Beginnings of a wedding blog
“You need to start a wedding blog.”
This came out of my fiancé’s mouth last week.
I need to what?! There are 4 weeks left until “the big day” and I still need to meet with the event co-coordinator at the reception site, meet with the minister to discuss the outline of the ceremony, make the wedding favors, meet with the florist, find and order the wedding rings, arrange the seating, pick the music for the ceremony, not to mention answer innumerable questions about minute details that I had no idea even existed. I am not sure where on earth this man thought I could find time to cram anything into my already packed schedule that was not VITAL to the major event that was in our not too distant future. I told him he was nuts.
Imagine his surprise when I told him that I thought he was right… I should write a wedding blog. I am not sure if he was more surprised that I was taking on a blog or that I admitted he was right. Either way, he kindly got me started on my first sojourn into cyberwriting and here we are.
I decided to write this blog because ever since the ring hit my finger, my life has been consumed with wedding planning: bridal magazines, bridal fairs (which led to tons of bridal spam - more on that later), bridal books, wedding websites, wedding TV shows and totally non-wedding related: more than a few not so subtle hints from my mother that she is ready for another grandchild and she is requesting a girl. Whoa Mom, let’s get the wedding over with first, okay?
My parents generously offered to for the wedding, up to a certain amount. I told them that there was NO way I was going to spend up to their budget. NO WAY. After all, I was an accountant. If I could do anything well, it was manage expenses and cash flow to meet a budget. This would be a piece of cake! Then, I started pricing things. GASP! It soon became apparent that what I thought a wedding should cost and what a wedding would actually cost were two radically different things. I was HORRIFIED at the prices. I soon figured out that it was going to take all of my budgeting and cost cutting skills to keep this wedding under control . And thus the quest to have a wedding that I could feel good about (read: not feel ripped-off) began.
My goal is to share with you what I have done and learned thus far, and hopefully keep you updated on my trials and tribunes up to “W” day – which as of today, is officially 4 weeks and 1 day away.
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