As you may have noticed from many of my previous blogs, I’m planning a wedding. As you may have also noticed, I don’t know much about it and am sort of stressing out about it.
In my life, for being two weeks shy of 28, I have only attended a handful of weddings-a couple of cousins, a family friend, our horseshoer (like 20 years ago!), Joe’s sister, one of the techs from work. I’ve never been in one…technically, I am going to be in one (finally!) in October. Despite being one of Tiffany’s bridesmaids (I might also officially be the maid of honor), I haven’t done ANY wedding planning. I feel like I might be a little behind the curve for most women my age.
Wedding planning is going very slowly. I’ve purchased a half dozen or so wedding magazines and tore out what I felt was relevant. I have these pages in a binder which I have grand plans for once I get around to doing some more organizing. I bought a book entitled ‘Wedding Planning for Dummies’…which is now MIA.
Joe and I are planning on having the wedding in Missouri. Most likely in Columbia as it is central between our two hometowns. This alone makes things much more difficult. Not easy to go taste wedding cake when you’re over a thousand miles away. I suggested hiring a wedding planner for this reason. Some people found it to be reasonable, others did not. I’ve mostly decided against it because anyone that really knows me knows that I am completely anal retentive when it comes to planning and organizing. Keeping house and being calm…not so much.
These are the things I do know:
1) Our wedding colors are royal blue and white with yellow accents.
2) The wedding will be sometime in Spring of 2012. We’re working with the date of March 30th, which is a Friday night. This is because we are trying to get into Ellis Library on MU’s campus. I studied there a lot throughout college and always thought the north reading room was beautiful. This is posing more of a problem than I thought as we will have to pay for security guards and for furniture removal and replacement. The library is working on getting me a price. If its not going to be there, then probably we’ll move the wedding to DeSoto with the reception in Festus. Then the date gets all wacky. We can’t get married in the Catholic church (the only reason to go to DeSoto) before Easter (April 7th); April 14th is the date of the wedding of one of my mom’s coworkers who is my age. Sigh. I hope Ellis isn’t too expensive.
3) Our theme is going to be based on ‘Birdhouse in My Soul’ by They Might Be Giants. Its not going to be nightlights but birdhouses.
4) I know who my bridesmaids are and who I plan on having taking pictures while getting all pretty.
5) I really like the idea of using forsythias, yellow and white lilies and white roses.
6) I like color (blue) accents to my wedding dress options and my bridesmaids will probably be wearing short blue dresses. Sorry ladies.
7) I bought 30 small wooden birdhouses to be painted (blue, white and yellow) and then be used for table number holders.
8) I have 200 small light blue boxes for favors. But nothing to put in them and no idea exactly how many people Joe and I are inviting.
9) I plan on having the mules take us away from Ellis. Other options include a Crown Victoria of 1989 vintage.
I took a quiz in a bridal magazine where they had a bunch of pictures and you needed to pick up to twelve of them that spoke to you. I picked a zebra, a corgi, some vintage books, umbrellas, a white coo coo clock, lemons, a nest with blue eggs and a sewing machine. From that, you could determine which pictures you circled most of (C) and that would tell you what wedding style you had. Apparently, mine is called ‘garden vintage’. As Joe said, well its good to have a name for what I’m doing. I guess. From the article, I did gleam the idea of using milk bottles in part of the centerpiece. Joe didn’t seem as enthused so we might need a trial run this spring with some options and forsythia branches stolen from bushes that are surely somewhere in the neighborhood.
I’d really, really love if my peeps would come see me sometime this spring (March, April) to help me pick out a wedding dress. I’m probably going to stick with David’s Bridal for ease and cost. There is however this nagging feeling at the back of my head that tells me I should go elsewhere too. I don’t know. Oh there’s also the fact that I have to lose some weight. I’m pretty comfortable where I am right now, but wouldn’t 30 less pounds be even better? Or 40 less pounds? It would.
Maybe tomorrow, after finding nothing on TV and doing the dishes, I can sit in Joe’s bed and work on my wedding binder. Lots of cutting and pasting, which we all know is another one of my favorite things to do. Or maybe, I’ll just take a nap.
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