Blissfully Engaged

Badgley Mischka

Monique Lhuillier

Christian Dior

Vera Wang

It has been months since my last post. My excuse: I got engaged; You may be thinking I have spent every dripping waking moment planning my nuptials, but I haven't. We don't even have an official date. We have decided on a long blissful engagement. An engagement filled with love, laughter, fights and trips to foreign countries. The date - date we are thinking late spring 2013. Yes, I said 2013. 

Don't think this 18 month waiting period has slowed down the wedding planning. My mind and I already have the whole shindig planned. From the flowers to to the flavor of cake. (Red velvet, cream cheese frosting yuuuum). I have tried to include my lovely, handsome fiancée in these planning adventures with little success. I get responses like "Oh yeah, and when is this wedding?" and "Sounds pretty. Who's getting married?" or, my personal favorite: "Sounds great, babe, but I'm thinking a 

dinosaur themed wedding!" It is all in good fun, but I am beginning to wonder why the date had to be "next, next summer." 2012 anyone? Truth is I think being engaged is fabulous and am in no rush to get to the serious planning - the planning that includes money and the saving of it.

My wedding daydreams have taken me to the cliffs of fashion excellence and luxury and I have learned something surprising about myself. I thought I was going to be a regal bride, like Grace Kelley. I thought I was going to be a diva bride like Kim Kardashian. But it turns out I am more of the rustic-romantic bride. I am thinking lace, candles, wood and green trees surrounding us. I am thinking dancing to Bruce Springsteen and Louis Armstrong barefoot under the stars with my husband while our guests eat Italian tapas with their hands and indulge on champagne. And there will be buckets of champagne!

This made me realize how special and personal a wedding is. From the font on the wedding invitation, to the color of the bow tying the bridal bouquet together. It is going to be our day.

A wedding being so personal made it hard for me to make my usual, and sometimes snooty fashion opinions. I couldn't say I hate this type of wedding dress or this color is an absolute wedding don't. That should be the brides choice. And all the bridesmaids and mothers of the world should respect that. It is probably going to be on of the most exciting and exhilarating decisions. One I can't wait to make.

That being said the pictures I posted are designs from the bridal heavy weights of the fashion world. A wise man once said, "You want pasta, you go Little Italy; You want wedding you go Wang" and it is hard to argue with Mr. Anthony Marentino.