Guest Bloggin' with The Knot

Surprise! I've been keeping this all bottled up inside but I can finally tell you! A couple of weeks ago Noa of Feather Love asked me if I would guest blog with her over at The Knot's vintage spin-off site. Apparently, Miss Noa thinks I know a little something on the subject of vintage weddings and I didn't want to correct her. Our intro post is up today and I'll be posting over there about once a week with vintage wedding ideas. If you have any suggestions let me know! Thanks!

The Website Wackness

Our wedding website was a big ol' challenge. We researched different wedding websites together and were thoroughly disappointed with the selection out there. It was either too tackalicious or too gaggy sweet or too pretty or too expensive. Nothing screamed us and we weren't about to take over $100 out of the budget to make something us. The big elements we wanted (besides a cool website) were a song suggestion page - where folks can suggest music for our giant iPod playlist - and a RSVP page. Even the most generic, cheap-o sites have a RSVP option but the playlist page was a little harder to find. Then Ms. Crackpipe, oh I mean the bowie bride, showed me the way!!! We ended up buying a cheap url and designing our site through Wix. Definitely the way to go if you want a more hands-on approach to the website process. It is SUPER easy to use and you can totally personalize your website however you want. There are different backgrounds and it's flash so you can have lots of cool effects. I definitely geeked out for a few days making this thing cuz I'm cool like that. Now I'm not going to show you the exact website (unless you want to email me and ask nicely then maybe I will) but I took some screen shots for ya.

The home page (it sparkles and plays music!)

Table of Contents

Calendar of Events

Stuff to do

The song request page

Gallery of our wedding warriors

In the Bag

Not like I need another project but I love these little drawstring bags from Tec Petaja's latest wedding. I would probably go crazy making over 100 but maybe just a few for friends? And I found inexpensive, US-made, 100% cotton bags here.

Greater Garter

The thought of wearing a garter never occured to me. I'm not having anyone's head up my dress so what's the point of wearing one. That was before I saw this vintage-inspired beauties by Florrie Mitton. I.die.

The Problem With An Outdoor Venue

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You can't decorate the ceiling with birdies and crazy antlers!!!

I Like It Ruff(led)

I don't know, man. I think this wedding sh*t has really made me lose it. The other day I told my friend that I wanted to "poop ruffles" on my wedding day. Ruffles! Just cover me in them! I can't stand it! I blame her. If I had a 23" waist I would buy this dress in a HEARTBEAT and take those sleeves off.

More Ruffle Butts:

Edgardo Bonilla

Vintage William Cahill

Lazaro

Pattis

Palazzo

And ruffles do not come cheap, my friend. Anyone know where I can find a cheap ruffle butt out there?

There's No I'm Sorry About It

I have a favor to ask all the bloggers and blog-commenters out there. Can we stop apologizing, please? I really don't want to read another introduction to a post that starts with "I'm sorry I said that..." or "I'm sorry I feel this way but..." Or a comment apologizing for writing an opinion or feeling a certain way or making a certain decision. Your feelings and opinions are completely valid when it comes to your wedding. Just because our budgets differ or our invitation process is different doesn't mean that one of us is wrong. We don't have to judge each other for making those choices. Sure, we can still express individual thoughts (in a civil and nonjudgemental manner, of course) but it doesn't have to be a battle. I love posts that make me think about all the other ways people go about planning a wedding and make me want to participate in a discussion. It doesn't mean I'm going to think you are a horrible person for feeling that way or doing that thing.

So own it and stand up for yourself! Don't let people tell you that your feelings are wrong or you're choices are not right just because it differs from what that person might have done. They're the *ssh*le, not you!