T-Minus 7 Months and a Re-Introduction
Lots of stuff has changed, so I'm doing a re-introduction post. Hope no one minds!
Name and/or LJ userID: Erin
Wedding Date: September 10, 2009
Bride/Groom/Other (please specify): I am the bride. Brian is the groom.
Age: I'm 25, he's 29
City/State/Country you live in: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Your song/First Dance song: We're not having a dance anymore
Wedding Colors: The girls are wearing green dresses, the guys are wearing black suits and ties.
Formality: Kinda casual, but not jeans and tees
Theme (if you have one): No theme, just getting hitched!
Number of guests: Dunno yet. Maybe like 30?
How'd you meet your fiance?: Online at www.plentyoffish.com
How long have you been together?: Just over 2 years
Do you have a personal wedding website?: Sure do! briananderin.ca (It's still a little under construction and doesn't contain that much information yet.)
Have you read the community rules before posting this survey? Why yes, yes I did. :)
Anything else you'd like to tell us?: Sure!
This is us. :)
I'm the bride who constantly changes her mind, much to the chagrin of my mother, my maid of honour, and my other best friends. My MOH is the best; I text her at least 10 times a day about wedding stuff and she hasn't killed me yet.
Originally we were going to have a small ceremony on December 1, 2008 and then a second ceremony and reception on March 13, 2009. That plan backfired when too many people found out about the first ceremony and wanted to come. (Kind of defeated the purpose of having the small ceremony to begin with.) So we decided to do everything in March. Then we realized that the venue wouldn't hold as many people as we wanted to invite and it would be effing cold (we live in Canada; it's still cold in March and the weather is usually super lousy). So we decided to change everything to September 12, 2009 and have the wedding at Brian's parents acreage. Everything was going full steam ahead until last weekend when we realized the wedding was getting out of control. We were way over our original budget and shy of slashing the guest list in half, we were going to send ourselves to the poor house.
So we decided to elope. To Vegas.
My mother is thrilled as she's been saying from the day after we got engaged that we should go to Vegas. She told her best friends that "[she] always gets [her] way with weddings even if they're not [her] own"! It makes me laugh that she ended up being right all along. :)
We've decided to keep September. Mostly because we have friends getting married in July and another couple who are also our BFFs are getting married in August. Anytime before July was too soon for our work schedules, so September it is! We fly out on the 8th and get back on the 15th. My MOH and her boyfriend are planning to stay the whole time, as are Brian's parents. The more the merrier, I say! I am not opposed to hanging out with my loved ones during our mini-moon.
The plan is to get married at one of the hotels and then go for dinner somewhere. It'd be cool if we could find a restaurant that had live entertainment and dancing but I'm happy with just dinner. I definitely want to ride the rollercoaster at New York, New York in my dress. My mom found a coupon for 4 people in a bridal party to ride for 56$ and you get two souvenir 5x7 photos! I suspect we'll be riding a few times in order to get photos with everyone! Brian's never been on a rollercoaster so this should be a definite adventure.
And now the photos I promised. :)
Dress. These are old pics, from spring '08. Holy crap, I can't believe I've had a wedding dress for over a year. I hope I'm not the only one!
Shoes! I love the shoes. I want to wear them every day forever and ever
Brian's suit, D&G. We figured if I get to wear a 1500$ dress, he should get to buy a 2000$ suit. We chose a suit over wedding rings.
I don't have a photo of the wedding rings but they belonged to his paternal grandparents. His dad gave them to us after Brian's grandfather died in October. His grandparents were married for 50+ years and his grandfather's ring fits Brian perfectly. I have to resize his grandmother's rings and get them soldered together. They're not flashy in the least (yellow gold band, maybe a 0.10 carat diamond) but they're sentimental and neither of us are big into jewelry. If we can have half as good a marriage as Brian's grandparents, we'll consider ourselves very lucky!
This is my MOH's dress. It's from JCrew, the Vionette. She bought it the day that post was made about the sale, so she got a killer deal on it.
These invitations are from Flush Designs and my MOH is going to design something similar.
I'm going to buy my girls (and myself) these shirts. I'm not sure where we'll wear them but they're cute nonetheless! My MOH thought this was brilliant and said the best part is that for her wedding, we can just trade. :)
Even though we're not having a cake, I still really want to make a katamari damacy cake topper. Just cause.
I can't really think of anything else that we've got planned. I'm checking out hotels for the ceremony online and my mom's gonna check them out when she heads to Vegas in March. We'll make our decision then and send invitations. Woo!
The guilt over the destination wedding has already started from my side of the family. I knew it going in that my family (except my mom and dad) were not going to be happy about it. A couple of friends have already told us they won't be able to make it. We knew this, too. We're planning to have a low-key barbeque when we get back, just to say "Hey check it out, we're back and we're hitched!"
