Comments on: Trends vs. Super Awesome Ideas

By: christy

christy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:33:26 +0000

Love this! I know I sometimes feel a twinge not only if everyone else is doing something, but if ANYone else is doing it. Which is ridiculous! My mother likes to remind me that there's nothing new under the sun–except for each of us. xo!

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:00:58 +0000

My hubby & I were hitched in 2001 & sent out photobooth strip wedding announcements & took our wedding photos on a paper moon set which we constructed the night before.

I do get a pang everytime I see similiar ideas being used, because these choices were uniquely "us" & meaningful at the time–We took pics in a photobooth on our first date & met building sets for stage

Oh well, ain't no thing. I still got the man!

By: teresa vigil

teresa vigil — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:40:16 +0000

Hey we took this picture! the cake was perfect, hands down the wedding was a smash!

By: Sandee

Sandee — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:14:13 +0000

This picture is of my wedding cake, actually. A lot of people at my wedding didn't like it, but I didn't care. I did! If other people have done it, I don't care. If it's trendy, I don't care. It was perfect for us and thats all that mattered.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:05:26 +0000

My fiance and I have decided to "elope with permission", hahaha. He called my dad and asked if he could marry me (of course my dad said yes). Our families haven't met, and we decided that a wedding may not be the best time. So we've decided on a private ceremony. All of our friends are either freshly married, or engaged, so when we decided to get married there was a feeling of "hopping on the bandwagon", but we've had several discussions about just that, and that was one of the biggest reasons that made us want a private ceremony(we call it our 007 wedding). We decided that this is our life, and while we would love to celebrate with our friends, it means too much to us to stress about the small stuff.

By: Kit

Kit — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:03:52 +0000

Ah, yes. I once killed a man for saying I was an 'orange' personality type: rebellion purely for the sake of rebellion. But, hey, rebellion is fun, and once you put yourself through hell being yourself against all odds, conforming to even one real-life trope just gags you.
Fortunately, even if every decor aspect of your wedding was as cookie cutter as the next, even if you rented all the same must-haves as your SIL a month before, your wedding is different because it's you. We hear this a lot and dismiss it since it's so obvious and a platitude, but think of cookie cutter weddinged brides: would you say their weddings were less special because they were average? Of course not! The specialness was their feelings on that day, inspired by their husband their likes, even if their likes came from their expectations of weddings. The feeling you get from a peacock-themed wedding is pretty much the same as the one my FSIL gets from being 'a wed-in-white bride", and it's inevitable that someone's done a peacock wedding, but it wasn't yours just as hers, much as it may look it, isn't the same as her mother's, much as her mother may try to make it so.

What I'm saying is, rejoice in having people to score porn off of!

By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:35:56 +0000

Aw, that's so sweet! I wish I'd known about this site when I was planning my wedding. Was it up and running in 2007? Probably. I wish I'd googled harder! Admittedly, I was a Knot bride. I was admonished from time to time for my more offbeat wedding by some of the "knotties" but I always took it as a compliment.

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:47:39 +0000

One thing that I read somewhere that really resonated with me was (basically), 'It may seem like a trend and that everyone is doing it, but really, how many people that come to your wedding are perusing wedding planning sites and know that it is a trend? Most likely only you. To everyone else it will just be your wedding, with all the cool things you decide to include.' Reading that made the lightbulb go off. I don't care if 'eveyone'is doing it anymore. If I want it or like it, then I gonna do it!

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:46:34 +0000

Also, it's your wedding. Who cares if it's been done before. What matters is that it's special to you. It will always be "Unique" in that it's the ceremony uniting you and the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. No one else's will be the same, no matter what elements are similar, because it isn't you and the person you love. That's what your wedding is about, and that's what makes it special.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:36:04 +0000

Truer words were never….written? I just always thought I was the only one,the freak, the (dare I say) renegade (LOL) that didn't want the traditional white dress, white cake, white, white, white. We've lived together for 6 years, have 2 kids – the jig is up, the virginal white isn't for me!