I plan on walking down the aisle barefoot. And when I do have to wear shoes, they will likely be a pair of pimped out converse or a pair of fun ass flats. Doing a garden wedding and battling a pair of heels sinking into the grass sounds awful. Plus, nothing beats soft spring grass between your toes.
Doug and I also want him and the groomsmen to wear Converse shoes. There was a great article in Craft mag about creating your own custom Cons by swapping out the canvas part of the shoe. Dress shoes definitely put Doug off. I don't even think he currently owns a pair of dress shoes. It seems so weird for him to smash his feet into some awkwardly uncomfortable pair of shoes he would never wear otherwise.
One thing I am trying to stick to is staying true to who we are and what we want and not letting what the wedding industry says dictate what we have to do at our wedding. It gets difficult at times. All the gorgeous pictures of lush floral arrangements and great table settings. I am a designer and so this whole thing is a huge design exercise for me. I can't help but want to design every aspect of the wedding experience. Not to mention I have read tons of magazines that say I should be looking into facial peels and oxygen treatments in the months leading up to the wedding and all sorts of stuff. Or that I should have chair covers and specialty china... tens of thousands of dollars later you end up with a ton of guests who can't remember what the hell any of your china even looked like. It is all about picking and choosing what matters most I guess. I have to admit though, it gets easier and easier to take what I thought I was going to do myself and just fork over money to have someone else do it. The biggest factor in all of this is time and resources. A lot of stuff like decoration I can't do on my own on my wedding day. I would love to go pick up bouquets from the farmers market and set it all up myself but I just can't. Mobot is a public space so the turn around time to set up is only a couple hours before the actual event. In retrospect, it would have been nice to pick a place where I could have gone in and set up the night before. The more I read as well, a lot of people say don't do your own flowers. I can totally see why. I have been reading a lot about them and they are very time and temperature sensitive. It would totally be my luck for everything to wilt by the next day not to mention how would I transport all of it. Another thought was forget a florist, and just have trees or potted plants as the centerpieces that can then function as favors for the guests. But pricing them out turned out to be nearly as expensive as a florist and I would have to set it all up myself which, again, wouldn't work.
I wish I had more time to figure all of this out as well. I obviously work and don't have a lot of free time to read,research and resource.I worry that if I put off booking a florists because I think I will have the time to do the decor myself, and then I run out of time, I will have nothing. Vendors book up insanely fast and it would be my luck to realize last minute I don't have the time to make or do X and then scramble to find someone only to find out everyone is booked. Not to mention I picked mother's day weekend which means florists take fewer events because of the holiday need for flowers.
Wow, this shoe conversation totally turned into a lengthy post of me mostly whining about the flower situation. It will all work itself out I am sure. I am super excited about everything, just trying to pick and choose my battles as wisely as one who has never planned a wedding before can. Anyways, enjoy the weekend! I am heading up-north to Kung Fu retreat. A full weekend of practice and meditation. Hopefully I will have pictures to share next week.
So the box isn't edible... but the chocolates inside the handmade boxes I will be making will be. Doug and I have discussed making a personalized pattern for our wedding that I can print or silkscreen and create these handmade boxes from. It would be fun to include a little message on the inside of the box as well underneath the chocolates. Or I might punk out and buy some fun paper and then create a tag to hang from the box that designating the guest's name and table number. Since I am going to be creating the birds for the favors, I think the namecards should be something edible. Between the boxes, the birds and the terra cotta votives, I have my work cut out for me! I am very excited to get my hands dirty making stuff for the wedding. I also am starting a glassblowing class next weekend at CCS (where I got my BFA). Who knows what else I will get inspired to create for the wedding.
