I started planning my wedding when I was realllllly young before I understood what 'wedding' meant. I didn't understand how muc it cost or what a marriage actually was or what it entailed. When I didn't knwo any of that, I wanted a HUGE white dress... like a puffy one and I wanted like every single person I ever knew there. And I wanted it in a church. And I wanted my proposal to be very elegant, at like a fancy restaurant.
NOW let's start with the proposal. I am really corny. I want it to be big and public. So like on a billboard. Or during a Red Sox game in front of the whole stadium. I'd like it to be a surprise. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, NO MATTER WHAT - he has to get down on one knee. I know I want a very small wedding on the beach at sunset with a decent sized reception. I honestly don't like the idea of spending so much $ on a party that lasts one day instead of putting like a nice downpayment on a house... And I definitely want my wedding song to be "I shall believe" by Sheryl Crow. I'd love to have a live cover band (as opposed to some random band that played all their own songs like you see in movies - yuck!). I'd like to either sing something to my husband at the reception or have something recorded for us to dance to of me singing. And I would like to write our own vows. And as corny as it may sound, I really want the whole, "Love is patient, love is kind" thing said. My dress? has to be pure white even though technically it shouldn't be. And it can't have sleeves and preferably now straps although if I found the perfect styled dress, spaghetti straps would be ok. I have this binder I keep of great wedding dresses I've seen. I no longer want a puffy Cinderella type dress but something elegant but NOT a straight down dress. Something like this:
Now I have a couple questions: 1. Are you and Ben thinking of getting hitched? 2. What does "don't spill ALL the beans" mean in referrence to this. 3. HOW did you get to go to the Yankee Candle guys' place?!?
hahahaha calm down chickadee. i just mean don't spill all the beans in case you have anything special you want JUST for your own wedding... it just seemed my friend didn't want to give everything away when i was talking to her. and i got to go to his place cause Ben's friend does the electric work for him... like home security stuff, installing the plasma screens, installing the dvd and sound equipment for the MOVIE THEATER (which he shows off to jerry seinfeld - there was an autographed pic TO mike) and things like the drop down projection screen and projector in the lodge's dressing room and the big plasma screen that RISES UP OUT OF THE DRESSER IN HIS 13 YEAR OLD SON'S BEDROOM... haha. anyway, a friend of ben's who i've known for a while needed some extra help with stuff so we both went yesterday to the property and i helped vaccuum crap up after they drilled holes in the ceiling in the lodge, and then i put labels on the light switch panels in the main house cause they controlled lights, tvs, ipod controls, and channels and volume... blah blah blah. so if you ever get to go to his house, check out the light panels in the sun room and the kitchen... cause i put the labels on the 12-button panels!!! hahahahaha. oh man.
seriously tho... this guy lives in amherst AND leverett - his property spans both towns. he's got his own "car barn" cause his garage wasnt big enough to hold all the cars, his house is HUGH, then he's got (ON THE PROPERTY) another lodge, a separate INN, a spa/pool that people actually come in to work at and give massages and stuff, his own gold course, and more things that i can't think of. he should be on the "fabulous life of the rich and famous" with that leech guy. his movie theater (where i got to spend some time) is fully fitted with the "look" of a movie theater - with red carpeted walls and 10 red leather seats that don't just recline... but do so automatically as opposed to the lever-pull thing in normal easy chairs... no these, you put your hand down and PUSH A BUTTON like in the car, that reclines the seat. the screen is hidden behind a RED CURTAIN and each seat has cupholders and the whole thing is controlled by a touch-screen remote. if you go past the movie theater, (this is all in the basement), you get to the dungeon-like formal dining areas (like, more than 1) with FULL WINE CELLARS THAT ARE BIGGER THAN MY APARTMENT, with a full commercial kitchen... in the basement, not even the main kitchen in the house, and more and more wine cellars with wine lining each wall as well as being stacked in the center. he needs two rooms for "master controls" alone... ben called it the brains and the mini brains of the house, with all the satellite equipment and whatnot for the house. yea, and get this - since he lives in both amherst and leveritt, he has both comcast cable an dish network - cause the property can't just run from one side - the towns wont let him. HA! the land is surrounded by a green fence to keep out the bad guys and the security system is pretty thorough... ben was telling me that he has some cameras hidden in trees, and you have to be cleared by a guard before going in... man. actually, we were driving back to the main house from the lodge (yea, it's that far away) and the dog walker saw us and when we got the main house, some security guy came in asking about the green car with pennsylvania plates (mine). damn. it was insane. i could go on for hours... as you can tell.
