Aspirations

Now that I've embarked upon this wedding blogging endeavor, I should clarify my objectives and what I hope to achieve for all 18 readers I hope to have. That's a bit academic, isn't it? Sorry not sorry.

Goals:
1. Share my planning with my friends and family near and far, especially my sister, mother and future mother-in-law, who don't really get to be as hands-on as a family living in the same city (or even state).
2. Inspire at least one person to do something outside of the box. My #1 super favorite inspiration site is A Practical Wedding, and they refer to "the box" as the Wedding Industrial Complex. The WIC is easy to both hate (why is sh!t so expensive?!) and love (hello, TLC Friday Brideday).
3. Have a running monologue to remind me of this exhilarating process on our 1st, 5th, 10th,  50th, and-beyond wedding anniversaries.

Topics:
1. Hard decisions, aka the expensive stuff. This includes our process for choosing a venue/catering, apparel, photographers, officiant, musician, etc.
2. Quandaries belonging to the modern bride. Do you have to get married in the bride's hometown? Should I change my name, and if so, how? Which traditions are important to us as a couple, and which do we throw to the wind? Are we the rudest people ever for sending e-mail invitations or having our wedding on a Sunday?
3. I'm gonna make some stuff, and if it looks good I'll show you how too. Plus, how we personally navigated when DIY is necessary and when it wasn't feasible for us.

For my web programmer/designer friends, my apologies. I do not plan to edit the code of this blog template. It will probably never be beautiful, slick, or modern, but I do hope it is informative for other brides or grooms planning their wedding!

I can't wait to get started and I hope you'll follow along!