Wedding ideas & inspiration
Get ideas and inspiration for your wedding ceremony and reception.
Get ideas and inspiration for your wedding ceremony and reception.
I talk a lot on here (well, you knew that – but specifically) about finding ways to bring your personality into your wedding day and making it feel like you.
I’ve spoken about bringing some personality into your invitation wording, your boutineers, your wedding send-off, your table plan, even your cake topper. But I haven’t spoken about the easiest and most natural way to bring some fun and some personality to your wedding: having a ceremony reading.
To make up for this truly grevious oversight, I’m running a whole Wednesday Wedspiration mini-series on ideas for non-traditional – and non-sappy – wedding readings: long readings, short readings, readings from children’s books, readings most definitely not from children’s books, and – what we’re kicking off with today – romantic wedding readings that aren’t cheesy.
I’ll be talking to real couples about the lessons they learned in planning their weddings – and what pitfalls they want you to avoid!
And, since I’ll be asking everyone to talk about the less than perfect parts of their day, it’s only fair I go first!
Hi. I’m Mell. And these are the best decisions I made for my wedding – and the worst.
We’re doing something a little different for this week’s Wednesday Wedspiration. Instead of looking at (really fantastic) examples of how other couples have done their (really fantastic) button holes and bouquets, we’re looking at pictures from one (really fantastic) wedding – and from a new feature we’re starting on the blog this Saturday!
Carrying on from last week’s Wednesday Wedspiration, where we looked at 48 (absolutely freaking gorgeous) alternatives to diamond rings, this week we’re looking at engagement rings that are similar to diamonds in everything but the price tag.
Diamonds are the (not-so-well-kept) dirty secret of the wedding industry.
Everyone knows diamonds aren’t worth the price tag. Everyone knows a single company has a monopoly on diamond mines and has artificially inflated the cost of diamonds. And everyone knows the high costs have caused problems, with diamonds being used to finance things you probably don’t want the sweet announcement of your everlasting love to finance.
But everyone shrugs it off. Everyone thinks it sucks but it’s just how it is. Everyone thinks they don’t have another choice for an engagement ring.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to your other choice: it’s called every other gemstone, ever.
No matter how carefully you plan your wedding, your guests will miss something; I didn’t know my cousin had a guest book at his wedding. There were two exits, and it was positioned by the one I never used. My cousin didn’t know I had a guest book at my wedding because it was in the ceremony room, not the room we spent most of the day in. (Or he was passive-aggressively getting his own back… Unsure which.)
But, no matter what else they miss (or passive-aggressively pretend to), every guest is going to see your table plan. So you need a plan you can be proud of.