My Wedding

Finally! A blog topic I can relate to! Ha, kidding (sort-of). While I feel like I know how my future wedding is going to go, it's really hard to say that I won't change my mind between now and then. In high school we did a project where you had to pick out everything for the wedding: colors, dresses, flowers, location, etc. It's hard to think back about what was important to me then and think that I would EVER do my wedding like that. So it's hard to say that what I like now, is something I'll like when the time is right to get married. I'll be brutally honest when I say that somedays I'm ready to get married, and somedays I'm not quite sure. It has nothing to do with Josh or that I'm not ready to be with him - it's just, when is the timing ever right for a wedding? I just think about all the money that goes into a wedding, all the planning, and the preperation. And then I think about all the things that we'd like to have within the next five years (a new truck for Josh, new stove and microwave, new windows for the house, bathroom renovations, bedroom renovations, I want to get my masters, etc.) not to mention the daily grind of paying bills and things, and to add on top of that rings and a wedding? While I know that our families would be more than generous in helping us out, it just seems like a lot of work. Not saying I don't EVER want to marry Josh (in fact, I'd be quite thrilled if he asked tomorrow and I'd throw my inhabitions out the door and start planning, reguardless of what my bank account says), but it seems like it will never happen. I also know that I'm turning 24 in April, and while that isn't old, I definitely don't want to be someone who gets married and then 9 months later has a kid. I'd like to be married for a few years, which puts a damper on my having-both-my-kids-before-I'm-thirty mentality...which, the more I think about it, the more it doesn't bother me. I'd still like to have at least one child by 28, it's slowly just becoming a number I was selfishly fixated on because I figured my body was still young enough at that age to bounce back. But I suppose you're never really ready, you just have to have faith and jump in head first. I don't know...but I suppose since it is the blog request, I'll fulfill it and fill everyone in on my future wedding.

I'd like to have my wedding in the fall, (If Josh were to ask in the next 4-5 months) I think it would be really neat to have a wedding on 9-10-11 of next year. How could you forget that anniversary date?! So I suppose my colors would be a mixture of fall colors - the auburns, oranges, yellows, browns, etc. I'm not sure what I'd have my bridesmaids wear, but I know that I want a strapless wedding dress. I'm not sure the style - I suppose when the time comes I'll need to try on 35468715 million styles, maybe something like these ones - kind of simple, with a touch of different:


I try to think that I'd have a pretty formal wedding...I'd like it if it were possible that Josh and I couldn't see each other before the wedding. I know this becomes a hassle when you have to take pictures after and you have guests waiting - but I suppose if we kept it as a small ceremony with only close friends and family, they wouldn't mind having a little bit of down time between the wedding and the reception. (Like finding a near-by bar to attend?) Or I'd always visioned playing some sort of slide show of our lives while we took some pictures after the wedding. I don't know, we'll see when the time comes.

I really don't have anything set in stone picked out. No flowers. No shoes. No set way of how I want the wedding to go. I do know though that I'd like to have my bridesmaids and groomsmen walk down to the melody of Tesla's "Love Song" and then I'd walk down in Canon D. Otherwise...I'm definitely a visual person, and have to see something before I can decide on it. So I suppose I don't have much picked out yet. Of course I have a running lists of bridesmaids to ask and what not, but otherwise, I'm pretty open to suggestion. I'm lucky that I have so many creative people in my life (like Laura!) who had amazing weddings and I know I could ask plenty of questions to them. I do know though that I would L.O.V.E. a ring like this:

That's an emerald cut diamond with baguettes on the side. I just LOVE the look of the emerald cut - it's different and not something you see everyday. I told Josh once that I wouldn't accept anything else, but I suppose the older I get the less picky I'll be! Ha!

So while this wasn't a very informative blog wedding wise, it was fun to look up all the different dresses and things on google! :)