Comments on: Michelle and Andrew’s Santa Cruz Celebration

By: Al_Pal

Al_Pal — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:29:41 +0000

Awesome. Really cool party, venue, dress.
Santa Cruz is a 'county in the running' for when we get married…but we don't have time to plan yet, so I'm just enjoying some blogs here and there. :D

By: Kat, Hip Librarian of the Future

Kat, Hip Librarian of the Future — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:21:33 +0000

This is fabulous. I am in the early stages of planning a SC Mountains wedding for next year, and I am leaning heavily towards Highlands Park or Quail Hollow Ranch, which was how I stumbled upon this blog entry. I just wanted to applaud you for such an awesomely thrifty, simple, yet really special event. This is exactly the kind of wedding I want to have, and while I know it will take lots of DIY effort (which is my style anyways), it's really inspiring to see that it CAN be done right in this area for a reasonable amount of money. Thanks so much for sharing this.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:14:33 +0000

This is such an inspiring wedding. I am (gulp!)just starting the planning process and this makes a lovely wedding seem possible on a smallish budget! Thanks for sharing.

By: cr

cr — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:32:39 +0000

Oh, I just love this wedding…the dress, the details, the setting it's all so beautiful!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:49:54 +0000

Sure thing. The program is called Poladroid, and after converting the photos, I had them printed at Walgreen's as 4x6es, then cut them down to size.

By: Georgie

Georgie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:55:43 +0000

Hi Michelle

Any chance you could share the name of the web program you used for the polaroid pictures??

Lovely wedding BTW.

By: marrying a carpenter...

marrying a carpenter... — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:17:35 +0000

what a beautiful wedding… i truly enjoyed reading about it.

By: KittyMeow

KittyMeow — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:30:28 +0000

Oh. My. God. Michelle, yours is the most perfect wedding ever!

Your dress! Wow! And all the casual happiness of the day :-D

If I were ever to get married, I would follow the same thinking as you - "Do we really NEED it?"

I hope your future is happy and full of love :-D

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:43:32 +0000

Thanks, Meg, for featuring us! And thank you all for your wonderful compliments. My 70 year old aunts will be thrilled to hear that you all loved my dress as much as I did. They'll probably say, "Of course" and then laugh all in sync like they do.

As for the budget, it may help to know that my original budget was half what we spent, and it's taken me awhile to stop telling myself that I really could have gone without this or that.

But in the end, we were okay with what we spent because it made sense for us. I couldn't pull my wedding off for $2,000, but I was totally inspired by the ideas of someone who did. And it did help me to know that it was possible to come in under average.

Despite going over my budget, up in front of my loved ones with my one someone, money and practicality didn't cross my mind. I was just enjoying that moment and that warm, tingly feeling. Every time I look back at the photos, I get it again. You can't really put a price on that.

And for MaryKate, my dress was a modified version of McCall's M5001.

By: Emmalinda

Emmalinda — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:08:56 +0000

"being grounded doesn't have a price tag."

amen, meg.