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!

First Post - FAQ

It's a surprise to everyone and we're not done yet.

FAQ without and with the questions:

Yes, we are getting married.
No, it hasn't fully sunk in yet.
Yes, we want 2 kids actually.
No, I'm not already pregnant.
Yes, we want kids to happen sooner than later.

The colors of the wedding are: navy blue, dark emerald green and deep purple.

My dress will hopefully be: light rose pink with ivory embroidery. (The first dress was mistakenly made in a lovely red mahogany brown color, we're waiting for the replacement to arrive.)



We've been asked about our theme and people are confused.
Is it an ocean/beach/lighthouse theme? Yes.
Is it a traditional midwestern country church theme? Yes.
Is it Christmas/Yule themed? Yes.
Is it Victorian Garden Faerie themed? Yes.
Are we mix-matching however we like because that's just the way we are? Definitely.

Are we worried about cohesive anything? Only that wedding party people show up in the outfits chosen at the prescribed time and are willing to walk down the aisle together.

Are we really trying to keep as much as possible to reuse/recycle craft projects for decorations? You bet!

Is the cake really going to be a lighthouse? Yes.
With a working light and an ocean/beach cake attached to it to feed the masses. Mar's amazing and loves to sculpt food, use fondant and edible paints; we believe in giving her challenges and letting her go with it.

Are we feeding you? Define feeding. We'll be providing enough food to make sure you don't starve, but can't afford enough to make you stuffed.

Are we getting you drunk? Probably not unless you're a lightweight. We'll be providing enough to get everyone going and hope that you all will bring bottles to share and keep the bar going until it's time to close down and clean up.

What's the music going to be like? We're romantic saps with a penchance for cheese.

The wedding ceremony: will have John Milton as our main performer on acoustic guitar and vocals. He'll be doing covers of songs we picked out specifically for the ceremony. A super surprise, tucked in the midst of too many words - I'm walking the aisle to one of Willie Nelson's newest songs "It's Always Now."

The receptions: will be grooving with DJ Dodo Glantern giving us the super fine cheeze of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and beyond.

We had some trouble with our partyin reception site so we're looking into alternative sites for the drinking and dancing part of the evening. The cake, toasts and tosses reception will be at the ceremony site: the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder.

We're having 3 crafts days for those who like to make things and want to contribute to our decorations.
#1 = Friday, September 18th on Capital Hill - address to be announced on the wedsite.
#2 = Monday, September 28th on Capital Hill - address to be announced on the wedsite.
#3 = Sunday, October 4th @ the Syzergy Community Center, Rollinsville, CO.

The Bridal Shower will be Sunday, October 18th at Erin and Luke McOmie's house Aurora, CO.

All the times and addresses will be provided on the wedsite when it is finalized.

any more questions?