WEDDING DIARIES // 1

Next September, 2016, I'm getting married (who, me?).  And so, as all future brides in this modern age now do, I've been perusing Pinterest like it's NOBODY'S BUSINESS.  I definitely know the aesthetic I want to go for; think very bohemian meets art deco meets I'm on a serious budget crunch.  I am on the biggest mission to throw a beautiful, totally "me" wedding while saving the most amount of money possible.  The biggest money-saver,I've read, is location location location, as any stuffy businessman will also tell you.  Living in North Dakota, there honestly are not many absolutely fantastic wedding venues to choose from, nor do I want to spend the cash on the ones that we do have around.  So here are a couple of options that I've chosen:

A park
Depending on what the weather will be like in September, I'm certainly swooning over an outdoor, lakeside wedding.  Well, ok, maybe it is a manmade lake (a reservoir if you will), but picture perfect nonetheless.  My worry?  Passers-by.  There's really no way to control who comes and goes from a public park.  That's why the park that I've been looking at has the option to rent our whole sections.  The best part?  It's in small town North Dakota!  Is there such a thing as, um, not small town North Dakota?  Anyway, this means that the price will be substantially cheaper than other traditional wedding venues.

My Parent's House
My mother was recently grilling me about the wedding.  I mean, c'mon woman, it's a year and a half away, RELAX.  But during this grill-session, she made the greatest offer a mother can: to have the wedding at my paren't house.  Being I'm from small town North Dakota (again, there's such a thing as not?), majority of families live out in the country.  Now, I know what you're probably thinking, farm.  But, no no, my father is by far not a farmer.  He's a geeky engineer.  Being that he is, he built a beautiful house that we moved into in 2007 that is HUGE.  With an even more HUGE front yard.  A beautiful sunny day, wearing a flowing lace wedding dress, taking pictures in the woods that I grew up in?  That sounds like it's straight my from girlhood wedding dreams.

Right now, I've yet to make any finite decisions, mostly because the thought of planning a wedding solely by myself makes me a bit nauseous and gives me a headache.  I know, I don't need to do this on my own, I could ask family and friends and so on, but I'm the kind of person who trusts no one else, SO I'M ON MY OWN, OK?!

Here's to wedding planning!