#259 venting....and looking for ideas

I've been reading other blogs, and I agree with a few of them, I really prefer being annoyomous in my blog. And todays post will be a good example of why. This last summer my brother got married. His wift is the know-it-all sort, and i do my very best to put up with her, but sometimes the two of them combined brings me to tears.

Last weekend we went home to visit and show off my ring and basically let my mom get some of her excitement out of her for a minute (I can't even explain how happy she is.) I had to listen to brother and SIL tell me all about everything I should avoid and how they know everything about planning weddings now. You should have seen the looks on their faces when I talked about making paper flowers

thanks GabriellaDesign @ etsy.com

I mean really? These are just gorgeous, and I like the slightly cartoony feel to them. I've always been artsy anyway, why wouldn't I incorporate that into our special day. I think they'd be even more fun with a printed paper, and variety of color and texture.

Anyway the day before yesterday I asked my brother how much the total was for their wedding, the whole shabang honeymoon and all over 33K. I know I really shouldn't have asked, but i was sort of curious, they were pretty traditional about the whole thing, and I've always been pretty untraditional about everything. When I tell him we're trying to do it for $10,000 it's completely unfathomable to him (and most likely his wife also) and he spends a good half hour trying to tell me how expensive everything is and that what I'm planning is impossible. He even goes so far as to tell me that their reception site was free (except for the $65 a head they paid for food cake cutting and dj-not including the booze, and for 150 people.) Then yesterday he texts me with the figures for the rings (13K) dress (1.5K) etc. I'm super mad and I ask nicely for him to please stop being such a skeptic and try being supportive and stop bragging, and he tells me he's just being realistic. Meaning that I'm not being realistic. Thank god for best friends, cause I was ready to drive 3 hours to punch himin the face. She calmed me down in about five minutes, and cheered me up, especially after I told her that I'm planning on $50 on sale off the rack dressed for the brides maids.

I'm through with venting, and I'm absolutely serious about the brides maid dresses. People talk about brides maid dresses that they can actually wear again, what baloney. How many formal occasions do you go to a year? I bought a dress that I loved on super sale last year and the first time I wore it was the night my fiance proposed (that was 2 weeks ago.) I need to figure out who the other 2 girls are going tobe before I decide anything about dresses though. Something like this...





Though this is probably a bit more than we want to spend. Also I'd add a red sash.

Okay that's it for today. Happy planning to you.