It’s Saturday! We’re day 3 into my big awesome and amazing meme. And since I’m actually in California at my cousin’s wedding, I thought it’d be appropriate to post something wedding-ish!
Well, first I was thinking, let’s do a photo tag of wedding pictures. Because, seriously, no one has better wedding pictures than mine. Oh, you don’t believe me? Well, it’s true! Click here. (I’ll wait, because you really have to see them.)
WAS I RIGHT?!
So, not only do I have THE WORST pictures in all of the world, I also used to work at a bridal salon. I mean, come on! How unfair is that? I knew all the trends and cool things going on in weddings. I got married in 1998. To me it felt like a cut off for all sorts of cute wedding stuff. The round bouquets? Started in 1999. Different bridesmaid dresses just of the same color? 99. Digital cameras. Certainly after 1998. The wedding picture with the large mat to sign instead of a book you shove in the back of your closet? 99. Save the date cards? At least 2000.
*sigh*
I still adore weddings, even though I kinda cringe each time I look at beautiful wedding pictures. In fact, I would love to be a wedding planner and spend other people’s money on some of my favorite wedding things!
The first thing I’d do was hire a fabu photographer. Like this amazing woman. *swoon* and *double swoon*
Then I’d do some cute save-the-date cards and fun invites. I adore these.
I’d want every single fun thing you can do at a wedding–sparklers while the bride and groom ran to their car, special music that didn’t come from a CD or a middle schooler, gobs of flowers at every corner and at least a few hundred delicious things to eat. (One of my bff’s, Yancy, had two-packs of Krispy Kreme donuts as her wedding favor. Talk about favorite things.)
One of my favorite gifts I didn’t receive, but heard about at another wedding, is going to be my new wedding gift for family members. It’s a goblet. You know, a chalice. A cup! I want to find one that would suit the new couple and maybe have their names or wedding date engraved on it.
The idea is that when they take communion at their wedding, they will use this glass. Then on their anniversaries, they take communion again from that same glass, reminding themselves of the vows they made to each other and to God. Isn’t that great?!
So, what’s your good wedding tip? Favorite gift? Horror story? Wish-you-woulda-done?
Spill it! I LOVE wedding stuff!
Jessie says
This post makes me really happy I got married in 2004. 🙂 I have 500 gorgeous wedding pictures from this lady, although we didn’t receive them digitally so I don’t have ANY online (!!!). My bridesmaids all wore navy chiffon dresses of their choosing, my uncle arranged a hymn that some of my family members sang a capella, we had incredible hor d’s and a buffet dinner, and yes, sparklers. I’m sorry, Amanda!!
annie says
Those pictures were amazing, I had the photographer from H***. Anywho… I kinda wish we had just eloped. I was in a bridal daze throughout that didn’t lift until the week after the wedding.
Amanda works at a wedding chapel and has had some interesting stories lately!
Heather says
I love the chalice idea for a wedding gift! We had communion at our wedding and we served communion to our wedding guests as our first act of service as a married couple. It was awesome!
We kept our wedding very simple, and it was perfect. I didn’t want to be bridezilla and was happy to keep things small so that I could keep my sanity.
I know it’s a stressful time, but my advice to anyone planning a wedding is “DON’T WIG OUT!” Seriously, it’s not worth it. Yes, you want your day to be perfect, but don’t stress out about little things. The main thing is to get the two of you to the altar. Everything else is bonus.
Stephanie says
That’s horrible about your wedding pictures! Josh and I got married in 1999, but I was the first of my gang to get married, so I didn’t really have anyone to guide me (my parents eloped, so my mother was no help AND she and I butted heads and she didn’t help me at ALL, even financially). But it all turned out beautifully, except the wedding coordinator at the church was supposed to set up the video camera and she didn’t. That’s the only major thing missing from my wedding. But at least I have some great pictures… ah, how young we were…
Leigh says
Oh my… Amanda – are you kidding me? Did other people give you their pics that they took of you guys? So you at least have full pictures of your faces? And everyone else has heads?
I really don’t think I would’ve done anything differently. I loved our wedding, and I had a blast! No, wait… I would’ve made the staff wait to serves the “heavy hors’deourves” (and I’m not spell-checking that, so I don’t care that it’s spelled wrong) until after we got done with the pictures. We had our wedding and reception at the same place, so everyone just went over to the reception while we were taking pictures. There was NO FOOD left when we came back in. Correction – I got A shrimp. I don’t know if Josh got anything to eat besides our cake.
Other than that – it was a dream! I got everything I ever wanted, and we really worked to make sure that the Lord was the center of the day.
Elaine says
Ok, I thought my photography was bad, but at least my pics have heads.
I am in mourning for your wedding pics at this very moment. I am so sorry.
I got married in ’99 and yes, it was before all the cool photography that they do now. It makes me wish I could get married again (to the same man of course!)
Wedding Sparklers says
I have been to your port before. The more I visit, the more I keep coming back!
Susan G says
I have frequented your site before. The more I visit, the more I keep coming back!