1. My wedding doesn’t have a theme. Does it need a theme? I googled “wedding theme” for ideas and came across Tacky Weddings. It is exactly what you might think. Heinously tacky wedding photos and videos. And while I was wasting time on Tacky Weddings, I came across The Lovely Bride, which appears to be your one-stop-shop for quasi-orthopedic wedding shoes which almost guarantee a sprained ankle by time the DJ calls it a night. For $140. Really?
2. Saving up your vacation hours from work for a 2 week honeymoon is an overwhelming exercise in delayed gratification. This girl could use a day off, for sure.
3. A friend who happens to have 4 names (First name, Middle name, Maiden name, Married name) advised HIGHLY AGAINST having 4 names. My middle name happens to be my Mom’s family name. My last name is, of course, my Dad’s family name. Having to decide whether to keep my middle name or my to-be-maiden name is something I am struggling to decide. It would be easier if I could just smoosh them all together and then I would be Chase Moncarleist. Or Chase Monleistberry. Or Chase Carleistydoro. Leistberrydoro. Carmonleisterry. Hmm.
4. I want our wedding vows to include the words ’til death do we party. No?
5. Your fiancé probably does not enjoy being interrupted in the middle of the Bulls game for you to hold up your laptop for him to see the adorable/creative/cute/amazing thing for the wedding you just found on Pinterest. Assuming your fiancé is like mine.
6. Speaking of Pinterest, I was looking back over my wedding pinboard and realized one of the wedding gowns I pinned many months ago is actually very, very, very similar to the dress I selected. Totally coincidental.
7. I’m a little bummed that the Nationals at Orioles game that is happening on my wedding day is not a day game. I would have totally gone to the game in the afternoon before the wedding. (The wedding is late in the day.) And I probably ended up with a bad sunburn. Like this picture from Jeff’s cousin’s wedding in 2008 where we roasted in the sun at the Cubs game the day before. Scorched.
Speaking of which, I made this sign for that game. I was very proud of my cleverness.
The last T is silent.
8. There are some really cute bridesmaid dresses out there these days. Is it wrong to buy one for myself? Tell me this isn’t an adorable dress. Tell me, couldn’t you TOTALLY wear that again!? Psst. Buy it here if you like.
9. In researching stylists to do hair and makeup for the big day, I had the brainstorm idea that there should be service where a hairdresser comes to your house in the morning before work and blow dries your hair for you. I would do that more often than would be an advisable frequency.
10. My approach to my wedding is perfectly summed up in this passage from A Homemade Life.
When people would wish us well, they would often say, “Oh, I just know your wedding day is going to be PERFECT! It’s going to be BLISS! It’s going to be the BEST day of your life!” Brandon and I would always giggle about that, even though the gesture was very nice. For one thing, there’s the word bliss which makes my toes curl. It reminds me of diamond company commercials and bath beads. But even more than that, if the best day of our lives is our wedding day, we thought, what the hell comes afterward? We would have a lot of so-s0 years to look forward to. We wanted to have a beautiful wedding, but it didn’t need to be utter perfection. It needed to celebrate what we bring to each other in the truest way possible, and with some good food and dancing. But it didn’t need to be the best day ever. In fact, we sincerely hoped that, in the long-term scheme of things, it wouldn’t be.
Many better days to look forward to, indeed.
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