Let me tell you, ladies, it was the smartest thing we’ve done yet. Totally worth the money and piece of mind if you find the right planner. We also gave ourselves a year and a half until the big day. It seemed like a long time, but again, we know ourselves well enough to be realistic about the time it would take to plan, even with the help of a professional. Plus, we’ve never been stressed thinking we were running out of time.
It’s only five months now until the big day. Am I living in Bridezilla’s world of stress and regret? Not in the slightest. We started thinking of our wedding as the best party we’ll ever throw, and it became fun to plan. Because we’re not religious, a friend is marrying us. We kept the wedding small, with fifty people invited to attend. We’re having it at a destination, so it will be more like a holiday. We stopped looking for ideas in bridal magazines, and started going with our gut, even if it had never been done at a wedding before. We created a blog to inform our guests of our plans as they developed, and have posted FAQs and links to the destination of our wedding. We made a priorities list of what we were willing to spend money on. We let our personalities and shared interests guide us in every decision we’ve made, and we haven’t once compromised those principles.
So maybe I’m not the Anti-Bride, maybe I’ve create a new category: The Alterna-Bride.
Following are some Web sites to help you create the alterna-wedding that you’ve never dreamed of:
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