Weddings
doing it your way: tasteful vs. tacky.
Posted by Sara.
Everyone wants their special day to be special– that’s why we go to great lengths with the dress, the music, the flowers and all that. We want it to be a day that we remember, a day that all our friends and family will remember, too.
More and more, the standards on what is considered “acceptable” for wedding day planning have relaxed, allowing couples to express themselves like never before: it’s no longer considered a requirement to get married in a church and slow songs don’t have to be the standard for your first dance. Weddings can be as black tie or as backyard as you’d like them to be– the key is to make them truly about you.
Weddings | Comment (1)proof that it happened.
Posted by Sara.
So I was inspired by our other photo-posting bride and I figured I owed y’all who read this a photo of us from the wedding. I tried to upload one from our big dance number, but I couldn’t get it to aligned properly.
Weddings | Comment (1)The Wedding Industry…enforcing positive body image?!
Posted by Marielle.
Or, “My totally unexpected wedding dress success story.”
This is my first post in the Wedding blog, so let me introduce myself quickly: I’m a 23-year old queer casual femme who has been planning her wedding for almost two years… and somehow, I’m still in the beginning stages. I’m engaged to an awesome man, a guy I knew I would marry shortly after we met at age 15 (even if I didn’t know much else about myself back then). We’ve both grown a lot since then, separately, but somehow amazingly in the same direction. After a 4-year relationship hiatus, we got back together in college and knew we were meant to be. We got engaged on January 1, 2007 and we’ve finally attempted to set a date for Sept. 13, 2009. We haven’t picked a place yet because of a long and painful saga trying to find a kosher caterer in Eastern Pennsylvania — but that’s a blog post for another time. I’m an Indiebride wanna-be but taming the indie-bridal beast is an ever more daunting task. So hopefully I’ll use my trials and tribulations to help you find a comfy spot between the industry rock and the indie hard place.
So, let me tell you how I was totally shocked by David’s Bridal. Continue reading »
Weddings | Comment (1)forever and ever, amen.
Posted by Sara.
Well, it’s over now… we no longer are rushed, frantic, or constantly panicked. I have not talked to a florist, caterer, hairdresser, or judge in almost a week, and I’m more than happy about it. The last of the leftover desserts are just about polished off and some wedding flowers are still hanging on, although their time is just about up, too.
How did it go, you ask?
It went wonderfully.
Weddings | Comment (0)it all comes together in the end…
Posted by Sara.
alright, I owe you all a blog (or 6) about how the wedding turned out. In short: it was perfect.
Before I get to that, here are some of my pre-wedding day musings.
so here we are, just a few short days away from W-day… in the final stages of the planning. Now, with just about every detail covered, we are already beginning to reap the benefits of the hard work and planning: today was especially rewarding as 4 friends from Tejas flew in, along with my Maid of Honor, who now lives in San Francisco.
Weddings | Comment (0)Wedding planning rule #8459: Expect the unexpected.
Posted by Sara.
No matter how much you obsessively plan for anything, there will always be at least a few major things that do not go to plan: your reception venue burns down (didn’t happen to me, but happened this summer to some other SJ brides), your dress comes in the wrong size (happened to a coworkers now wife), or a hurricane hits the place where your soon-to-be in laws live, bringing a tree through their upstairs window, closing the airport, and potentially leaving them without electricity for weeks.
Obviously the most important this is that they are OK. Aside from the craziness of the storm, the two of them, and their cat, Brandy, are doing alright, although now they’re trying to figure out what to do– and how to get up to Jersey for our wedding.
Weddings | Comment (0)have I reached The Edge?
Posted by Sara.
We have just 8 days until our wedding and I’m beginning to feel an extreme mixture of apathy and panic about the final details for our wedding planning.
Apathy as in there are about 5 projects strewn about our living room, partially completed and I have no real motivation to go any further with any of them.
Panic as in I finally hit a point where I hit oh-shit-this-needs-to-be-done-so-I-have-to-do-it-RIGHTNOW adrenaline insanity mode. For instance, tonight, when I snuck into an AC Moore that had already closed so I could pull a supermarket sweep move and throw as many spools of chocolate brown and ivory ribbon into my hands as possible before one of the (understandably) annoyed clerks came through to somewhat politely push me out towards the registers. “M’mam, we closed 10 minutes ago. You need to bring your purchases up NOW.”
Weddings | Comment (0)No peek sneaking
Posted by Cindy.
So, I read Sara’s last blog. For those of you who don’t know this, Sara and I work together. I’m one of those people who was shocked at her sneak peeking and scolded her for looking at her registries a few months ago. I mean, that takes half of the fun out of it. For her work shower, her boss even had to go so far as to request that the store not place the item as fulfilled on her registry until after we had it in fear of her finding out about what she got beforehand.
As a fellow bride-to-be, I know about the amount of planning that goes into a wedding. You plan the smallest detail – I mean, you even choose the presents you get. Why not wait and see what’s left after the wedding?
Weddings | Comment (0)peek sneaking?
Posted by Sara.
So I admit it.
I am a peek-sneaker.
Not sure what I’m talking about?
Register and you’ll know what I mean…
Apparently it is not the proper etiquette to go on the retail store’s wedding registry site after registering to see what has and has not been purchased for you. When I mentioned to people I checked the site periodically (i.e., obsessively), I was chastised. A lot.
“But you’re not SUPPOSED to do that!!!!”
Well, if I’m not supposed to, then why am I able to???
Weddings | Comment (0)it’s better to igive than receive.
Posted by Sara.
Although I’ve been shelling out a whole hell of a lot of money on some pretty insane stuff (see: “But It’s Just a Box That Holds Cards”), I’ve found a site that makes me feel OK about the $$ I’m spending: www.igive.com
www.igive.com is a great site that is connected with all kinds of businesses who allow a percentage of your purchase to go to the charity of your choice. They have a HUGE list of options to select from and if you’re involved in a non-profit, you can register with them to receive donations. The rabbit rescue I work with, For Bunny Sake (www.petfinder.com/shelters/NJ375.html), is registered on this site, so while I’ve been making hotel reservations through Orbitz, buying wedding shoes on shoebuy.com, and taking care of a whole heap of other random wedding purchases I’ve had to make, I’ve been helping save bunnies in the process! Even better is you can have your guests sign up to use the site (it’s all free!) and they too can contribute towards your favorite cause.
Weddings | Comment (0)