before openly researching for the weddening, i made a couple simple rules for myself to help keep the pre-engaged planning to a manageable level:
- no buying wedding magazines. i could browse through them to my heart’s content at the bookstore but they could not leave with me.
- definitely no looking at wedding dresses.
everything else was fair game. i could email venues to scope out prices to help build a budget and i could source ideas and prices for centerpieces, bouquets, invitations and even shoes. i could pretty much plan the whole thing right there. and it worked like a charm. until it didn’t.
it was easy to not buy any magazines since they tend to run on the more expensive side and you can always find similar ideas and pictures online for free. they were always a fun read though, well once you get through the gajillion or so ads for dresses. besides, i figured i got my money’s worth after flipping through it the one time and putting it back on the rack. now that says a lot doesn’t?
the dress thing was a bit harder. at first i was fine with just reading about other people’s dresses in blogs but suddenly i found myself clicking further into the links which eventually led to bookmarks. and just like that, i had broken the biggest rule of all.
though even that seems trivial when compared to the next rule i broke. yeah, i broke a rule that was even set, but really, it seemed more like a “duh” type of thing.
so here’s the story. while reading weddingbee a couple of years ago [yes, i have been reading for that long], i came across mrs. bell pepper’s post on ring holders and she showcased a ring orb that had since become uber popular around these parts, and by these parts i mean the wedding parts. because where else would this be relevant?
well isn’t it just fabulous? that’s what i thought and before anyone knew it, i had impulsively tracked down scarlett alley and minutes later i had made my first weddening purchase [which kind of makes this blog pre-engagement seem normal doesn't?]. i still think this was one of the best decisions i could have made, especially considering that they’ve been hard to come by in that tiffany blue color and copper [i’ve seen them in an equally pretty lavender color] since then.
i’ve tucked it safely in my closet and to be honest, i kind of forgot i had it until i was cleaning out my closet a couple of months back. sure it was a huge impulse buy and who knows if we’ll even use it at our wedding and never mind the fact that the boy doesn’t even know about it [well, until he reads this post that is – though remember, i forgot i bought the thing!] but it’s pretty. so very pretty.
hopefully we’ll be able to incorporate the orb into the wedding plans some way, even if it’s only for pictures of our rings. if not, then they’ll be pretty decoration for our home!