My Wedding
I am including this content because for many of my readers, their first introduction to me was through the wedding planning posts I wrote on Weddingbee, back when Weddingbee was, well, a lot different. So it feels like an anchor point to my very beginnings as an Online Person. It feels right to include for that reason, even though it happened about three lifetimes ago.
I designed every aspect of my wedding myself, from the centerpieces (vintage silver vases & trays I hunted down in antique shops stacked on custom “books” on the story of our relationship) to the candy bar with photos of the “sweetest” people in our lives (our friends) and hand-cranked SWAK stickers to seal the bags, to the table numbers (photos of my ex & I holding my vintage typewriter in locations all over Arizona), to the “wish paper basket” and charity jar tokens and letterpress invitations. I wrote the entire ceremony and a poem for the groom. I customized my bouquet with vintage typewriter keys, and I chose the playlists for the reception and the string quartet. There was wordplay in every printed thing, down to the cocktail hour and dinner menus and the RSVP cards.
I got to design my dream wedding, top-to-bottom, and then spend the night dancing and laughing with my best friends while wearing a blush-pink princess Monique L’huillier dress. And I didn’t even have to keep the husband.
No regrets whatsoever.
