My husband and I recently watched 27 dresses, it’s a cute movie. It had me thinking about how important it is to make the right decision about who you marry (I know I did!) and it also made me appreciate how much more simple my wedding was than the girls who worry so much about everything being perfect and they spend a fortune (or their parents do) on a wedding dress, fancy bridal lingerie, reception and honeymoon.
My wedding dress was $150 and I did the alterations myself, Esme (my brother-in-law’s wife) lent me her tiara, my twin sister made the wedding invitations. My sister and friends took pictures. I will have to say though that my parents did throw together a very nice reception in British Columbia for us and we also had a fun open house in Tennesee that my in-laws had for us a few months later. I really didn’t care about everything being perfect because to me the marriage was so much more important than the wedding. I do wish that we went on a honeymoon though, it would have been nice to have gone on a nice vacation before having children.
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
My sister’s wedding last March wasn’t a wedding…it was a social event. She was so stressed out all the time. I agree with you…I love simple weddings.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 am
I remember trying on only 1 dress at a wedding shop. It was about $600 and I didn’t really like it. My mom was with me and I simply asked her if she would make my dress and she agreed. I think it wound up still costing about $300, mostly because of all the lace that was on it. But I loved the dress, even more because she made it.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:27 am
I didn’t buy the wedding dress…it’s not the culture over here, we rent 1st-hand wedding dress for photo shoots and the actual day itself. They always go by package price…usually from S$4000 to S$8000….
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 am
I think it would have been special if I made my own wedding dress but I only had a 2 month engagement and I was in school full time and working part time!
July 6th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Ya know, as crazy as it sounds, my wedding dress was not all that important to me. It was beautiful, and altered to fit me perfectly, and I had the shoes I wanted (tennis shoes, glammed up by me) and the veil I wanted (one that I did myself, and the other my sister let me borrow that was hers from her wedding) and all the works. But I was so much more interested in my husband and becoming his wife, nothing else really mattered to me.