I've always got these really great ambitions to write about all the little thoughts that pop into my head on a daily basis, but my life seems to be moving at a faster pace than I. Here it is, another week later before I've even made it to posting again. There are moments when six months and a handful of days seems like all the time in the world…and others when I start to get that panicky feeling about whether or not we'll pull off this wonderland of a wedding we've dreamed up before the end of the millennium. Thankfully, DG is a mastermind when it comes to execution of…well, just about anything. I love that I can just do the conceptual thing and let him figure out how to make it happen. It takes so much pressure off of me, and I can't explain what a relief it is to have his help and insight and expertise in this endeavor. It makes my heart warm.
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Some really great things have happened on the wedding front while I've been silent. I bought my dress…which is precisely opposite what I thought I'd end up choosing, but it is so very, very me, and I couldn't be more excited about it. (Now it's time to get down to the business of looking as good in it as possible, but that's another topic for another day.) We have also potentially chosen a church for our ceremony, but being non-members of the congregation, we are unable to reserve it prior to six months before our wedding date. Thus, we will not have that nailed down until November 1
st, but that date is quickly approaching. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, we'll have that item checked off the list very shortly.
What I'm most excited about at this moment in time is branding our wedding. That may be the left side of my brain talking there, but basically, I'm a sucker for a theme. And I intend to carry our lock and key theme all the way through the wedding. DG and I are meeting with a very talented friend this evening to discuss all of the graphic design elements of the theme. (Can I just say we are so fortunate to know and love so many talented and generous people?? Our wedding is going to be one giant collaboration of brilliance.) First up, save the dates. We're planning to have our engagement photos taken either this weekend or next, so as soon as they're finished, we plan to get our save the dates out to family and friends far and wide.
As a semi-faithful blog follower, I am constantly looking for inspiration and ideas. Thanks to my dear friend, Google Reader, there is usually a surplus of fabulous DIY ideas. I had been really uninspired with a lot of save the date ideas I'd seen, simply because they to ultimately end up in the trash…which just seems like a waste. I'd toyed with the idea of sending them completely electronically when I stumbled upon
this from Mo, of Elizabeth Anne Designs. DG and I are fairly tech savvy, as are most all of our friends and at least some of our family. Virtual save the dates seemed like the perfect fit, especially considering all the beautiful functionality offered by
MailChimp, which is the FREE email marketing service Mo used. Excellent news for this spreadsheet addict. Sign me up.
The more we talked about it, the more DG and I got excited about thinking outside the box. Unconventional has become yet another theme in our wedding planning. Keep people guessing. Don't conform to narrow-minded ideas of how all this should go. That's pretty much where we live. Thus! We fell in love with the idea of going completely digital. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, digital save the dates, digital invites, digital everything. It's good for the environment, it's good for my budget, and it has the potential to be ridiculously cool. I can't wait to see how it all comes together. We'll be able to relay so much more information to our guests, and it just feels like 'us'. We've heard some skeptical comments, but it's our wedding and we can do what we want. Plus, I am confident that if we do it right, people will love it.
I'll leave you with some inspiration for our monogram…
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