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We’ve been married and honeymooned! Everything was spectacular, and we’re back! More pictures coming soon!
photo by Daniel Gabriel
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.
This is it- Less than 7 weeks to go! It’s pretty amazing- people say to you you’re entire engagement, “Enjoy it, it’ll go really fast.” And you think – come on – we’re going to be engaged for 2 years- that’s forever! But it did go fast. It went really fast. So fast that I can’t believe it’s almost here. What else am I going to get to plan for 2 years? My to- do list keeps getting smaller, my moods are becoming a little more erratic, and I’m constantly suprised by the fact that we’re still being congratulated on being engaged. That’s just me, though.
Invitations are done! Eventhough I used this picture somewhere else-
That’s the back of Jessie and Dan’s invitation. The inner envelope, as it is called. I love my invitations.
That’s the actual invitation with the overlay. It’s quite pretty- I’ll have to take some pictures of the inside of a finished one!
We go to see the mock up of our rings tonight! That’s very exciting! I can’t wait to see how they look!!! And then we get to see Bob, which is almost exciting except that I’m not going to wear Bob on my finger every day for the rest of my life.
I still have to:
- write my vows
- find wine for the wine ceremony
- find bags for the whole glass/ lightbulb breaking thing
- paint and draft a ketubah
- make/ find a handfasting cord
- make the welcome bags
- make the programs
- make place cards
- get thank you cards
Well- that’s all I can think of. I must be forgetting something!
Ben got his outfit for the wedding! How exciting! We went to Men’s Warehouse with his dad on Tuesday and had a great time looking at a bunch of different suits.
Doesn’t he look handsome? The turtleneck is only for color- please do not be alarmed. Ben will not be wearing a turtleneck at the wedding. I’m quite excited about it- this was the one thing we had left to do that I was getting really anxious about. He kept saying things like- I could go out two weeks before the wedding and find my suit. ARG.
Ah well- Doesn’t he look handsome? I really like this color on him!
Well not really. You see the wedding is about 3 months and three weeks away. I mean, if I think back three months it feels like yesterday! Let’s do it together. Remember November 15th? Just days before Thanksgiving?! That was like- yesterday!! Anyway- we’re working on getting everything finalized for the wedding. We’ve got our bridesmaids’ dresses all set, and I’m working on invites. We also have our flowers pretty much nailed down.
Speaking of flowers- I LOVE our florist! Her name is Michelle Bernard and she is such fun!
We went to a tasting at our site and she did a bunch of mock up arrangements for all the tables.
Here’s us at the tasting:
This is a centerpiece with a hurricane lamp that will be pretty similar to my centerpieces:
And here’s a light purple and green arrangement that is simply gorgeous!
I’m getting quite excited about the wedding as we wind down to the last couple of decisions to be made. I have a short to do list. Of course it includes making the invitations, but more about that later!
So- I ordered last week! Right before I left for Thanksgiving in DC! The picture we ended up using was the last one I posted- the lighthouse.
And then I put a picture of us at the bottom of the back of the card.
it’s a little dark- but cute!
That’s my story. Thanks everyone for their suggestions! I will post pictures of the actual save the dates one I get them!
Here is another option for Save The Dates. Thanks Jessie for the suggestion!
So- due to a thousand reasons I am not screenprinting 100 Save the Date cards. I know – everyone is saying- DUH LINDSEY- who has time to screen print 100 Save the Date cards. Yeah yeah– That’s what Ben said also.
What we are doing is post cards!! YAY POST CARDS! Simple, easy, a little tacky, but fast! The problem is that we need a good picture for the post card. So- I’m sharing a couple options with you, but I need input!!
There’s this picture, which is cute, but a little creepy looking:
This picture is cute, but maybe a bit overused?
And then we could do something that’s not us- like this
Or this
So- that’s where I am. I am VERY excited about the post cards! We are going to get them printed at Moo.com- which I LOVE! If you have a flickr account it can immediately access your pictures. I get Moo cards printed all the time, and they are awesome for passing out to people. Everyone is always impressed by the quality and the size!
Thanks for the comments!
So I have to say that we are already about two months behind in our wedding calendar on our save the dates! We had a design, chucked it, and now have moved on to smaller and more manageable ideas!
Here’s the first one: The ides was for it to be like a little booklet.
We were going to have this quilt project where we asked people to send in fabric to create into a quilt to be used as our huppa. It could be a sort of visual representation of our friends and family, but as it happens- we didn’t get it off the ground, and it takes quite a while to make a quilt while you aren’t waiting for 175 people to send you swatches of fabric! SO- We scrapped that and realized that this design no longer worked. NOW we’re planning on this design:
This image on the right is a picture of the inside. A lighthouse (we were engaged in front of a light house), hotel information on one flap and an Abigail Adams quote on the other. The image on the right is the front. Pictures of Ben and I in colonial style, and a printed 06-07-08 across the top. Jessie is still going to make us an awesome quilt, but she is using fabric purchased from a store and it will become our guest book! I’m so excited! You can read about it in her blog! I’m very excited. Now all I have to do is sit down figure out the design, actually print it out, get it printed 200 times, and mail them!
Piece of cake.
