  Not me!  Doesn’t it seem odd to pay a chair more than you make?  And we’re having about 200 people, so that’s 1000 dollars!  For FIFTEEN minutes!!  I understand- there’s set up and break down, but heck- that’s crazy.  Craziness.  Thanks for listening…

obviously we did not go with the place who would charge us this- how would I be able to look myself in the mirror again.  sigh.

Ben and Lindsey

Lindsey is an aspiring artist by night and an office assistant by day. Ben is saving the world and trying to fit in more golf time. Together they are planning a wedding that will take place June 7, 2008 in Sturbridge, MA. Without the conventional help of a wedding planner and with both of them having equal say, they are marching into the uncharted territories (for them) of wedding planning!