Bloggity Blog--More Wedding Tidbits

One late night in August of 2006 I went shopping at WalMart. My friend and I were renting our first house and we needed pretty much everything. As I was trolling the aisles, I ended up in the magazine section. Something possessed me to pick up a copy of The Knot. Maybe it was something on the cover, maybe it was the fact that I had just broken up with a guy I was thinking I'd someday marry. I don't know. But right then and there, standing in the aisle of WalMart, I decided I wanted to plan weddings.

I bought that copy of The Knot and I also bought a wire bound notebook of thick paper, good for pasting bits of magazine on both sides. That night I started my first wedding notebook. I decided on a Spring wedding with a sunshine yellow, Spring green and lavender color scheme. I imagined what I would want my own wedding to be like. I started collecting details from several years worth of bridal magazines.

One month later, I met my Mr... Coincidence? :)

Our wedding is two years away. For real. When I think about it, I am simultaneously relieved and bummed. There is only so much planning we can do right now due to working around three absolutely-cannot-have-a-wedding-without-them people in the Army with different deployment schedules. It's so frustrating to me.

But back to my wedding notebook. When I got engaged, I thought "Well, I have pretty much everything already planned". But as things progressed and I started to implement my already-labored-over plans, I realized that it just wasn't working. When I imagined that wedding, I was thinking about what I'd want. But I wasn't considering the groom. In my vision, there wasn't anyone to fill that role. So it was all about me, not about us. And then I found out my maid of honor would be deployed in March, our original month. So we decided to just wait until Mr. was out of the Army, that way we'd only have to worry about two deployment schedules, and we could plan a wedding for us.

I can't just be satisfied with waiting, though, so I immediately started imagining a Fall wedding. I was knee deep in color schemes and Halloween reception ideas. But, as I should've known would happen, something came up. Mr. and I have our hearts set on Meadow Lake Ranch as our venue. But we found out it'd be cheaper in August. So we're probably going with August. But again, who knows what will happen in the next two years?

So here I am, stuck in limbo. I want to blog more but I have nothing in regards to our wedding. So then I thought, why don't I blog about the other weddings I'm planning? My wedding notebooks (I've started another and am conceiving more) are filled with tidbits from tons of wedding magazines. I have been researching several wedding planning websites for years, scouring books on every related topic. Why waste all of that?

So, here we go. I'll be posting lots of other wedding inspirations and details. Look out for it :)