Everything is falling into place like butter suddenly.

Everything is falling into place like butter suddenly.

I found the key to my wedding bliss (with the occasional hiccup I'm sure.)

I stopped trying to fit my wedding into the status quo boundaries. We're eclectic, eccentric and more than a little odd. I tend to take ideas from many different sources and piece-meal things together, creating something altogether new and uniquely me.

I had been doing this with our wedding without even realizing it, while still fighting for the prescribed conformity most adhere to within the wedding world. As soon as I realized that our wedding is matching our way of life, I saw it in Big Picture finally and it all made perfect sense to me. I can blend between the themes easily, they are all toe-crossingly close to each other anyway.

I decided to do an FAQ as the first entry of this wedblog. That way I can refer people there instead of answering the same questions over and over and over and... ad nauseum.

I'm also SUPER excited about our engagement party cake.
Mar, who is doing our wedding cake, is also doing this one. She LOVES a challenge and is phenomenal with sculpting food.
She's creating marzipan sculptures of us, him dressed as JR Bob Dobbs and myself as a tattooed June Cleaver type, but with sword and staff in hands, standing on a dungeon grid map.

As Mar said "You guys are such DORKS!"

I'll definitely post pics of it, but you'll have to wait a month when the party is.
The photos for her to model off of will be taken this Saturday and some will become our engagement photos.
I'll post those as soon as Alan has them edited and ready for print.

We booked our ceremony musician this week, John Milton, he's a friend of mine who's a great folk guitarist and singer. He's awesome at doing covers, which just rocks our socks. This is our list:

Party's Processional: The Story - Brandi Carlyle
Rachel's Processional: It's Always Now - Willie Nelson
Recessional: I'm Yours - Jason Mraj
Post-Recessional: Ghost Riders In The Sky - Johnny Cash

Pre-Ceremony (In no particular order):

Crazy Love - Van Morrison
I will follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie
Blue Skies For Everyone - Bob Schneider
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
In a Little While - U2
Something So Right - Paul Simon style with a tempo closer to Annie Lennox
Sonnet I (And When the Sun Goes Down) - Crash Test Dummies
Then I Met You - the Proclaimers

We're real pranksters, my family is a bunch of jokers and our friends are just as hijinks prone as we are. We plan on having a ton of fun, while allowing our friends to really show their stuff to the community.

What a load off my shoulders to let go of the need to be like everyone else.
I can have my faerytale wedding and others can too and I hope to goodness they are as individual as we all are!