NOW let's start with the proposal. I am really corny. I want it to be big and public. So like on a billboard. Or during a Red Sox game in front of the whole stadium. I'd like it to be a surprise. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, NO MATTER WHAT - he has to get down on one knee. I know I want a very small wedding on the beach at sunset with a decent sized reception. I honestly don't like the idea of spending so much $ on a party that lasts one day instead of putting like a nice downpayment on a house... And I definitely want my wedding song to be "I shall believe" by Sheryl Crow. I'd love to have a live cover band (as opposed to some random band that played all their own songs like you see in movies - yuck!). I'd like to either sing something to my husband at the reception or have something recorded for us to dance to of me singing. And I would like to write our own vows. And as corny as it may sound, I really want the whole, "Love is patient, love is kind" thing said. My dress? has to be pure white even though technically it shouldn't be. And it can't have sleeves and preferably now straps although if I found the perfect styled dress, spaghetti straps would be ok. I have this binder I keep of great wedding dresses I've seen. I no longer want a puffy Cinderella type dress but something elegant but NOT a straight down dress.
Something like this:
Now I have a couple questions:
1. Are you and Ben thinking of getting hitched?
2. What does "don't spill ALL the beans" mean in referrence to this.
3. HOW did you get to go to the Yankee Candle guys' place?!?
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and i got to go to his place cause Ben's friend does the electric work for him... like home security stuff, installing the plasma screens, installing the dvd and sound equipment for the MOVIE THEATER (which he shows off to jerry seinfeld - there was an autographed pic TO mike) and things like the drop down projection screen and projector in the lodge's dressing room and the big plasma screen that RISES UP OUT OF THE DRESSER IN HIS 13 YEAR OLD SON'S BEDROOM... haha. anyway, a friend of ben's who i've known for a while needed some extra help with stuff so we both went yesterday to the property and i helped vaccuum crap up after they drilled holes in the ceiling in the lodge, and then i put labels on the light switch panels in the main house cause they controlled lights, tvs, ipod controls, and channels and volume... blah blah blah. so if you ever get to go to his house, check out the light panels in the sun room and the kitchen... cause i put the labels on the 12-button panels!!! hahahahaha. oh man.
seriously tho... this guy lives in amherst AND leverett - his property spans both towns. he's got his own "car barn" cause his garage wasnt big enough to hold all the cars, his house is HUGH, then he's got (ON THE PROPERTY) another lodge, a separate INN, a spa/pool that people actually come in to work at and give massages and stuff, his own gold course, and more things that i can't think of. he should be on the "fabulous life of the rich and famous" with that leech guy. his movie theater (where i got to spend some time) is fully fitted with the "look" of a movie theater - with red carpeted walls and 10 red leather seats that don't just recline... but do so automatically as opposed to the lever-pull thing in normal easy chairs... no these, you put your hand down and PUSH A BUTTON like in the car, that reclines the seat. the screen is hidden behind a RED CURTAIN and each seat has cupholders and the whole thing is controlled by a touch-screen remote. if you go past the movie theater, (this is all in the basement), you get to the dungeon-like formal dining areas (like, more than 1) with FULL WINE CELLARS THAT ARE BIGGER THAN MY APARTMENT, with a full commercial kitchen... in the basement, not even the main kitchen in the house, and more and more wine cellars with wine lining each wall as well as being stacked in the center. he needs two rooms for "master controls" alone... ben called it the brains and the mini brains of the house, with all the satellite equipment and whatnot for the house. yea, and get this - since he lives in both amherst and leveritt, he has both comcast cable an dish network - cause the property can't just run from one side - the towns wont let him. HA! the land is surrounded by a green fence to keep out the bad guys and the security system is pretty thorough... ben was telling me that he has some cameras hidden in trees, and you have to be cleared by a guard before going in... man. actually, we were driving back to the main house from the lodge (yea, it's that far away) and the dog walker saw us and when we got the main house, some security guy came in asking about the green car with pennsylvania plates (mine). damn. it was insane. i could go on for hours... as you can tell.
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i like how you side stepped the ben-marriage question ;)
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