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May 22, 2007
Status
I meant to write about our gradual descent into wedding mania here, but the mania makes it hard to keep a blog up to date.
I'll stick to the highlights.
1. Wedding dresses are scary. The wedding industry is scary. In ads, brides in the most expensive gowns routinely look like they are miserable (think drugged, depressed, angry), and one designer includes a gratuitous naked man in all the photos. Or maybe the dresses come with naked men? Another dress has a "removable modesty piece" -- can't remember what that was, exactly. Wish I had time to write about all the ridiculousness.
2. We have a date: The easy-to-remember and rather close 09.08.07. We were hoping for a small, simple, fun wedding upstate -- you know, a simple dress, some good wine and decent food on a lawn somewhere near a lake, tipsy family, etc. Riiiight.
3. The wedding industry found us out. I was hoping to wear my Mom's dress (very simple, very 70s), but I somehow landed myself a brand new dress from the most commercial, ridiculous, Cinderella-style wedding emporium in the world (Kleinfeld's, for the uninitiated, which Mom and I were ostensibly just going to for kicks). The dress is vintage-looking, but new and not cheap and I'm still conflicted about that.
4. We are now in the land of tent rentals and Save-the-Dates and caterer meetings. I have this reminder on my Google homepage, that is counting down at an ungodly rate:
5. With the Save-the-Date, we had a brainstorm. We thought we'd do a vintage style travel postcard. We'd find something on the web, alter it, and impress our friends with our clever retro kitsch-iness. We never found quite the right graphic, though, and so a simple project has taken over a month and is just now starting to look like this:
No, I'm not sure who all the people are, but I think they're related. At this rate, we may get the invitation out before the event itself.
6. On theknot.com (which assumes at least a year of planning, naturally, and is really not a site I should be looking at), the majority of my "checklist" items have little overdue exclamation points next to them.
7. We love indiebride.com's message boards. Sane people!
8. We're trying to be eco-friendly about this. A book called "Eco-Chic Weddings" was just published and has been helpful, and I really meant to follow all the advice, but then I ran off and had an affair with Kleinfeld's, so who knows how things are going to turn out.
9. I seem to be in a state of constant anxiety, but I'm not entirely sure what the next steps are. If I had my way, everything would be like the STD (a wedding acronym that is actually used!) -- I would just wait around until the right solution presented itself, instead of settling for the first thing that comes to mind. Three months doesn't really allow for this sort of flexibility, though. At least the website is done, since building a website was a great way to procrastinate on the more important tasks, like figuring out how to feed people in the middle of nowhere.
Posted by csageday at May 22, 2007 01:36 AM
Comments
What a strange photo. I've heard of naked weddings, but not half-naked weddings.
Posted by: Francis at May 24, 2007 10:57 AM