Almsot every day, someone asks about my wedding plans. It’s the curse of being the bride. Will isn’t walking around with the ring and his friends aren’t falling over themselves at the idea of picking out a location. Nope. All of that is reserved for me.
I’m not really big into the bride thing. I definitely want a wedding, complete with the dress, flowers, music and all the bells and whistles. But I feel like other girls already had their dream day picked out before they even met the guy and, for me, I never made it past putting the pillow case over my head and pretending to walk down the aisle a couple of times as a six-year-old. That seemed like a good thing in my book until I got engaged and all of a sudden I realize that those girls thumbing through Bride Magazine weren’t vapid, wedding-obsessed pre-teens but, rather, girls who understood what an undertaking it was going to be and understood the value of starting early! Starting the planning process after you’re engaged is starting behind.
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I stumbled through some ideas at first. A friend of mine was also in the just-getting-engaged boat and we read the magazines, discussed ideas and even tried on a some dresses together. She had the bridge gene and I was happy to feed off her enthusiasm. But then we started spending less time together and my wedding planning became less and less.
In June, it will be a year since I got engaged and I feel like I have nothing to show for it. Because we’re not getting married until at least 2013, it’s not the end of the world but I feel like we should at least have some basic things picked out.
And I did. Until I discovered Pintrest. The first day I had access, I spent hours looking at all the wedding options. All of a sudden my half-baked plan of a formal, Old Hollywood evening was replaced with a quaint farm country afternoon, complete with lemonade out of Mason jars and cowboy boots on my bridesmaids. But wait! What about a pink and yellow spring wedding? Or a DIY event with a homemade wedding dress?
So many wonderful options. What do you mean I can only have one?
Today alone, I’ve added five new things to the “must have” list.
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Some days the inspirations go together better than other days. Since I don’t live near my family, I often feel kind of alone in the planning process with no one to talk out the different ideas with. Who knows what the big day will actually look like.
Any one else out there have wedding information overload? How did you decide what to prioritize?