"it will sound just like the world cup..."

...did i mention that kazoos were out?

I'm discovering more and more about dave during this whole wedding process....like that he is way more practival and also traditional than i thought.

he said that it would be noisy, and ruin any type of video anyone might be taking. Good Point.

He thinks flowers are a much more suitable idea for centerpieces than anything...even though something quirky and fun might be more up our alley and also budget...

its funny, the things you find out about a person when planning a wedding....


onward!


OH ALSO! One of my best friends from elementary school and beyond, Francine, has also recently become engaged to her boyfriend, Kevin. She is one of the original hosts of the fictious franson and looloo show, and a good freaking time. I think i have had more inside jokes with her than anyone else ever, combined.Congratulations! Summer of love V.2 is on its way!

shameless begging.....

give me money because im pretty sure we arent going to be able to afford to get married next year. or at least we can downgrade from jacques to peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches in tre keelen's parking lot.

awesome idea....

Obviously I'm dreaming more than doing.So one of my dreams came today while i was watching a community re-run. (on a side note if you have never seen this show on NBC, starring joel mchale, ken jeong, and chevy chase...you are MISSING OUT!) The intro to the show, is one of those fortune teller/cootie catcher thingy jobs with everyone's name and doodles and stuff...

and it dawns on me that in school, when you folded one of those properly, you could also then fold it in half...and possibly "tent" it, to resemble a folded escort card!

I figured if there were averaged 10 people to a table, we could come up with 10 different sets of questions, so everyone at each table would have a different cootie catcher set. but im not coming up with 200 different ones...eff that!

I was thinking we could do fun questions, things about dave and i, and random other crap.

AND THE BEST PART IS! i asked dave if he like that idea,and if he thought it was half-moronic,and he laughed and said something about it not being completely moronic. but that he didn't. and as we know, in the land of
Dave, and I, and our silly lil wedding, that is just as good as a "yes."

BAM!


SO! Random person, at random table, you will be playing with random questions!!! YAY! FUN!

THESE ARE OUR SPECTACULAR INVITES!

yeah. i designed this invite using zazzle.supercheap and also way more awesome than anything i found in catalogues o on the rest of the interweb. i also created stamps, because personalized stamps are a badass touch. the other side of this invite is white and features a lil' logo that i'm putting on the stamps as well as some other stuff. Also on zazzle, i created the response cards out of a postcard template, so that eliminates the need for an envelope. awesome. oh, and any invites or cards you design on zazzle will come with envelopes.

oh, and if you notice....the font with our names is WICKED. its scripty and scribbly and the i's are dotted with x's. which is really tough.

While browsing the site, i also started to think that i might make coordinating escort cards or whatever for the seating at the reception. hooray!
and WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE! I LOVE SAVING MONEY!...as previously indicated.


"ted, have you been reading my blog?"barney, how i met your mother.

decisions, decisions,...

I really never knew that finding a dress was going to be this difficult, but then you have to factor in 4 important things about my style and personality:

1.I wear A LOT of black,....which is cool like, any other day...but i think there are some traditions i don't want to mess with. I don't want to be showing my grandkids our wedding album, and regretting not sticking with something more traditional.

2. I.HATE.SPENDING.MONEY....i mean i don't HATE IT hate it...but i hate spending money i don't have. and i DO NOT have much money.and gowns are like......expensive.

3. I am extraordinarily clumsy. if i grab something too poofy, I'll probably spill something on it. If i get one with a long train, ill probably trip on it...

4. I'm super indecisive....so trying to factor in all of these things about myself...petty redonculous....


So, I don't want to spend an asston of money on something I'm most likely going to rip, spill something on, or that I'm not completely sure that I LOVE. there are dresses that I have found that i adore, but I don't know if they are appropriate for a wedding. And seriously, when the hell am I gonna get the chance to wear something super fluffy and girly again? Let's be serious!

However,I think I'm going to go ahead and make a purchase. I am in the process of researching some custom-made dealy-jobs across the interwebs and e-bay, and
I really think I found something that is traditional, classy, modern and kinda super awesome at the same time.

So, within the next month I intend to go ahead and purchase my gown. Shortly after, I will be designing and purchasing save the dates. Before the summer is over, you know, once I have a van, I will be setting up appointments for my girls to try on and pick out their bridesmaid dresses!!! Holy shit! this ball is ROLLING!!!!


dude, I'm thrilled.

i want to get chocolate wasted!

FIRST OF ALL...congratulations to one of my main bitches, Lorraine and her new fiance Mike on their engagement! THey are getting married about a month and a half before us and i couldnt be happier. Lorraine is awesome, one of my co-bridesmaids, and Mike is totally a rad dude.We get to do squealy girly wedding things!!!

I was thinking, about my own wedding, that i should try top be awesome and save money at the same time, because being awesome and saving money are 2 of my favorite things.And a way to incorporate centerpieces and favors, seem like a fun way to do that, be awesome and save money.

So how does everyone feel if i get crazy-awesome Halloween candy bowls,like this one, or this one, or that one.....hahaha!!! Wait, whatttttttttt? anyway.... I wanted a candy bar anyway which is kind of unnecessary. I was wracking my braaaaaaaain trying to still do it, stay awesome,and maybe thrown in some halloween...

anyway what I'm getting at is, if i get a bunch of pillowcases (inspired by trick or treating), and personalize them (D+L, the date and some other sentiment on it, dye them, blah) people can take the candy from the bowl, and BAM! centerpiece favors. I'm also going to have different candies at different tables, and i'm hoping this will encourage people to mingle and (fingers crossed) say TRICK OR TREAT!!! when they go to the tables.

...don't worry, I'm probably going to throw in fanncy shotglasses, or souvenir CDs or something.Let's not forget, it will be all aspects of fun...and i like to dance around while I'm doing shots and chasing them with milky ways.

<3
whatcha think?

There will Be Doves and flowers ALL OVER THIS BITCH!

Ok. So i like to troll around awesome blogs, and read awesome books and google awesome things when it come to this wedding. (for example, my own personal mecca, offbeat bride. look into it.) And i also liek to think, that Dave and I are a little more entertaining and unique than your average couple getting married. I mean, on a day that started out with me having a revenge margarita and buying mouthwash on the way to the Family Values tour, it ended with us buying metal rings at a 2 for $25 jewelry booth and Dave in no other words telling me we were getting married.

We are badass, dammit! And i think we are better and more creative than freaking doves, and eternity symbols that are actually hearts, or precious moments figurines... thats just not us. So i have been wracking my brain trying to come up with creative, cheap (and not chintzy) things that scream "DAVE AND LINDA! LOVE! AWESOMENESS! MARRIAGE! FAMILY! BABIES! HOOORAYYYY!!!!".

Which brings me to where I am at right now. Right now, I am googling pictures o vintage wrestling posters. You know, the one advertising the matches when the local shows were the big thing....with the pictures, the wrestler names and nicknames and exciting words and fun yayness. So I was showing Dave the pictures and he was like,"cool." "whatever." ...I will give him points for tearing himself away from his droid for 5 seconds, so that means he cared enough to do that. which was cool.

I asked him what he might want his wrestler nickname to be, because that is also cool, along the lines of "classy" freddie blassie, "the mach man" randy savage, "big sexy" kevin nash...and he seems to be the most uninterested person ever. man seriously?

i threatened precious moments and doves, and he said the words "fuck no." so, i'm counting that as input and thats the end of that.


I'm doing it myself and making up our own nicknames.

any ideas? MILF for me, and DIRTY for dave, are out.