Our wedding will look a little different than this. My boyfriend and I got engaged February 12, 2010. After the initial euphoria wore off, we looked at each other and said "Soooo ... I guess we have to plan a wedding now?" With the raised inflection at the end and everything.
It took us about two-point-five seconds to realize that the Typical Wedding in a hotel ballroom with a $125 per plate dinner was not our scene. Also not right for us was the rustic, DIY-chic, wedding-blog-ready, ladyboner-inducing sort of wedding. I love doing crafts and DIY projects in my non-wedding life, but I just couldn't imagine hand-embroidering 100 invitations that would be immediately thrown away, or spending thousands of hours scouring etsy for the perfect handmade cake topper that no one would notice or care about besides me. And I certainly wasn't going to pay someone else thousands of dollars to make my wedding look like I had Done It all mYself. That's the opposite of the point!
So that left us in a weird No-Man's Land of wedding prep. We wanted to plan a celebration for ourselves and our friends that a) wouldn't leave us in debt, b) wouldn't be more about the aesthetic details than about getting married and having fun with those we love the most, and c) would still be memorable for us and our guests.
I wanted to document this experience because I don't see a lot of weddings like the one we're planning out there in blogland and because I expect it to be mildly interesting to at least one or two other people out there. One or two people, I hope you enjoy it.
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