Tag You're It with a twist--make this one all about your wedding! You have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, habits, or goals about anything to do with your whole wedding process--anything from engagement to relationship to planning to day of is open territory.
At the end you're supposed to choose 10 people to be tagged, but for this version I'll tag all the B2B girls and challenge them to really think about their answers...maybe some of the random info will actually help some bride to be's surfing the site.
If you aren't a B2B girl so you can't share your own random tidbits here, leave a comment with one or two things about your own experience...or consider becoming a B2B Girl!
1) I got engaged in Italy, and didn't tell my mom until the next day (and only then bc I called home for Christmas and felt guilty), and didn't tell anyone else until we got back weeks later. I just wanted the moment to belong only to us--nothing wrong with that!
2) I had my first dress fitting the day before the wedding and picked up my dress 5 hours before the ceremony. I had my (fabulous) dress custom made, but after deciding on the dress design and ordering the material, I moved the wedding date up 6 months! Can we say problemo! But the designers somehow managed to pull it off on an impossibly short time line. I knew not to sweat the small stuff and learned not to sweat the big stuff--everything always works out one way or another.
3) I got extensions for the wedding...they turned out AMAZING and looked oh so au natural, but can you say PAINFUL!! Not so much the process of putting them in, more the sleeping on them. Ouch...won't be doing that again.
4) We had a 6 month engagement and I think it was more than enough time. My wedding turned out spectacular, I got to enjoy the highlights of wedding planning...and be done with the stress sooner too! Don't feel like you have to have a long engagement just to fit all your details in, so not true if you are organized.
5) I HATE wedding shower games. HATE, HATE, HATE. I threatened to boycott my own shower if any were present...just because you are getting married doesn't mean you have to be a cliche bride and LOVE it all...rock it your own way. No shame in that.
6) I did all the paper products myself (with my mom). Cheaper, more fun, not terribly time consuming, just how I wanted them and they looked professional. Not too shabby.
7) I am anti the humiliating ritual of calling out all the single ladies to the floor for the flower toss...it feels way too scarlet letter to me. So I ditched it and dedicated our bouquet to my groom's parents as it was their 30th wedding anniversary this year and they didn't get a party.
8) The best man was my grooms bro...and his toast was a DISASTER. I could sum it up in two words: drunken nonsense. At first I was livid, then I got over it. I learned that day that even in-law family is real family, and I suddenly had a lot more tolerance to forgive and forget just like I would with my own brothers (not that I don't reserve the right to rub it in every now and again). Funny-and really neat- how that happens.
9) I walked myself down the aisle. Blame it on one too many Bronte sister novels I read as a young and impressionable youth, but I was disturbed by the symbolism. I am not property, nor do I need to be spoken for, and didn't like the idea of being "given" away. I walked halfway down and met my groom in the middle and we walked to the alter together. It was the sweetest moment, and it was all ours. Everyone was aghast when I told them what I was going to do, but in the end everyone agreed it was lovely. Break with tradition if you want--its your day, do it the way that feels right for you.
10) Even though hubby and I had been together 4 years, something about being married has changed our dynamic. People say marriage is just a piece of paper, but we've found that it is SO much more in ways impossible to describe and impossible to imagine living without.
So you made it through the stress of the planning and the big day and now you are home. And the reality has set in. Oh yes you love him but if he leaves his dirty socks on top of the coffee table one more time he is going to be VERY sorry. So what do you do? Scream? Ignore him? Kick him to the couch? It can be tempting to do all of these things but just remember: treat him how you would him to treat you. When it comes to "fighting" follow these few rules. 1) No name calling - don't call each other anything you would call each when you are NOT mad. You can't take those words back. 2) Pick your battles. Is it really worth starting a fight over the fact that he leaves the newspaper laying out all day? Probably not. Save your battles for the big stuff. 3) Don't go to bed mad. EVER. It's not worth it. You sleep terribly and you wake up mad. That's no fun! Work it out before you turn out the lights.
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