i was talking to the boy one night about random things as we usually do when he asked me if my friend from college had set a date yet for his wedding.
i told him how their planning had grown “stagnant” and he couldn’t believe how hard planning a wedding could be. he made it seem so simple: pick a date, who to invite, location, select invitations and, there, you have a wedding.
but it’s harder to plan a wedding. besides, not everyone has the time during the day to just sit and cull ideas together like i apparently manage to do. and some people don’t have the obsessive planning trait that i have. i like to call those people “normals.”
there are a lot of little things that go into a wedding. you have negotiate the guest list issue with two sets of parents and all of their “friends” and suddenly an intimate wedding with 100 of your nearest and dearest has exploded into an “event” of nearly 300 people, most of which you don’t know. then there’s the deceptively simple act of picking a date. april 25th won’t work because your great-aunt agnes’ gout flares up in april and she wants really badly to be at the wedding and it’d be rude to exclude her so just push it back to may 16th. except may doesn’t work for your cousin, who’s also a bridesmaid, because she has finals and is graduating from college that month, so why not push it up to march 28th? but your cousin’s cousin is getting married in march and why would you want to “steal another couple’s thunder?” so let’s try to push it back to august 15th. perfect except august 15th totally isn’t going to work because its bad luck.
and that’s before you factor in a venue, invitations and the rest of the guest list. oh, and all those other details that shape this oh so special day.
this is one of the reasons i love the internet. it makes researching SO MUCH FUNNER.
i know funner isn’t a word but bear with me. i literally just saw this on ten thousand only and now the gears are working.
courtesy tto via greeting arts
i wouldn’t have even THOUGHT to sew glassine bags but you know it looks perfect.
sometimes i am so really glad we’re not planning our wedding for real because if we were, i would have been so screwed.
you know how you pick something out and think, “this is it. this is the greatest thing ever!” and you’re happy with it and go about life as normal until you see something else that makes you take back everything you said about that other thing? that’s what happened to me while i was reading $10,000 wedding [tto for those in the know] and she showcased a new invitation designer, kimi. kimi was previously featured because she turned an ordinary wedding dress from target into a one of a kind work of art. seriously.
she’s a designer by trade and thanks to requests from friends, family and friends of friends and family, she’s launched her own invitation design company, printable press.
she’s singlehandedly made me rethink how i want our invitations to look. back to the drawing board i go.