Nine months.
take a chance. . .
Nine months since I caught on.
it's either time to stay or time to go. . .
Nine months since I asked her out.
what are you waiting for?
Nine months since I somehow choked out words.
how can you lose something if it's not actually yours?
Nine months of learning that you'll never learn to fly if you aren't first willing to risk falling.
no more "what if"s. . .
Nine months since she went from "a girl" to "my girl."
wait, did she just say what I thought she did?
Nine months of knowing how very real dreams can be.
- The Knight
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
in a blaze of time
It's hard to believe that it has been two months since our late night excursion to the vineyard. Time might as well have been an SR-71 Blackbird--too fast for its own good sometimes. We've been to 3 weddings together (and Nick went to one without me--in California) and gotten quite a bit of planning done for our own.
Of course, we'd been engaged less than a week when I found a dress I liked--but finding a venue was a sight harder.
Apparently 10-10-10 is such an uber cool date that most people are getting married on the 10th (Sunday) rather than the 9th (the much more traditional Saturday)--Nick and I weren't thinking about the 10th so much as the fact that Monday was Columbus Day, so many people would be able to travel on a federal holiday.
Most of the venues big enough for our wedding were already booked, and those that weren't were far too expensive (for your reference, most restaurants on Cape Cod can only seat 45-80 people maximum or they are only open through September). Facing the necessity of a small wedding and the reality of a large extended family has definitely not been a challenge I would want to repeat. However we were able to find a gorgeous spot for the ceremony, as well as a large (and stately) room for the reception. It aslo turns out that my mother can haggle (which I didn't know before).
With that hurdle cleared it's just logistics (parking, what parking?), design work (website: check), groomsmen clothes (mwhaha) and sundry other things...like the cake, ceremony, and pricing the local printers. Oh yeah, and the registries. Can't forget those.
~The Lady
Of course, we'd been engaged less than a week when I found a dress I liked--but finding a venue was a sight harder.
Apparently 10-10-10 is such an uber cool date that most people are getting married on the 10th (Sunday) rather than the 9th (the much more traditional Saturday)--Nick and I weren't thinking about the 10th so much as the fact that Monday was Columbus Day, so many people would be able to travel on a federal holiday.
Most of the venues big enough for our wedding were already booked, and those that weren't were far too expensive (for your reference, most restaurants on Cape Cod can only seat 45-80 people maximum or they are only open through September). Facing the necessity of a small wedding and the reality of a large extended family has definitely not been a challenge I would want to repeat. However we were able to find a gorgeous spot for the ceremony, as well as a large (and stately) room for the reception. It aslo turns out that my mother can haggle (which I didn't know before).
With that hurdle cleared it's just logistics (parking, what parking?), design work (website: check), groomsmen clothes (mwhaha) and sundry other things...like the cake, ceremony, and pricing the local printers. Oh yeah, and the registries. Can't forget those.
~The Lady
the concepts
Wedding websites as a concept can't possibly have been around all that long. Being creative souls, the website was one of the first things that Nick and I investigated--checking out one of the industry websites we were unimpressed. Very unimpressed. It was extremely....un-customize-able...and just another way for the wedding racket to prey on hapless brides who have been indoctrinated to believe they must spend tons of money on their frilly "special day." (Aside: It might be because I'm a writer, but "special day" is a cliched phrase that I've avoided with every single wedding card I've written this year.)
Considering the vitality of the blogosphere, and the over abundance of brides blogging about the wedding process (I've become the seasoned blog-hopper in the past 2 months) I've found it peculiar that there are very few really nice looking wedding websites out there. (And if you were faced with hiring a designer, it's little wonder. It's not worth it if you can't do it yourself, or have a friend do it for you). On the upside, this means I can feel original and creative because we thought of remodeling a blogspot into a wedding website (just like our friends did).
~The Lady
Considering the vitality of the blogosphere, and the over abundance of brides blogging about the wedding process (I've become the seasoned blog-hopper in the past 2 months) I've found it peculiar that there are very few really nice looking wedding websites out there. (And if you were faced with hiring a designer, it's little wonder. It's not worth it if you can't do it yourself, or have a friend do it for you). On the upside, this means I can feel original and creative because we thought of remodeling a blogspot into a wedding website (just like our friends did).
~The Lady
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