Let me start out this blog by
saying I never used to be wedding obsessed. I never dreamed about my wedding
day when I was a kid, I rarely made my Barbies marry Ken (I was too preoccupied
letting them drive the convertible to the mall), and I never thought about what
my wedding dress would look like until very recently. Now let me follow that up
with…an entire blog about my wedding planning process.
Photo from Glamour.com
If I had made my Barbies marry Ken, it definitely wouldn't have been as fabulous as their real wedding album from Beatrice de Guigne.
When I started dating C I was still
pretty new to the whole dating thing. I was 18, a freshman in college, and just
excited that a boy was talking to me. Marriage never crossed my mind. And
weddings? Forget about it.
Personal Photo
This is the first photo we ever took "as a couple."
About 6 months into our
relationship, marriage did cross my mind. It crossed both of our minds, in
fact, but since we were still teenagers with 3 years of college left and we’d
only been dating for a semester and change, we obviously weren’t about to start
wedding planning. No, not even me.
After we’d been together for a few
years and I started picturing our life together more and more, the realization
that I’d one day have a wedding dawned on me. I surreptitiously googled
“weddings” one day at work, hoping to maybe see a few pictures and read a
little bit that would satiate me until my wedding would roll around.
In case you're curious, here's what came up when I Googled it a minute ago. I'm guessing it looked much different 2 years ago. In fact, these results might be skewed by my browser's cookies. I will never understand the mystery that is Google.
This was right around the time that
I started reading blogs regulary and discovered Google Reader. When Google
directed me to Weddingbee, I was hooked. I clicked the RSS icon and my life
since has been filled with visions of poofy white dresses, multi-tiered cakes,
and Martha Stewart poms.
So why the fascination with
weddings? For me it would have to be partly because of the increasing
popularity of DIY projects and crafts at weddings. I’ve always been a crafty
person, and I’m now officially a craft editor/blogger (the ol’ day job), so
weddings were the next logical obsession for me. But I think the main reason I
started following wedding blogs was that I knew I was with the man who would
one day be my husband (and incidentally, my groom). For me, putting a face on
the so often faceless groom of childhood wedding fantasies was enough to make
me wedding obsessed.
Personal photo
At the risk of sounding frivolous,
petty, and overly girly, I present to you an entire blog about my wedding
planning journey: the superfluous DIY projects, the heartfelt moments, and the
bridezilla meltdowns (yeah right, I’m perfect!).
Did you plan your wedding before
you were engaged? What made you excited about weddings?
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