bethplusjeremy

I haven't posted in a few months, but that doesn't mean I haven't been daydreaming about my wedding every chance I get. I never thought I would be into the whole frou-frou wedding scene, but as it turns out, weddings don't have to be frou-frou, uptight, or very traditional at all nowadays. Although I am going to take Sarah Jessica Parker's advice and wear white. I may be a crazy non-traditionalist, but there are some traditions that are just plain fun. Or pretty.

June ninth will be our one year engaga-versary. It's still crazy to think about how it happened. If I haven't told you the epic tale of our engagement, you can read the story on our wedding webpage. We joke about having a barbecue or bonfire with vegan s'mores to commemorate the event, but we will probably just cozy up at home and rest. We've both been crazy busy in the past few months. I finally graduated and my first job out of college is designing an outdoor sculpture for the university. It's very exciting, but I'm also scared to death to have been given something this huge. I'm used to making things that look better under stage lighting and get torn down in two weeks, not things that people walk by and sit on and are made out of stone. Hopefully I will survive and continue the trend of getting paid to make art. Jeremy graduates in December and is completely swamped with designing all sorts of awesome computer and robotic kind of things. Every day he has something completely mind-boggling to show me. This boy is a genius. No wonder I'm marrying him!

Expect some more wedding updates in the future! My mom took some lovely pictures of Jeremy, Eli, and I that I need to share. I didn't know at the time, but apparently, it's common practice in the wedding industry to pay hundreds of dollars to have a professional photographer take engagement portraits. With a little photoshop, our pictures look amazing. See? I was being thrifty and I didn't even know it. Let's hope I continue this trend. Apparently folks also spend thousands of dollars renting fancy chairs. Chairs! Seriously. If I start talking about wanting to rent fancy chairs and have our likenesses carved in ice, please beam me back down to planet earth.

I love this Claire Pettibone dress. I don't think I would wear this in November, but it is one of the few dresses that has everything I'm looking for. I want a dress with a modern, grecian feel to it that is extremely delicate and feminine without being big and poufy. I want it to appear simple, but the more you look at it, the more little details reveal themselves.

Can I find a dress that will do all this?

I probably will design my own dress in the end. After all, I'm getting a BFA in costume design. I think I will probably start thinking more about this after I graduate in May. It seems all of my design classes are sucking up all of my creative energy, and the last thing I want is for planning my wedding to seem like a chore.

Hello Friends!

Welcome to my wedding journal! This is my little spot on the internet where I can share ideas, post pictures, and keep my fabulous friends and family updated about my upcoming wedding to the lovely Jeremy Joseph. Although we have over a year until our big day, I am excited to start looking for ideas, and it seemed like I should start writing them down. Wedding Journals seem to be all the trend nowadays, and I can't deny that I have caught the "wedding fever," and want to start blogging myself. I hope to keep everyone inspired and entertained with my rather unique wedding ideas!

Unique, you say? Oh, yes. I have some very unique ideas. The idea of a big, white, fluffy wedding does not appeal to me at all. Nor does it appeal to Mr. Jeremy. Oh, no. We are creative people who don't like to do things the "normal way." We want to have a big, festive celebration that reflects us, regardless of what a "traditional" wedding looks like. The more I research what other modern brides are doing, the more I'm noticing that so many of us are planning weddings that are much more personal and meaningful. These non-traditional brides have inspired me to start thinking about what kind of meaningful traditions (or "non-traditions") I want to have at our wedding.


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