So that's pretty much it. Anyone else doing the Vegas thing? :D
Name and/or LJ userID: Erin
Wedding Date: September 10, 2009
Bride/Groom/Other (please specify): I am the bride. Brian is the groom.
Age: I'm 25, he's 29
City/State/Country you live in: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
City/State/Country you're getting married in (if different): Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Your song/First Dance song: We're not having a dance anymore
Wedding Colors: The girls are wearing green dresses, the guys are wearing black suits and ties.
Formality: Kinda casual, but not jeans and tees
Theme (if you have one): No theme, just getting hitched!
Number of guests: Dunno yet. Maybe like 30?
How'd you meet your fiance?: Online at www.plentyoffish.com
How long have you been together?: Just over 2 years
Do you have a personal wedding website?: Sure do! briananderin.ca (It's still a little under construction and doesn't contain that much information yet.)
Have you read the community rules before posting this survey? Why yes, yes I did. :)
Anything else you'd like to tell us?: Sure!
This is us. :)
I'm the bride who constantly changes her mind, much to the chagrin of my mother, my maid of honour, and my other best friends. My MOH is the best; I text her at least 10 times a day about wedding stuff and she hasn't killed me yet.
Originally we were going to have a small ceremony on December 1, 2008 and then a second ceremony and reception on March 13, 2009. That plan backfired when too many people found out about the first ceremony and wanted to come. (Kind of defeated the purpose of having the small ceremony to begin with.) So we decided to do everything in March. Then we realized that the venue wouldn't hold as many people as we wanted to invite and it would be effing cold (we live in Canada; it's still cold in March and the weather is usually super lousy). So we decided to change everything to September 12, 2009 and have the wedding at Brian's parents acreage. Everything was going full steam ahead until last weekend when we realized the wedding was getting out of control. We were way over our original budget and shy of slashing the guest list in half, we were going to send ourselves to the poor house.
So we decided to elope. To Vegas.
My mother is thrilled as she's been saying from the day after we got engaged that we should go to Vegas. She told her best friends that "[she] always gets [her] way with weddings even if they're not [her] own"! It makes me laugh that she ended up being right all along. :)
We've decided to keep September. Mostly because we have friends getting married in July and another couple who are also our BFFs are getting married in August. Anytime before July was too soon for our work schedules, so September it is! We fly out on the 8th and get back on the 15th. My MOH and her boyfriend are planning to stay the whole time, as are Brian's parents. The more the merrier, I say! I am not opposed to hanging out with my loved ones during our mini-moon.
The plan is to get married at one of the hotels and then go for dinner somewhere. It'd be cool if we could find a restaurant that had live entertainment and dancing but I'm happy with just dinner. I definitely want to ride the rollercoaster at New York, New York in my dress. My mom found a coupon for 4 people in a bridal party to ride for 56$ and you get two souvenir 5x7 photos! I suspect we'll be riding a few times in order to get photos with everyone! Brian's never been on a rollercoaster so this should be a definite adventure.
And now the photos I promised. :)
Dress. These are old pics, from spring '08. Holy crap, I can't believe I've had a wedding dress for over a year. I hope I'm not the only one!
Shoes! I love the shoes. I want to wear them every day forever and ever
Brian's suit, D&G. We figured if I get to wear a 1500$ dress, he should get to buy a 2000$ suit. We chose a suit over wedding rings.
I don't have a photo of the wedding rings but they belonged to his paternal grandparents. His dad gave them to us after Brian's grandfather died in October. His grandparents were married for 50+ years and his grandfather's ring fits Brian perfectly. I have to resize his grandmother's rings and get them soldered together. They're not flashy in the least (yellow gold band, maybe a 0.10 carat diamond) but they're sentimental and neither of us are big into jewelry. If we can have half as good a marriage as Brian's grandparents, we'll consider ourselves very lucky!
This is my MOH's dress. It's from JCrew, the Vionette. She bought it the day that post was made about the sale, so she got a killer deal on it.
These invitations are from Flush Designs and my MOH is going to design something similar.
I'm going to buy my girls (and myself) these shirts. I'm not sure where we'll wear them but they're cute nonetheless! My MOH thought this was brilliant and said the best part is that for her wedding, we can just trade. :)
Even though we're not having a cake, I still really want to make a katamari damacy cake topper. Just cause.
I can't really think of anything else that we've got planned. I'm checking out hotels for the ceremony online and my mom's gonna check them out when she heads to Vegas in March. We'll make our decision then and send invitations. Woo!
The guilt over the destination wedding has already started from my side of the family. I knew it going in that my family (except my mom and dad) were not going to be happy about it. A couple of friends have already told us they won't be able to make it. We knew this, too. We're planning to have a low-key barbeque when we get back, just to say "Hey check it out, we're back and we're hitched!"
So that's pretty much it. Anyone else doing the Vegas thing? :D