Weddingments! Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall?

Holy moly! We’re getting married in less than 6 months!

When we first started talking about weddings we both wanted to get married in the FALL. Fall is a lovely time of the year and we can have an outdoor wedding with tents and a pavilion and pumpkins and mums…and gorgeous deep red, yellow, orange, brown accents everywhere. Simple, yet lovely. Oh and if it could involve a barn too…wheeee! (Similar to what my dear friends Mary/Rob had for their wedding!) I called Becker Farms over the SUMMER when we started planning what we might want and at that time they already had all of 2012 booked! Um…ok. I called Beaver Hollow Conference Center ($$$$$) and checked and found out they only had two dates left for 2012.

Then our engagement happened FOR REAL and September/October 2012 felt soooooooooo far away. Could we really wait an entire year to get married? We want kiddos and to start a family. Would we do this before we got married? What if it takes a while? What if we can’t have children? What if we CAN have children and I’m 9.1 months pregnant at the wedding? (Uh, hell…no.) Maybe we should rethink this?

WINTER! I love love love winter the very very most! And if I had to imagine any sort of a wedding as a little girl it would have been one in the winter during the best week of the year (from Christmas Eve—Birthday—New Years!) Linda Lu/Bob had a gorgeous intimate wedding on Christmas Eve Eve and my friends Jen/Nick had a kickass New Years Eve wedding at Pearl Street…maybe??? Once upon a time I thought the Hyatt downtown for New Years Eve by the ball drop would be wonderful. And then I started planning events as part of my job and realized the VERY last thing in the world I would ever want would be a wedding at a hotel. Just not my style. Don’t want to be locked in to a caterer and menu options. Want a more casual carefree original type set up…something more conducive to say the Central Terminal, but for the fact that the Central Terminal isn’t heated so weekends are limited.

And then there’s the fact that winter is you know, in a few short weeks! (At the time…) Any winter wedding would have to be very, very tiny to be logistically something we wanted which was in direct opposition to the idea that we wanted a HUGE wedding surrounded by as many people we love as possible…my wee brain got a thinking.

Why not have a double secret underground wedding? We could get married on our one year date anniversary  December 15th! We can hire Rich & Alyssa from Nickel City Studios (lovelovelovethem!) to photograph the two of us at Old Fort Niagara and in front of the penguins at the Aquarium of Niagara and maybe in front of our Christmas Tree where we would invite someone to our home to get married. JUST THE TWO OF US. And then we can still plan the EXACT same party but without the getting married part!!! One problem, He Who Makes Me Smile didn’t like that idea. He wants to see me in a pretty dress. He wants us to get married, in front of people.

Next?

SUMMER is out. I’M FLAT OUT MISERABLE IN THE HEAT. Not gonna happen.

I guess we are left with SPRING?

Spring.

Hmmm. Spring. Spring could work? Same sort of wedding as in the Fall except no pumpkins and hay bales. WAIT! My favorite flower is the daffodil? Maybe I could do daffodils? Yellow? Apple Green? Darn, daffodils are sort of an early flower though…maybe…daisies? My mom loves daisies and had them at her wedding to my dad. Yes! I GOT IT! GINGHAM! Red! Burlap! Daisies! Mason Jars! A SPRING WEDDING WEEKEND WILL BE PERFECT!

And so the Memorial Day Weekend was selected. And life was good. And SPRING WEDDING inspirations were pinned. And with every additional inspiration pinned and every conversation with the “ladies in red” continued…Weber Wedding Weekend became much more of a wedding AND an excellent party instead of just an excellent party. I’m still not personally keen on walking down any sort of an aisle and saying our vows on display. I feel that this is a very intimate part of our wedding and I’d prefer not having 400 people staring. Since we are choosing to have a LARGE wedding this means we will have a LARGE number of people…watching our every move. Or at least for those short as possible 5-10 minutes.

I envision vows something like this…

“I do, you do?”

“I do too.”

(Ceremonial sword blessing over our heads as we are pronounced Husband and Wife)

Kiss.

BOOM! CANNON!

(Cause fireworks are far too commonplace and oh yeah I’m marrying a re-enactor who has access to REAL CANNONS!)

Yay!

MARRIED!

PARTY!

But we will see how these plans go as the weeks continue. 🙂