Comments on: In Praise Of The Slow Wedding (And A Slow Life) http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/ Weddings. Minus the insanity, plus the marriage. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:20:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mandy http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2587 mandy Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:43:08 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2587 This was our wedding! We were actually engaged in Italy at Terra Madre, the international Slow Food 'gathering,' and were married this October. <br /><br />We had the teeniest, tiniest budget, but food and community were at the very top of our list of wedding priorities. We had 90 guests instead of 350 because we wanted to be able to afford good, local food at long tables where everyone could just. relax.<br /><br />Our day was a blur, too, but the happy kind, because we weren't rushing to hit every scheduled moment of the day. We married, then we ate and drank, then we danced or lounged. Then we went home, napped, and later packed our pub for the afterparty. Done & done.<br /><br />Word of caution: It DID take a lot of planning and details upfront to pull off such an easy breezy event! I was almost too slow in the planning, thinking it would all just come together, but am so glad I was brought to my senses. :) This was our wedding! We were actually engaged in Italy at Terra Madre, the international Slow Food 'gathering,' and were married this October.

We had the teeniest, tiniest budget, but food and community were at the very top of our list of wedding priorities. We had 90 guests instead of 350 because we wanted to be able to afford good, local food at long tables where everyone could just. relax.

Our day was a blur, too, but the happy kind, because we weren't rushing to hit every scheduled moment of the day. We married, then we ate and drank, then we danced or lounged. Then we went home, napped, and later packed our pub for the afterparty. Done & done.

Word of caution: It DID take a lot of planning and details upfront to pull off such an easy breezy event! I was almost too slow in the planning, thinking it would all just come together, but am so glad I was brought to my senses. :)

]]> By: Ms. Bunny http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2588 Ms. Bunny Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:23:42 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2588 This is an excellent post to end my day. The comparison between slow foods and a slow wedding is incredibly appropriate and another stroke of genius. <br /><br />I like deliberate choices and action, especially when it comes to valuing others for their skills and talents. Rushing to check things off a prescribed to do list lacks reflection. I'd much rather take things slow, enjoy the experience, and grew together as a couple as we learn things. I definitely believe this wedding planning experience will teach us extraordinary things about each other as we discover what is most meaningful to us. This is an excellent post to end my day. The comparison between slow foods and a slow wedding is incredibly appropriate and another stroke of genius.

I like deliberate choices and action, especially when it comes to valuing others for their skills and talents. Rushing to check things off a prescribed to do list lacks reflection. I'd much rather take things slow, enjoy the experience, and grew together as a couple as we learn things. I definitely believe this wedding planning experience will teach us extraordinary things about each other as we discover what is most meaningful to us.

]]> By: Meg http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2589 Meg Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:31:02 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2589 @P&P;<br />I knew it wouldn't be, lady. I was waiting for your comment, since I figured no one else would know to bring it up. Such a rush working to put the post out too ;)<br /><br />Though goodness knows the wedding wasn't rushed. And our food is slow because David makes it... @P&P;
I knew it wouldn't be, lady. I was waiting for your comment, since I figured no one else would know to bring it up. Such a rush working to put the post out too ;)

Though goodness knows the wedding wasn't rushed. And our food is slow because David makes it…

]]> By: Danielle http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2590 Danielle Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:34:02 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2590 This isn't really related to this post, but I wanted to share this great article from the Advocate:<br /><br />"13-Year-Old Testifies on NJ Marriage": http://advocate.com/Politics/Marriage_Equality/New_Jersey_Marriage_Testimony/ This isn't really related to this post, but I wanted to share this great article from the Advocate:

"13-Year-Old Testifies on NJ Marriage": http://advocate.com/Politics/Marriage_Equality/New_Jersey_Marriage_Testimony/

]]> By: agirl http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2591 agirl Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:01:03 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2591 Your posts often resonate strangely with what is going on my life at the time. Just this week my husband and I are taking a few days off, partly to remind ourselves to s l o w d o w n.<br /><br />I can think of a few very good, very slow days in my life so far, and I'm happy that our wedding is definitely among them. Your posts often resonate strangely with what is going on my life at the time. Just this week my husband and I are taking a few days off, partly to remind ourselves to s l o w d o w n.

