Wedding: The Beginning
When Mr and I got engaged in September 2010, we were instantly bombarded with questions from EVERYONE:
‘HAVE YOU SET A DATE!?’
‘HAVE YOU PICKED A RECEPTION VENUE?!’
‘ARE YOU GOING TO GET MARRIED IN A CHURCH?!’
‘HAVE YOU FOUND A DRESS?!’
‘HOW MANY BRIDESMAIDS ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE?!’
‘WHERE ARE YOU GOING FOR YOUR HONEMOON?!’
‘HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO YOUR HAIR?!’
‘ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE BOMBONIERE?!’
Ok. I am not one of those girls who has kept a shoebox filled with wedding pictures under her bed since the age of ten. So people asking me these questions one week after our engagement were most disappointed with my standard answers of ‘no’, ‘I don’t know’ and ‘what’s that?’.
Determined to discover exactly what ‘bomboniere’ were, I set about starting a collection of bridal magazines. It seemed that my friends, disappointed with my lack of wedding knowledge, decided that I needed a little help and also set about buying me magazines. The result? Information overload!
My advice to any brides-to-be? DO NOT read as many wedding magazines as I did. There will be two consequences:
1) You will become very overwhelmed by pages and pages of puffy dresses, stories of weddings with bridal parties of 25 and articles such as ’5000 Dos and Don’ts on Your Wedding Day’.
2) Your fiancé will freak out that you have become a wedding-obsessed nutbag. Which you have. But it is absolutely essential to hide the crazy. Until the wedding is over.
In the end the magazine that I found the least scary and the most helpful was this one:
This mini mag is excellent for wedding newbies.There is helpful information such as suggested timelines for planning, pages to organise your budget, questions to ask reception venues/celebrants/dressmakers etc, and there is minimal advertising. This is a good thing.
So a few weeks after we returned from Fiji, Mr and I got to work putting together this wedding shindig. Guided by our Weddings for Dummies magazine and the most urgently repeated questions ‘HAVE YOU SET A DATE?!’ and ‘HAVE YOU PICKED A RECEPTION VENUE?!’, we started planning.
The date? Early 2012.
The reception venue? Coming up in my next wedding post..
And as for bomboniere? Meh…… overrated. IMHO.
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True about the bonbonniere being over rated. My bestie did personalized wine glass charms which were good though.
Happy planning!
Oh that’s cute! Some BB is gorgeous, but most that I’ve seen is so tacky. And overpriced.