Well, try as we might to avoid it, there is some wedding planning we have to do. Sigh. We put it off as long as we could, but this past week we actually started doing some things. It’s about time, since the wedding is now three months away

The best part is that we get to have the small, intimate wedding that we want, and we can make it come together relatively easily and without running up credit card bills that will take us years to pay off.

We’ve narrowed down our invitation choices, and will be ordering them later this week once we make a final decision on the dinner reception site.

I’ve picked a florist, and a bakery for the cake.

The next big decision is a photographer. There is no way in hell we are paying $500 for some jackass to boss us around all day, and then anally rape us by giving us, like 5 pictures and an album of proofs, and then charge us even more for extra pictures.

We have decided to register. I was really unsure about doing this – like I mentioned before we don’t need very many things. I thought about the honeymoon/travel agency idea, but that won’t really work for us because we are going to have a pretty simple honeymoon.

I guess the main reason I didn’t want to register was because it didn’t seem right, etiquette wise. I felt like the only people who should be getting us wedding presents were those invited to the wedding. And that is our immediate family – like 10-15 people. They really don’t need a registry to pick things out for us.

But then one of my coworkers informed me they are in fact going to throw me a bridal shower, whether I like it or not. I almost cried when she told me that, because I thought it was so sweet. I figured with a small guest list, and my matron of honor living in Pittsburgh, we’d just skip that part.

She told me they were all fine with not being invited to the wedding, but they are happy for us and want to show us that. I really appreciated that, and she’s right, for the most part everyone has been really respectful of our decision to have a small wedding, and if they were disappointed about it, they kept it to themselves. For the most part.

I did try to suggest a lingerie shower, but before I could even open my mouth, she said “No lingerie shower, you are just going to have to register”.

Then when I thought about Jerrad’s mom, aunt, and maybe grandma being there, I realized I do not want to open a bunch of lingerie in front of them.

Also, I changed our wedding page a little bit, and hopefully later today I’ll update it and in the next few days we’ll have a registry linked to it as well. I’m too lazy to link it, just look us up on the knot.

Tags: The Wedding, wedding planning, wedding websites

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