wedding questions

[hooveraardvark]

for lack of anyone else to ask i am posting this here

Comments

[chibimonkichi]

Sorry youre going through ask much wedding stress. It's definitely a frustrating thing. Do you have a maid of honor/best man. I feel that even with just those two to toast its enough for the evening. As a guest we are all eating anyway. XD but you don't want to have the awkwardness of my wedding. Most of us are shy so when the dj went around no one wanted to talk...

I think it's fine too if you just have the flowers and not a lot of center piece. I mean, in the end it's your wedding and you should only care for what makes you happy. Worrying too much about what details only causes more stress...gah sorry I'm not good advice. All I know is if I had to do it again....it would have been a lot more simple than what I did, and I didnt do much. ;;;

[hooveraardvark]

i do have a maid of honor, it's my sister, but she lives across the country so there is a limit to what she can do. i just need to take a deep breath, i think. i will probably just do the simple table decoration idea.

[ursule]

Your best man and maid/matron of honor have to toast if there is any toasting going. We skipped that and it was fine.

I think your ideas for centerpieces sound cute.

[ursule]

Oh, and I have never heard of the photo backdrop thing.

[hooveraardvark]

i think we will just be nontraditional about the toasting. i will ask my sister if she wants to but i doubt she will. i did ask a few other people though.

[mollya]

I think a great thing about contemporary weddings is that you can do whatever you want - it's your wedding. The scattered ballerina centerpieces sound great. Forget the photo backdrops.

[hooveraardvark]

yeah, i know it is my wedding, but honestly it is happening more for the benefit of our parents than for us. i know i am overreacting, i probably just need a day off.

[tabletopphantom]

I am collecting a crap ton of milk glass and then hopefully selling it afterwards. I might keep some of it, but most of it I will box up and either approach some vintage shops around here and see if they have a bride who has been asking about it or I will put it on a wedding message board/craigslist to see if a local-ish bride will want to pick it up from me for a set price. That way I have the cheap decor but don't have to keep it afterwards.

[hooveraardvark]

i just have so much crap already and don't want to deal with getting rid of more. but i think the milk glass idea is super cute!

[agentdanger]

Toasts: Yes, invite specific people to toast. We told our families (having no wedding party aside from them) that there would be a specific window of time when toasting would be nice if they felt like doing it. It worked well. I think if we had just set a mic up and left it to chance, people would have been confused about whether or not they were "supposed" to toast and no one would have done it

[hooveraardvark]

yeah, i just asked a close friend to toast us, we will decide on a few more people.

i think i will run to a party supply store and see if anything catches my eye. otherwise i'm not bothering.

thanks for your nice comments about wedding stuff. i need to calm down.