Long before D proposed, I began planning our wedding. Actually, this started long before I even met D. I blame this on our society, which programs us to imagine our fairy tale wedding from the time we are barely old enough to pop our worn copy of Beauty and the Beast into the VCR and hit play. And if you are too young to remember this you are FAR TOO YOUNG to be planning your wedding in earnest! Go travel and live your life for a while first!
Anyway, at some point I was listening to NPR and heard an interview with the author of a book called A Practical Wedding. I vowed that I would read this book when I got engaged.
The blog for A Practical Wedding is fantastic. That's where I first read about the Wedding Industrial Complex. I will be talking about/ranting against the WIC often, so I suggest you find out exactly what it is here::
http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/04/wedding-industrial-complex-as-it-were/
So let this be a warning to anyone who expects the "traditional" wedding (which you will learn, if you read A Practical Wedding, is not so traditional after all!)--
D and I won't be doing things for our wedding because those are the things you are supposed to do or the things everyone expects you to do. (Unless one of those things is really really important to someone who is really really important to us. . . )
We will not go into debt or drain our savings for one day because that's what people think it takes to have a "nice" wedding.
We will create a wedding that celebrates us as a couple, and thanks our friends and family for all their love and support.
We will not pay a premium for something ONLY because we attach the word "wedding" to it.
We will honor traditions that are important to us as a couple.
As our first act of hospitality as a married couple, we will throw an AMAZING party.
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