I can think of a few very good, very slow days in my life so far, and I'm happy that our wedding is definitely among them.

]]> By: Peonies and Polaroids http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2592 Peonies and Polaroids Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:36:15 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2592 There is nothing worse than a rushed wedding, frantic is not something anyone wants to feel on their wedding day and not something I ever want to feel. Which is part of the reason we stay at weddings for 10 hours - No Rushing For Us Thank You. <br /><br />And the irony of you, Meg, the most busiest, bustliest, over-working person I know advocating a slow life is not lost on me. There is nothing worse than a rushed wedding, frantic is not something anyone wants to feel on their wedding day and not something I ever want to feel. Which is part of the reason we stay at weddings for 10 hours – No Rushing For Us Thank You.

And the irony of you, Meg, the most busiest, bustliest, over-working person I know advocating a slow life is not lost on me.

]]> By: Mrs T http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2593 Mrs T Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:23:39 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2593 Trying now to concentrate on the important bit and pieces and to hell with the rest. 22 days is too late to be stressing about things now! (I'm totally going to stress, who am I kidding?) Trying now to concentrate on the important bit and pieces and to hell with the rest. 22 days is too late to be stressing about things now! (I'm totally going to stress, who am I kidding?)

]]> By: Lyssachelle http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2594 Lyssachelle Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:28:26 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2594 YES! I pretty much start all my comments with that...I'm really not usually this agreeable, but when you're right you're totally right! <br /><br />And I would like to add, because it's something I would do due to me being about 3/4's crazy, but adopt this as your mantra, but don't force it. (does that make sense?) I was SO determined to be stress-free that I stressed myself out when it wasn't going that way and defeated the whole damn purpose. So don't do that with the slow wedding idea and be crazy like me. Just sayin'....<br /><br />And um, side-note, but Snippet & Ink helped me define exactly what I wanted my wedding to look like. I had no idea what we were going for and then I saw her "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" inspiration board and went, YES! THAT ONE.... In the end we didn't use the same colors, but the entire feel of it just made me fall in love. Actually, pretty much all of her boards make me want to crawl inside and live there for a little while. It's one of the only wedding blogs (besides this one!) that I still read and look forward to... YES! I pretty much start all my comments with that…I'm really not usually this agreeable, but when you're right you're totally right!

And I would like to add, because it's something I would do due to me being about 3/4's crazy, but adopt this as your mantra, but don't force it. (does that make sense?) I was SO determined to be stress-free that I stressed myself out when it wasn't going that way and defeated the whole damn purpose. So don't do that with the slow wedding idea and be crazy like me. Just sayin'….

And um, side-note, but Snippet & Ink helped me define exactly what I wanted my wedding to look like. I had no idea what we were going for and then I saw her "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" inspiration board and went, YES! THAT ONE…. In the end we didn't use the same colors, but the entire feel of it just made me fall in love. Actually, pretty much all of her boards make me want to crawl inside and live there for a little while. It's one of the only wedding blogs (besides this one!) that I still read and look forward to…

]]> By: Meg http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2595 Meg Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:54:12 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2595 @April<br />And ours really didn't. No blur, it was like time slowed down. I didn't slow down mind you, I was totally a blur that day, but I think the day slowed for us.<br /><br />@LosAngelesLove<br />Thank you. I had a dream last night that everyone hated the post, and it was low comment, so I thought my dream came true ;) (David thinks I have boring dreams. But he's not a blogger is he?) @April
And ours really didn't. No blur, it was like time slowed down. I didn't slow down mind you, I was totally a blur that day, but I think the day slowed for us.

@LosAngelesLove
Thank you. I had a dream last night that everyone hated the post, and it was low comment, so I thought my dream came true ;) (David thinks I have boring dreams. But he's not a blogger is he?)

]]> By: April http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2596 April Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:52:04 +0000 http://apracticalwedding.com/2009/12/in-praise-of-slow-wedding-and-slow-life/#comment-2596 Slow wedding movement. BRILLIANT. Because when you focus on slowing it down to what's authentic and true, it won't feel as if it went by in a blur. Slow wedding movement. BRILLIANT. Because when you focus on slowing it down to what's authentic and true, it won't feel as if it went by in a blur.

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