Burgers. That's right. Burgers.

I might have mentioned this before, but I want this wedding to be very casual. I picture a family picnic/barbecue. Sco's fine with that as long as it's also "brilliant" as he likes to say. The "brilliant picnic" concept is slowly evolving. I've relinquished the idea of picnic blankets instead of chairs for the reception. My sister brought up that I'll have to have chairs anyway for the ceremony and the reception will be in the same location. She pointed out that it's a little weird to have the ceremony without chairs and that for the reception, "there will be old people there! Do you think that old people want to sit on friggin' blankets?!?" Thank you, dear sister.
So, food. I'm still hung up on hamburgers. I like them. A lot. I'll have veggie options and maybe some chicken, too. I've found a few examples (like this one on Style Me Pretty) of burgers and fries done brilliantly, so I think it can be done by us, too.

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Excrutiating

I did it. I started a bridal registry. I went to the gym on Saturday, and feeling all energized, went to Bed Bath and Beyond (heretofore referred to as B3 because the name is so effing long). I didn't take Sco with me because he was working very hard all weekend. Everyone seemed very excited when I said I wanted to start a bridal registry (I talked to about 4 people while waiting a couple minutes for the "specialist" to come to the front.) "Oh, fun stuff!" was said a couple of times. Yeah, well, it wasn't that fun for me. The girl was very nice. She seemed nervous and even said that she gets nervous and to please bear with her. I think she was trained to give you the hard sell on all kinds of stuff like china and curtains and stuff, but luckily, I think she was too nice to push too hard. She really wanted to give me a tour of the store and take me through each section, scanning things along the way. I think I was too nice to push too hard to make it go faster. I wasn't prepared to pick out china or sheets or towels or even a toaster. Plus, Sco and I are both over 30 - we don't need that much stuff. I just beeped a couple of things, but it took 2 hours. I now have 20 items on my registry. I hadn't eaten, I was tired and this was how I was spending my Saturday night. Beeping things in my sweaty gym clothes. I called Sco on the way home and said, "Well. It's done. I went through the torture so you that you don't have to because I love you." Now, we can hopefully just go in, grab a scanner and scan without an escort. Or better yet, do it online from home.

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This might be it...

Happy new year!!
So... this might be the dress... It's from J.Crew - on sale! Woohoo! It's much simpler than the options I was considering initially. I might still stick a big fabric flower on it somewhere, but it's pretty awesome as is. I would have posted pictures of me in it, but they didn't turn out that well...

Front:


and the back:


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Um, this bride is unavailable... as are most.

Apparently, Mallikarjuna is from India and "looking for a bride for marriage." If anyone can help him out, please do. He seems to be confused and is definitely looking for love in all the wrong places. Tip: If a girl is blogging about planning her wedding, she's likely not interested in marrying some dude in India just because he posted a comment on said blog.

From now on, comments will be monitored and are subject to approval before posting to the blog. Sorry, Mallikarjuna. Better luck next time.

Maybe this is why I haven't gotten anything done...

I found another bride-to-be who's slacking for at least one of the reasons I am, too. Though I'm only getting started on this time-suck.


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Save the dates

I had my finger on the trigger ready to send flowers and wedding clip art and a sweet photo of me and Sco... Then, at the last second, we decided to go with this...

It's very us, I think.

Save the Dates

Ok, I know I haven't posted since August. I'm not a very good (read obsessive) bride, I guess. So, I'm finally going to send out the Save the Date notices today. This will be done via email!! I am trying to save money, trees, time, unnecessary shipping of stuff, the world, etc. I also can't stand reading about Save the Dates on all these bridal sites - they often call them STDs for short. Ew. They say things like "Ha ha ha! I'm giving everyone my STDs today!" Gross.