Once upon a time, a young bride decided she would only walk down the aisle to Pachebel’s Canon in D played by a string quartet. Twas I, in my youth and naivete. Once we had our venue and caterer nailed down, I started to look at knocking out some other big vendors. I realized that our wedding…
Since Mac was deployed while I planned back here, we decided to make our major decisions the two weeks he had for leave. This time frame waffled and changed, but he finally came home at the end of July. Yes, he left the first week of December and came back the last week of July….
Or, how we booked our wedding photographer before meeting them. The majority of my sources for wedding planning came by searching [vendor] in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Websites like The Knot and Weddingbee helped me by giving me an idea of what was available in our area and an assortment of reviews. One day, I decided…
Save the dates. STDs. What bride doesn’t giggle at that immature abbreviation? As I worked through our wedding planning tasks, I decided to send out save the dates. I really wanted Virginia Tech save the dates but couldn’t find anything (until too late). So I shifted gears to look for a maroon and orange color…
The majority of my wedding planning searches involved the words “maroon and orange.” I was on the hunt for a Virginia Tech wedding invitation. A month or two after our engagement, I came across these beauties. Even though I loved the colors against the brown background, I didn’t love the price. It seemed a bit…
And we’re going to get married. Yes, you read that correctly. Mac and I are not having a church wedding ceremony. Why? It’s a bit of a religious firecracker. Mac was raised rather without an organized faith. His father is Jewish, his mother is Catholic, and neither is particularly observant. Mac describes himself as a…