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Elka and Peter’s Green Farm Wedding
Mar
2009
While having a low cost, ecologically friendly wedding on our family farm is not an option for most of us, Elka and Peters deeply sane, green, and family centric wedding philosophy can absolutly inspire each of us. Reach out to your family, your community, your friends, use what you have around you. Celebrate who you are and what you have. Let your love be what reaches up to the rafters, wrap your wedding in love. With that, I'll let Elka take it away:
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Remember back when East Side Bride was my first wedding graduate ever? Her first piece of advice was this:
1. Don't go overboard with the wedding blogs. I know‌. right? They will give you a complex.
At the time, I knew it was good advice, but I wasn't quite ready to take it. I was still at the sucking-in-wedding-inspiration-with-a-straw point. In fact, I might have been mainlining wedding images into my veins. But whatever, it was TOTALLY HEALTHY, and I DID NOT HAVE A PROBLEM, thanks. I was reading wedding blogs, I was buying wedding magazines, I was under the impression that I needed to maintain some sort of physical wedding "binder," whatever that was, and even though I was very unclear what I was supposed to be putting into it, I was carefully sticking in images and forms and the like. I was on the job.
But then, one day, something changed. I noticed that 9 out of every 10 wedding blogs/magazines were not making me feel excited about our wedding, they were making me feel tired and overloaded and like I wasn't living up. Another white dress, another set of favors (and you know favors drive me over the edge), another set of bridesmaid dresses. So I decided, I was going to take East Side's advice, as an experiment, and stop. I took every wedding blog that didn't make me feel excited and engaged off my reader. Done.
Continue reading What Happened With I Stopped Reading Wedding Blogs*
1. Don't go overboard with the wedding blogs. I know‌. right? They will give you a complex.
At the time, I knew it was good advice, but I wasn't quite ready to take it. I was still at the sucking-in-wedding-inspiration-with-a-straw point. In fact, I might have been mainlining wedding images into my veins. But whatever, it was TOTALLY HEALTHY, and I DID NOT HAVE A PROBLEM, thanks. I was reading wedding blogs, I was buying wedding magazines, I was under the impression that I needed to maintain some sort of physical wedding "binder," whatever that was, and even though I was very unclear what I was supposed to be putting into it, I was carefully sticking in images and forms and the like. I was on the job.
But then, one day, something changed. I noticed that 9 out of every 10 wedding blogs/magazines were not making me feel excited about our wedding, they were making me feel tired and overloaded and like I wasn't living up. Another white dress, another set of favors (and you know favors drive me over the edge), another set of bridesmaid dresses. So I decided, I was going to take East Side's advice, as an experiment, and stop. I took every wedding blog that didn't make me feel excited and engaged off my reader. Done.
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Dress, Offered
Mar
2009
If I know one thing, it's that kindness begets kindness. After my post last week on community I got this email from Erika, who's wedding you'll remember from the fall:
Cutting to the chase, I want to give away my wedding dress. I know there are a number of charities through which I could do this, or I could try to sell it here in New York, but today I stumbled upon the idea of offering it up to Team Practical.
I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy from your post today about the community you've helped to create, and from Cate Subrosa's post too. And today is my six-month wedding anniversary (yeah!) and I guess all of these things together got this crazy idea in my head that maybe someone else in this community would want to wear the dress. Our wedding day was extraordinarily joyful, and so I think the dress might carry some pretty great karma too.
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A Practical Wedding Turns One
Mar
2009
Happy blog birthday to me!* And just as important, happy blog birthday to you. I tend to dream big, but this blog has grown into something even better then my best dream, and it never would have without each of you bringing your smart and savvy selves here. I'm love that I have this happy safe (wedding) universe where I feel accepted and empowered. I'm a much more sane bride/person then I would be without you.I found this Tom Robbins passage this week, and it perfectly expresses my experience of writing this blog:
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Sponsored Post: MagnetStreet Weddings
Mar
2009
Remember back when we talked about MagnetStreet Weddings? They make chic and affordable little magnets for Save The Dates, or even casual wedding invitations. It's funny, because while I love crafty conceptual Save The Dates, in real life its the wee adorable magnets that stick with us the longest. We pin something to our fridge with a save the date magnet and think, "Oh, remember when they got married? Oh, remember what happened with the cocktail hour and... oh... those were good times." Which is all a fancy way to say, guests love these magnets, they really do.
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Do Not Lose Sight Of The Goal
Mar
2009
Go read this right now. I was crying by the end. True and smart and exactly how I feel. This is why we get married, not for the matching stationary or the dress or even for the really fun party.
Eyes on the prize.
