details?!
There’s a funny thing about facebook. Literally as soon as I announced that I was now engaged, I suddenly noticed that the sidebar ads had changed. No longer were they trying to sell me Romanian newspapers or trying to set me up with the “hottest” boy around. Suddenly I am inundated with ads for wedding photography and all the best planning ideas . . . all costing money, of course.
Weddings are kind of crazy. I’m thinking more and more that elopement is the way to go, except that Kirk and I promised that we wouldn’t do that. I was never one of those girls in college who bought bridal magazines before ever meeting the guy. I haven’t planned every detail of my wedding since I was old enough to talk. And reading the helpful wedding book of lists just made me depressed because it had a few hundreds pages of check-off lists . . . a few hundred pages of details that I didn’t want to think about in the first place.
But I’m looking forward to the wedding. I’m prepared to celebrate and dance and have a grand old time with a few hundred of my closest friends (and some people I’ve never met before)! I think it’ll be fabulous. But I’m looking forward to the marriage even more. Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be?
I had to laugh at your post. I’m with you in not having all the details of “my” wedding planned since childhood. it was only a couple of years ago that i thought, hey, red’s a nice colour
and i wouldn’t read the wedding planning books too closely anyways – according to them you should have started planning about a year ago or so – which would have been before it had ever occurred to you that you might be getting married.
enjoy planning for the marriage, though
and many blessings.
Amen!!