One year today, I will be wearing THE dress, will have a sparklesome new ring on my finger, will have a new name and will be married. A teeny bit scary but also fabulous!
Friday 30 July 2010
365 days to go...
One year today, I will be wearing THE dress, will have a sparklesome new ring on my finger, will have a new name and will be married. A teeny bit scary but also fabulous!
Monday 26 July 2010
How unique is unique?
I'm sure that I'm like many brides in wanting a unique, soecial, personal wedding (for now, I'll ignore the irony of that sentence!). But how original can you be?
I am an official loser and have a scrapbook full of ideas I've collected from magazines. I'm also now addicted to wedding & events blogs and I even have a saved list of links to anything I find that I love (how very Monica Geller of me).
The trouble is, with all these ideas coming from somewhere, am I running the risk of ending up with a similar wedding to all those other people out there looking for inspiration?
I love the Rock 'n Roll Bride blog and the other day, innocently came across this wedding:
The title alone got me interested and although I'm not this shabby-chic in taste, lots of these ideas are my ideas, Goddammit! The use of vintage books, the paper and fabric flowers, the soda bar...
I felt a bit gutted actually. Because I realised that my 'unique' ideas, that are all special in my head, can never really be that if they've been influenced by so many other people.
But then I realised that, for my guests and for me and my H2B, it will be unique and special. So what if someone else had fabulous fabric flowers? So what if I stole an idea from somewhere? We all have to start somewhere and we all add our own stamp onto our days, even if it's just the choice of colour, the scent of a candle or the print of a paper.
And if my wedding can look half as much fun or half as stylish as most of the weddings I see all over the place, then I'm going to be a very lucky girl indeed.
I am an official loser and have a scrapbook full of ideas I've collected from magazines. I'm also now addicted to wedding & events blogs and I even have a saved list of links to anything I find that I love (how very Monica Geller of me).
The trouble is, with all these ideas coming from somewhere, am I running the risk of ending up with a similar wedding to all those other people out there looking for inspiration?
I love the Rock 'n Roll Bride blog and the other day, innocently came across this wedding:
The title alone got me interested and although I'm not this shabby-chic in taste, lots of these ideas are my ideas, Goddammit! The use of vintage books, the paper and fabric flowers, the soda bar...
I felt a bit gutted actually. Because I realised that my 'unique' ideas, that are all special in my head, can never really be that if they've been influenced by so many other people.
But then I realised that, for my guests and for me and my H2B, it will be unique and special. So what if someone else had fabulous fabric flowers? So what if I stole an idea from somewhere? We all have to start somewhere and we all add our own stamp onto our days, even if it's just the choice of colour, the scent of a candle or the print of a paper.
And if my wedding can look half as much fun or half as stylish as most of the weddings I see all over the place, then I'm going to be a very lucky girl indeed.
Sunday 4 July 2010
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