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Name and/or LJ userID: Heather
Wedding Date: September 12, 2009
Bride/Groom/Other (please specify): Bride, the groom is Josh
Age: 22, he's 24
City/State/Country you live in: Well, Holderness NH for the summer, but Kingston NH in the fall before the wedding.
City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): Ceremony in Newburyport, MA, reception in Newton, NH
Your song/First Dance song: Not sure if we're going to do a first dance or not, but I love "You Are the Best Thing" by Ray LaMontagne
Wedding Colors: None
Formality: Casual
Theme (if you have one): Getting married?
Number of guests: 115
How'd you meet your fiance?: We met through an ex of mine in HS. After the ex and I broke up, Josh and I started hanging out more and more and ended up getting together about a half a year later. The ex (of course) was not happy, but we were and things are still great!
How long have you been together?: Somewhere over 3 years
Do you have a personal wedding website?: Yup, www.jandhtietheknot.com
Have you read the community rules before posting this survey?: Yup
Anything else you'd like to tell us?:
Josh and I got engaged the day after Christmas and didn't start actually planning until I graduated school in May. We're not having a typical fancy wedding because 1) we didn't want to waste a lot of money on one day (or make our parents waste it) and 2) we're not really the fancy big wedding type of people. Instead we're having a short ceremony at Maudslay State Park in Newburyport MA (I think I've seen someone else on here who is getting married there as well?) and then a backyard reception at my parent's house. Our parent's are mostly paying for it, though we're trying to keep the spending under $3,000, and with what we have planned I think that we'll be able to accomplish that. Our wedding is more of a family gathering for us and we're looking to spend the day with people we love and not worry about the little things.
Luckily both sets of parents are very supportive in all that we're doing. My FMIL is loving all of our ideas, especially since her wedding to FFIL didn't end up being what she wanted at all. My mother is a little more traditional and questions some of our ideas though she is obviously not forcing her own opinions of what we should do on us. For instance, we aren't having cake but instead are having wedding pies. When I told her this idea, she said "But what are you going to cut?? You have to at least get a cake for you guys to cut!" to which I told her, no we do not need to have cake and no we do not need to cut anything.
I'm not getting a traditional wedding dress. I didn't feel like dealing with the whole trying on a ton of dresses things cos I don't like trying things on to begin with, especially in front of other people. Nor did I want to spend the money, wait for the dress to come in and then spend the money on alterations. SO I've been looking for more casual evening dresses which has sort of proved difficult but Nordstrom is a great website. I found this BCBG dress a couple of months ago and ordered it cos I got a superb deal on it. It fits me perfectly, which shocked me since I was afraid their biggest size (a 12!) wouldn't fit me.
However, I'm not crazy about it so I continued looking. I just ordered this blue ABS dress the other day and am waiting for it to come in to try. I love the idea of a light blue or light green dress!
And here's a picture of my inspiration thus far.
So that's what I have thus far! I had a thought today too about the ceremony and the bridal party. We are having a couple of family/friends on each side, however I feel its kind of weird to have them standing up the whole time. Has anyone ever had their bridal party walk down the aisle and then maybe take seats on each side? I think I would prolly hate having to stand during a whole ceremony. I duno it was just something I was wondering if maybe anyone else had done?
Thanks for reading!
Wedding Date: September 12, 2009
Bride/Groom/Other (please specify): Bride, the groom is Josh
Age: 22, he's 24
City/State/Country you live in: Well, Holderness NH for the summer, but Kingston NH in the fall before the wedding.
City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): Ceremony in Newburyport, MA, reception in Newton, NH
Your song/First Dance song: Not sure if we're going to do a first dance or not, but I love "You Are the Best Thing" by Ray LaMontagne
Wedding Colors: None
Formality: Casual
Theme (if you have one): Getting married?
Number of guests: 115
How'd you meet your fiance?: We met through an ex of mine in HS. After the ex and I broke up, Josh and I started hanging out more and more and ended up getting together about a half a year later. The ex (of course) was not happy, but we were and things are still great!
How long have you been together?: Somewhere over 3 years
Do you have a personal wedding website?: Yup, www.jandhtietheknot.com
Have you read the community rules before posting this survey?: Yup
Anything else you'd like to tell us?:
Josh and I got engaged the day after Christmas and didn't start actually planning until I graduated school in May. We're not having a typical fancy wedding because 1) we didn't want to waste a lot of money on one day (or make our parents waste it) and 2) we're not really the fancy big wedding type of people. Instead we're having a short ceremony at Maudslay State Park in Newburyport MA (I think I've seen someone else on here who is getting married there as well?) and then a backyard reception at my parent's house. Our parent's are mostly paying for it, though we're trying to keep the spending under $3,000, and with what we have planned I think that we'll be able to accomplish that. Our wedding is more of a family gathering for us and we're looking to spend the day with people we love and not worry about the little things.
Luckily both sets of parents are very supportive in all that we're doing. My FMIL is loving all of our ideas, especially since her wedding to FFIL didn't end up being what she wanted at all. My mother is a little more traditional and questions some of our ideas though she is obviously not forcing her own opinions of what we should do on us. For instance, we aren't having cake but instead are having wedding pies. When I told her this idea, she said "But what are you going to cut?? You have to at least get a cake for you guys to cut!" to which I told her, no we do not need to have cake and no we do not need to cut anything.
I'm not getting a traditional wedding dress. I didn't feel like dealing with the whole trying on a ton of dresses things cos I don't like trying things on to begin with, especially in front of other people. Nor did I want to spend the money, wait for the dress to come in and then spend the money on alterations. SO I've been looking for more casual evening dresses which has sort of proved difficult but Nordstrom is a great website. I found this BCBG dress a couple of months ago and ordered it cos I got a superb deal on it. It fits me perfectly, which shocked me since I was afraid their biggest size (a 12!) wouldn't fit me.
However, I'm not crazy about it so I continued looking. I just ordered this blue ABS dress the other day and am waiting for it to come in to try. I love the idea of a light blue or light green dress!
And here's a picture of my inspiration thus far.
So that's what I have thus far! I had a thought today too about the ceremony and the bridal party. We are having a couple of family/friends on each side, however I feel its kind of weird to have them standing up the whole time. Has anyone ever had their bridal party walk down the aisle and then maybe take seats on each side? I think I would prolly hate having to stand during a whole ceremony. I duno it was just something I was wondering if maybe anyone else had done?
Thanks for reading!