My Wedding Blog
Is this a good idea? I’m not sure.
Will I continue it longer than this week? Probably not.
Is it worth a try? I really think so.
I’m getting married in June. We are getting married in June. I am very excited about all of it. To be honest, it is very different planning a wedding the second time around and in many ways a lot more fun.
At Edisto this past summer, patiently waiting for the upcoming proposal.
We are spending our own money, with generous gifts from our parents. In some ways, that is a lot less fun. But it other ways, it is a lot more freeing. We are doing this wedding on the thinnest of thinnest shoe string budgets. And in many ways, that has been pretty fun.
All of the decisions are my decisions. Mine and Jonathans, but sweetly I think he has given me the final say. Again, maybe more stressful, but a lot more fun.
I know who I am, I know what I like and I know what I want. When I got married the first time was very, very fresh out of college. I have no regrets about any of that, but my brain hadn’t fully formed and I didn’t even know it! haha. So this time I feel like I really know myself and know how I want the whole experience to be.
We could have eloped. We could have had a very small ceremony with just the minister and our four kids. We didn’t need to have a wedding because we both have already experienced a girl in a white dress with a boy waiting at the end of the aisle. But we want to have a wedding. We want to celebrate with our friends and family. It is fun doing things that we want to do, not have to do.
We can’t afford to invite everyone we know to the wedding. We wish we could, but unfortunately we can’t. But we are inviting more than 50 and to me that feels very indulgent. It feels divine and over-the-top. It feels extra and I’m not worthy of it. And that seems fun.
And lastly, per this blog, I am loving all of the little details. To be truthful, I would have gotten married within a month. But to also be truthful, I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy each of the little details that I am able to piece together because we have time. And I am very grateful for all of the details and the ability to indulge myself in them.
So I decided to pull of the details into one place to A) be able to remember them all and B) practice my photography skills. Every year I vow to photograph every day and it never seems to happen. This blog is an attempt to push myself towards many goals. I hope that at the end of this process I have a beautiful wedding, but also that I have honed my skills even more for my clients. That seems very fun to me too.