the renegade bride

Louise, the Thirty Something Bride, so kindly featured our e-sesh on her blog, as well as a little interview I did with her. It’s an awesome feature, and if you’re not already following the Thirty Something Bride, what’s wrong with you?!? Get on it!

I know it’s pretty hypocritical for me to want the wedding & honeymoon of my dreams and yet not want to deal with the high-dollar price tag attached, but I’m a bride and when you’re a bride, you get a few things:

1. The right to bitch, moan, and otherwise complain about everything, from the 7.50 per piece appetizer bite thing to the fact that my thighs wobble whenever I walk around naked and there’s NO WAY I’m going to be bikini-ready

2. The right to have random mood swings and cry or laugh uncontrollably at whatever I want

3. The right to be a general pain in the neck at all times.

That being said, I’m going to freely use all the rights as I talk about our gorgeous honeymoon. It’s a beautiful thing, and we’ve just made all the honeymoon type decisions, so like a dutiful bridal blogger, allow me to share:

We are going to be spending six fun filled days on the beautiful island of Kauai. I fear I will always have to spell check this garden island, but whatev…It’s a lovely place, with lots of beaches and scenery scenicness for us to enjoy. Ok, ok, fine, so I really don’t know anything about Kauai yet. We asked our travel agent where we should go and she suggested Kauai and the only real decisions we’ve made is that we’re going there and that we’re staying at this resort, which I happen to know a lot about: the Outrigger Waipouli Beach Resort

It has awesome kitchens! With Sub Zero refrigerators, which I find oddly exciting. Our room has 898 square feet, which is bigger than some of the houses we’ve looked at. I wanted a partial ocean view room, but it was just all the more expensive.

Someone other than me made this fabulous montage of all the fun involved there:

It looks pretty swanky.  I did some googling and found out that there’s a heated pool with slides (I’m such a child!) and they have a cocktail hour every evening. Nice. And I know that we are going to have a convertible. This is not our car, but an artist’s rendition:

I’m not really sure about anything else. I know I ought to go about educating myself, but I have to get the pesky invitations done and figure out my flowers and all that stuff, and I feel like a total slacker on my own wedding, which is disconcerting. I think that’s the stress (or possibly the cold medicine) talking. instead of making me a machine of productivity, stress makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry a lot.  When I get to that point, I think of that convertible and that the resort has fancy kitchens, and somehow things are better.

I think I ought to look into what we are going to do while on this magical island, but I think it’s cool if I do that in April, right?

I have been working like a slave on our wedding save the dates & the wedding website. I originally thought it would be brilliant to make one of those cute little videos like the Geico commercials via Xtranormal.

I (no joke) spent about seventy million years on this project. I tried to make it as cool as possible, but in the end, it was just…well, lame. It was totally lame. I realized a few things: 1. I am not an animator, no matter how hard I try, 2. My character looks like a total princess slut, and 3) Who on earth has the patience to make a GOOD one of these videos?

Our video, in case you wanted to see it:

I got left with a dilemma: what to do about Save the Dates? I had to get on the ball (and I had already made a printed version for our Nashville wedding, which we totally ditched. They looked like this):

But since we are not doing that anymore, I had to come up with another idea. I originally thought I’d letterpress or gocco save the dates. But with a general lack of time, crazy schedules, and a lack of initiative (yeah, I suck) I decided to instead just make an e-save the date. Tacky? Maybe…but we have so few invitees that I figured it would be ok, and that emily post would not roll over too much in her grave. I also simplified our wedding website and went with one from Wedding Jojo (fab!) and the e-save the date came from Cocodot.com — and they are running a special this month: free sign up. They have some cute stuff, and one that fit our overall aesthetic (yay!) so I went with it.

I feel relatively accomplished. I’m a bit disappointed with myself that I didn’t manage to actually get anything printed, but I truly hope that my guests don’t hate me for it…I promise to make it up to them with the invites.