I love it! I’ve been waiting to get my hands on my own wedding some day and plan it to death. But here’s what I think: If you have even a hint of an idea of how you’d like your wedding manifested, wouldn’t it be smart to start planning bits and pieces here and there way before you even get engaged? The idea is to spread the “planning” over a few years rather than jam it all into one, so that you’re never full blown planning and therefore, never full blown stressed, because you’re doing this little by little without time constraint pressures. Do it at a snail’s pace and it wouldn’t matter. You’re not in “planning” mode, you’ve just conditioned yourself to make note of things in your everyday life that may work for your dream wedding down the road. If you know what you want and these desires have lingered in your heart and soul since forever, then these desires won’t change all that much over time and your plans will remain relevant year after year. Put your thoughts and ideas in a scrapbook. Jot things down as you come across them. When you’re out for dinner somewhere and take a liking to the colour of the tablecloth, cut off a piece and paste it onto your scrapbook. When you’re shopping and you happen to see a dress in the windows that tickle your fancy to no end, take a photo and slap it onto your scrapbook. If upon leisurely browsing, you run into a photographer’s stream on Flickr whose style is your style and captures love the way you want yours captured, jot him/her down in your scrapbook. All of that spread over many years so that when you are engaged, the research is done, the foundation is laid, and you’re ready to execute (although execution is always the hardest part). But this makes total sense to me! Call me crazy but I’m going to stop by Michaels Arts & Crafts to pick up a scrapbook.
Skipped a photo yesterday because I had as little as thirty minutes to spend in my house, rushing to get to a friend’s wedding after work. The wedding was heartfelt and beautiful. This is a photo of some of the girls and I.
