blog schmog

I have always said I would never have a blog. There's something about writing an online journal of yourself and your daily experiences (and then posting photos of these daily experiences) that strike me as being self-absorbed and really fucking weird (sorry to all my friends that have blogs...I'm not counting you loves in this silly judging of mine). I still think that, but alas, I'm now one of them. Judge away. I sure do. Ha!

The reason I wanted to do this is because I'm tired of hearing about the exorbitant cost of weddings, and also because I'm pretty anti-wedding and I'm tired of looking online and seeing all of the "you've got to have thisthisthis and this". I am getting married this coming July, and we're having a pretty big wedding...but it's going to be what we want, and it's certainly not going to cost a lot of money. I wanted to write about the experiences of creating this wedding on a budget. I want to show all projects we do and the actual cost of them, and of course...the final day and how it all came together (which, good god, it better look amazing otherwise the wedding industry wins).

I also want to make this wedding "green". I know, I rolled my eyes at that one too. But for real. I grew up in a family that really loves this earth, and I'm grateful every day for that. I love this place. I don't want to get partnered up at Earth's expense. So I'm going to also document the ways in which we've kept that in mind. It's something that really, really matters to me. Although it's now a trend to be green (a good trend, at that...although of course the downside in this case is that trends come and go) I'm not doing this to be a part of that trend. I'm doing this because I grew up with parents that taught me the importance of leaving a teeny tiny footprint behind us, and weddings contribute a HUGE amount of waste to this already waste-filled earth. I did not want to be a part of that. I've lived with the mentality of Environment First my entire life, and the celebration of this awesome moment in my life will be no different. I really want to show how that can be done, so I'm going to document that as well.

So far, we've spent a total of 13.50. We debated doing Save The Dates for awhile, but ultimately decided to go for it as we are two people that forget shit all.the.time. We aren't planners, and we are constantly annoying friends for making plans and skipping out on them because we just plain forgot. The Save The Dates we got from all of the weddings we've attended have actually been pretty helpful for us, so we decided that for that reason alone we'd make them too. They certainly are not necessary, but it's a nice little reminder for people like us. So that 13.50 is the cost of the Save The Dates. We bought recycled paper at a local paper store and designed them up ourselves. The guest list remains a pain in the ass, but after a couple of Saturday nights and an equal amount of red wine bottles, we've got our little reminders done, guest list be damned.

We wanted them to be postcards so we could save on paper. Here they are:

So there you have it. The reason for the blog. The total cost so far. And the outcome. Hopefully this isn't self-absorbed and really fucking weird.