Reflections on a Wedding

Monday, March 16, 2015



With less than 50 days until John and I tie the knot (again), I thought it was high time I share our progress and some of the things we've learned along the way.

One of the most interesting things about planning this celebration has been the realization of the shift in my personal aesthetic over the last few years. Those of you reading this blog for years have seen it, and anyone who visited our first Baltimore apartment knows how different our home looks now. My hyper-romantic style and John's modernist bent have blended into something traditional, classic and clean. My blog has changed over the years, too, and I think the latest incarnation of A Crimson Kiss represents my love of distilled elegance. 

So despite all the empirical evidence available to me about what we'd want our wedding to look like, it was a bit uncomfortable to declare in such a big, unchangeable, eternal way that this is us. Because you don't exactly get to redo letterpress invitations. And when I came home on Saturday night and discovered our gorgeous stationery suite waiting to be stamped and sent to our nearest and dearest, I felt such excitement and confidence – because it felt like seeing those years of blending our furniture, our families, and ourselves on paper. It was the best moment of wedding planning yet.


Image by Elisa Bricker, green and gray rose bouquet by Beehive Events.

4 comments:

  1. Distilled elegance. What a lovely turn of phrase. I'm reminded of a factoid I heard that as the cells in a human body regenerate, at the cellular level you are not the same person as a adult that you were as a child. Of course we know the same is true from an emotional standpoint as well. This also holds through adulthood. I am not the same woman in my thirties that I was in my twenties. Therefore, I just you permission to let go of this notion that your wedding must somehow make a statement about who you are at some unchanging, core level. If you are a healthy adult, you will change. The way you see the world will change; the way you are in relationships will change; and your tastes will change. Just focus on celebrating who you are today and leave the future to the future :-)

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    1. Christie, your advice is, as always, simply superb.

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  2. Less than 50 days, that's exciting! I happen to agree with you about tastes changing. If you would've asked me years ago what kind of wedding I wanted, I'd say something really big and fancy. Now I'm like, "All I need is some good food and my close friends and family!".

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    1. Isn't it amazing how our perspectives and priorities can shift so much? I think it's especially interesting to discover that they've changed while you weren't looking...but it sure threw me a bit!

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