So basically I'm engaged!
It’s been quite a while since it happened...June....and I've had writer’s block ever since. In the beginning I was obsessed. All I could do was read wedding blogs and wedding magazines. I bought a scrap book so I could create mood boards. I started a pinterest so I could create an ONLINE mood board. I learned the names of the best dress designers. I found out that lace was actually quite expensive. Who knew?
But mainly it was the wedding blogs I spent my time looking at. I'm only now just coming out of the wedding blog funk. I didn’t even know that wedding blogs existed before but there are blogs on everything. Dan read a beard blog yesterday and learned the best way to keep it trim. A BEARD BLOG. About BEARDS.
Maybe he’ll join a beard club now. I heard about them. Loads of men who have beards meet up and talk about their beards.
Anyways, who knew there were SO MANY wedding blogs? At first it was fascinating and I read loads of them. They’re basically a website that mainly features “real weddings”. Which is nice cos you think...oh great that wedding looks like it might have been cheap...I’ll copy! The “real weddings” are sent in by fancy pants photographers who charge FIFTEEN HUNDRED POUNDS to take photos of your special day. The blogger will say hi, isn’t this a nice wedding, doesn’t she have a nice veil...and then it’ll have all the photos with little quotes from the bride. After a while you think...err hello Mrs blogger you’re not doing ANY work and also your blog is full of typos and you don’t have a real job and you make money from your blog.
The blog will also have a random article every now and then about abortions or debt management and you think...GET OUT OF HERE it’s like when there’s an article about forced marriage in Marie Clair and you have to skip it cos you’re reading Marie Clair for the clothes, not the political messages. Actually, I think I only read Marie Clair once. It DID have an article about forced marriages though. you know what I'm talking about. This reminds me of the one and only time I ever watched Charmed and the main character was chatting about spells or something while putting some broccoli in a Tupperware and then microwaving it. I mentioned it to Hen one time and that was the only ever episode of Charmed that SHE had seen! Good times.
So yeah..the blog. Sometimes they also feature engagement shoots. Like that's a thing. an engagement shoot. People PAY a photographer to take photos of them in their normal clothes frolicking on the beach or a cliff. They're so cheesey and rank. But then I hate wedding photos altogether really so maybe I'm not a good litmus test.
Is that the right use of “litmus test” ?
The thing is....checking out those blogs every day started getting to be quite a lot to keep on top of. Like a chore. And then I started realising that the longer you spend looking at them, eventually the same cycle of weddings passes before your eyes. Country wedding with bunting. Art deco wedding with fur stole. Fancy hotel wedding. East London trendy wedding. Country wedding with bunting. Art deco wedding with fur stole.
And you start to feel sick every time someone’s got a Jenny Packham dress. Which, because of all my obsession and research I KNOW they cost 3 fucking grand.
And you stop coveting everyone else’s wedding and think...hey MINE is the best. And isn’t that the most important lesson of all?
Also...if one more person asks me if I'm a “bridezilla” I'm going to eat them.
Ciao!
