from this Etsy store
This is pretty much what I’m basing my wedding around. We’ve got our venue and it’s a big old hall, so I plan to make metres and metres of bunting, based around these colours. This, combined with big coloured tissue paper pompoms is our main theme. I’m hoping that the bright colours and boldness of the colours and pompoms will make it look fun and a bit joyful - I’m not sure I can carry off the subtlety of a lot of weddings, despite them being beautiful. I’m trying to hold on to this being a party, not a wedding, and I hope this comes across on the day.
Things are happening a lot quicker then expected! I spent most of this week trying to get through to our preferred venue, only for it to constantly go through to an answerphone I wasn’t able to leave a message on, or for it to just ring out. Thursday afternoon I tried again, sticking it on speakerphone, only to have someone pick up! I asked about availability in March/early April, only to be told they had July 28th, the last weekend in October, or February 25th.
A quick call to my mum who spoke to the caterers we’d been looking at, a call to Warwick registry office to see if they had someone available, a call back to confirm - and suddenly we’re getting married in a little over 100 days.
Gulp.
I knew we were operating to a tighter schedule then most couples, but this now seems incredibly close. I’m not as worried as I feel I ought to be, which perversely is worrying me more. We’ve got a lot in place - we’ve got the venue, the caterers and the registrar. We’ve managed to book the wedding photographer that I really, really wanted. I’ve pretty much decided on a dress. We’ve figured out a colour scheme, and I’ve got a good idea of how I want the place to look. The majority of our decorations will be homemade, and fairly simple - we want big, clean shapes and for everything to co-ordinate.
I can do this, right?
A wedding blog, how original! This is primarily because I don’t want to inflict the minutiae of my wedding on people who normally read my sporadic blogging.
I’m a reluctant bride not because I don’t want to get married - believe me I do - but because I don’t particularly want to be a ‘bride’ with all that that entails. I bought a wedding magazine the other day. It had a checklist that suggested 18 months was the minimum time it would take to plan a wedding. I should start my diet and fitness regime 18 months out! I need 9 months to create my wedding scrapbook! 12 months to find a dress!
I plan to get married in March. I’m pretty sure it can be done, and that the world won’t look down on me for not having had 6 months of regular spray tans to ‘ensure a healthy glow on your day’.
